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The Unneccesary Challenge

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  • pippo
    pippo Posts: 3,891 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I have a great job.. no spends for lunch if I eat with the service users!!!!
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  • beanielou
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    Pippo
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  • ShirleyPark_2
    ShirleyPark_2 Posts: 870 Forumite
    Arghhh the person selling those tarten DM's in my size for £15 have just reduced them to £12 !!! I wonder, in a couple of weeks will they be reduced down to £10 and then I can spend my entire week's money on them...
    Debts: Mum £3923 0% APR
  • ShirleyPark_2
    ShirleyPark_2 Posts: 870 Forumite
    ((((pippo))))

    She sounds like a wonderful woman.
    Debts: Mum £3923 0% APR
  • slowlyfading
    slowlyfading Posts: 13,429 Forumite
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    -hugs- pippo, thinking of you x
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  • brassiclint
    brassiclint Posts: 123 Forumite
    ShirleyPark wrote: »
    Arghhh the person selling those tarten DM's in my size for £15 have just reduced them to £12 !!! I wonder, in a couple of weeks will they be reduced down to £10 and then I can spend my entire week's money on them...

    can't you save £2 from this week and use all of next weeks on them??
    Total debt as of May 2007: Tesco [STRIKE]£8499.65[/STRIKE] £7,333.57;
    Total Savings as of March 2007: Egg Money [STRIKE]£59.97[/STRIKE]£64.97; Wedding Fund [STRIKE]£700[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£1172[/STRIKE]     £1900
    The Unneccessary Challenge £0/£10
    Snowballing [STRIKE]£8499.65[/STRIKE] £7333.57. Debt Free Date [STRIKE]November '09 [/STRIKE] [STRIKE]September '09 [/STRIKE] May '09- gonna try my hardest to make it sooner

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  • ShirleyPark_2
    ShirleyPark_2 Posts: 870 Forumite
    brassiclint wrote: »
    can't you save £2 from this week and use all of next weeks on them??

    Probably... but I already have lots of pairs of DMs..... but it is tempting.... I might see what the lowest is she'll go on them.

    Have £2.87 from the other week. Plus still some from this week, and I just sold another book on amazon...
    Debts: Mum £3923 0% APR
  • Penny2myName
    Penny2myName Posts: 1,605 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    well i have managed my first non spend 24hrs, then again i have been completely avoiding the shops whilst using up all i could that i had in.Tomorrow I must do the shopping, so will sort my £10 out then and see how long i can NOT break into it once its out of the bank.
    19th March 2007 LBM£5,969.63 1st January 2018 £5960.18, 1st January 2019 £11,032.0018th August 2023 £12,435.00, Student Loan £22244.00 From 2009-12Challenges: To learn to stop spending..
  • pippo
    pippo Posts: 3,891 Forumite
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    Thank you all for your kind words re my mum!!!
    I have been out and spent another £3.95!!!!
    BUT - still within my £10.00.
    So tomorrow or maybe today I will be a real (virtual) person again!
  • Kaz2904
    Kaz2904 Posts: 5,797 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I think I need to sit down and work this out from my previous posts.
    We've been doing this challenge for 3 weeks so I have spent all of "My £50 budget" until next 22nd + my unnecessary spends. So theoretically @£10 per week I should have no money until the 24th June!
    MIL did offer to put some money towards the sat nav for my birthday but keeps saying "If you'd rather have clothes then that's ok"- I don't but she's not getting the hint!!!
    Debt: 16/04/2007:TOTAL DEBT [strike]£92727.75[/strike] £49395.47:eek: :eek: :eek: £43332.28 repaid 100.77% of £43000 target.
    MFiT T2: Debt [STRIKE]£52856.59[/STRIKE] £6316.14 £46540.45 repaid 101.17% of £46000 target.
    2013 Target: completely clear my [STRIKE]£6316.14[/STRIKE] £0 mortgage debt. £6316.14 100% repaid.
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