Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 23rd September 2012

EverTheOptimist

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Weekly Spend Challenge. This challenge is open to anybody, no matter what financial place they are in.

On this thread please post an amount of money you wish to stay below within the week (Sunday to end of working day on Friday). This can be pennies or thousands it depends on the individual. Then next Saturday report back and pledge for the following week. The challenge runs from Sunday to Friday so we don't include Saturdays but feel free to change the rules to suit you and include Saturdays or start on a different day.

Feel free to update this thread with daily spends if that keeps you on track. We colour code the results as below:

Green - within budget
Red - overbudget
Purple - zero spend
Orange - made money over the week

This is a little bit of fun but for many it highlights the fact that maybe that magazine/chocolate bar isn't needed. Hopefully your spending habits can be changed forever.

Moozie was the founder of this challenge and here is a quote taken from her:

Originally Posted by Moozie:
"Good afternoon lovely DFWs Now for anyone looking in, please feel free to join - the more the merrier! Basically, decide on the amount you want to spend up to from Sunday until the end of the working day on Friday then pledge it here and off we go! The challenge is about incidental spending and not for stuff that should be budgeted elsewhere such as bills, groceries, debt repayment etc but you decide what to include at the end - this is about changing your habits and improving your recording of your spends more than anything else. Have a great week everyone and keep it low!!! Moozie x"

W/C 16th September 2012 Challengers / Pledges / Total Spent

EverTheOptimist - £35 / £41.48
Lottie1987 - £70 / £50.09
Learning2budget - £20
abundant1972 - £50 / £159.77
Oopsadaisydoddle - £50 / £37.73
Baileys Babe - £5
Heffi1 - £25
Flyinggiraffe - £20 / £3.95
katy_ann - £15
shezam - £30 / £56

W/ C 23rd September 2012 Challengers / Pledges / Total Spent

EverTheOptimist - £25
Flyinggiraffe - £40
abundant1972 - £20
Oopsadaisydoddle - £40
optimistic-mummy - £250
Munchin - £40
chesteroo - £30
Lottie1987 - £70
sharronej - £6
Learning2budget - £5

Good luck everyone

optimistic-mummy

hi, my budget for next week is £250 to include everything except debt repayments ... looks high but i have my fortnightly bills to pay and a food shop to do... heres my breakdown

Food £100/£0
Petrol £20/£0
Elec £30/£0
Gas £20/£0
LO's clothes £20/£0
Tv licence £12/£0
Water £12/£0
Family member £20/£0
Other £6/£0
Curtains and lightshade off fb £10/£0
Total £250.00

Munchin

Morning all

I'm back again:). Can you put me down for £40 please and hopefully that should be enough for the week.

flyinggiraffe_2

Thanks for starting the thread.

Need to leave the house to get weekly shop and I've got the urge to do some baking! Going to try and avoid buying any new kitchenware (total weakness of mine!)

chesteroo

Hi I am a newbie and would love to join this challenge. I have £30 in my purse at the moment so my challenge is to make this last :T

oopsadaisydoddle

Put me down for £40 this week please. Good luck everyone.x

EverTheOptimist

Welcome chesteroo :wave:

Just post as little or as much as you want or need to. I often post as it makes me think about what i am spending if i have to report back.

I have a couple of spends planned for the week. But will see if i can keep it low. Out for tea tomorrow evening so need to choose something cheap!!!

Have a good week all. and Good luck everyone.

flyinggiraffe_2

Spent £27.98 already. Saw True Blood series 1 for a tenner, then got Big Bang theory series 5 for £12 and bought Pringles and chocolate with the rest!

optimistic-mummy

chesteroo wrote: »

Hi I am a newbie and would love to join this challenge. I have £30 in my purse at the moment so my challenge is to make this last :T

welcome :hello:

oopsadaisydoddle

chesteroo wrote: »

Hi I am a newbie and would love to join this challenge. I have £30 in my purse at the moment so my challenge is to make this last :T

Hi and welcome! I'm only a newbie on this thread and I've found it a great help over the last couple of weeks. We used to spend loads on - well I'm not sure! But now, we don't seem to spend much at all! I'm sure there'll be weeks where we'll go over but I'm going to use any underspend from previous weeks to fund that!

I'm going out for tea on weds with my friends and I imagine that will cost but I have £13.37 from last week to put towards it so hopefully won't be much more.

I know it sounds awful but I really don't fancy going - mainly because I suffer from IBS and a lot of food makes me bloating and uncomfortable and also my sis has just been diagnosed as coeliac and she thinks I might be the same as her. I have very similar symptoms that my GP just assumed was IBS. I was going to start cutting out gluten just to see if it helped!! Oops that was a ramble, sorry.

NSD for us today - been to sainsburys but that was included in our groceries!

Also going to eBay some things tonight in the hope of getting some PayPal funds for when I need things.xx

Munchin

Evening everyone,

I'm not planning on leaving the house for the rest of the night so today is an NSD:D.