How much have/will you spend and sunday to friday challenge - 22th april

lynsayjane

afternoon darling dfw's, apologies for the lateness of the thread but I decided to go to the cinema even tho I didn't get my essay done last night. my bad! Saw blades of glory and it is soooooo funny, highly recommend it!

anyway, I'm yet to work out how much I spent this week, if I'm over budget it's by the skin of my teeth as I *think* I've been good this week

here's last week's targets,

1. lynsayjane £35 £36.25
2. slowlyfading £20
3. pap £120 £139.18
4. babes21 £60 £50.92
5. rachelmk £22
6. ciara2712 £10 £9.65
7. beemuzed £10
8. rog2 £50
9. catowen £5
10. janey30 £15
11. f85 £20 £19.40
12. beanielou £10
13. savvykaz £75 £65.30
14. vixtress £30
15. gemmzie £10 £9
16. scaredycat £20
17. maisiem £10
18. livinginhope £5
19. skintcatt £45 £63.33

and now for a word form our sponser

'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 anythng else.

The reason the challenge is up to Friday is that I like to give myself a day off the counting and let my hair down a bit'


I'll report back shortly once I have my final total for the week and next weeks targets, lets see lots of green people!!!

well I spent a total of £36.25 so £1.25 over budget, knew it was close!!! oh and today is a nsd, used my cinema card and took munchies with me so free movie

for next week's budget I'm saying £0 for food (did a big shop yesterday and shouldn't need anything) and I've put £5 in my purse but actually aiming for a no spend week!

WelshWoofer

Well my effort to spend only £22 plus petrol didn't go too badly - ended up with around £5 left - well chuffed.
I have just over £20 in my purse so I'm saying £20 for this week.

I have plenty of food in (did a big shop yesterday) and am not travelling with work this week so should be an easy week for petrol and extras.

Good luck to everyone,
R

redsquirrel80

I'll join in this week - budget of £10 from today till end of the day on Thursday (going away for long weekend from Friday so will be letting my hair down a day early ) - this is to include bus fares as I'm trying to encourage myself to walk more, and it's more motivation if the money's coming out of my 'extras' budget.

Have a good week all :beer:

postingalwaysposting

hiya lynsay, well my budget last week was £120.00 and i spent £139.18 i am not too worried though as i had a great time and thats all that matters... this week i have budget of £13.80, i have taken £10 out of the wall and i have the remainder of the change in my purse. Today i have done a small shop though,

lemonade ~ 39p
carrier bag ~ 3p
my surface wipes ~ 1.49
fromage frais * 2 ~ 38p
jelly beans ~ 44p
rubber gloves ~ 69p

total = £3.42

this then takes my budget down to £10.38 which is fine as i have the week off work and i have only got to get some of my face stuff and crickets, so thats not too bad

have a great week all, and thanks again lynsay for holding fort :T

sans_2

Hi all,

I think I'll budget £50 for this week as I don't have anything planned.

Todays spend (so far) £1.48 as DH paid 1/2

NOTW paper (£0 as I used a free paper voucher)
whole chicken (reduced)
mince (reduced)

Purpleroses

aftenoon all!
I have 35p left of my budget. think i'll go for £10 again this week.

cattie1

I'm not in the challenge but I spent £7.48 in tesco (nappies and stuff for tea)
and going to the pub up the street straight from work but only taking £6 to spend!:o

f85

Afternoon everbody :hello:

Total spend for the week was £19.40, so just within £20 budget :j

Would have been well within it had it not been for £13.70 on prescription charges on Thursday.

This week I'll challenge myself and reduce my budget to £12.00.

Starting off with a NSD for Sunday!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

F

lynsayjane

pleased to see the greens outnumbering the reds so far, btu also that those of us that overspent were relatively close to the mark too so :T well done everyone!

f85, thats a lot of money for scripts, have you thought about a pre payment certificate? I know for some folk that works out cheaper

cattie, pub sounds good, might join you

pap, you are most welcome, anything that prevents me having to do my essays (am actually more than half finished the first tho :j )

welcome along redsquirrel! walking is very good for you so good luck with it!

pixie1

OK I would like to join in this week, may budget will be £20 for this week. As Im broke, this shouldnt be that hard!

Fingers crossed & have a great week everyone.

Pixie

postingalwaysposting

lynsayjane wrote: »

pleased to see the greens outnumbering the reds so far, btu also that those of us that overspent were relatively close to the mark too so :T well done everyone!

f85, thats a lot of money for scripts, have you thought about a pre payment certificate? I know for some folk that works out cheaper

cattie, pub sounds good, might join you

pap, you are most welcome, anything that prevents me having to do my essays (am actually more than half finished the first tho :j )

welcome along redsquirrel! walking is very good for you so good luck with it!

no no no no no... get back to it miss' come back when its finished