Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 16th December 2012

Lottie1987

Morning everyone! Had to edit some of my previous posts as I had a made a few miscalculations which left me thinking I had more than I actually did and then started panicking when I found I had £10.00 missing.

Spends for yesterday: £5.70 (train for work), 60p (paper), £6.15 (apples, tape, shower gel and toilet roll), £1.00 (OH)

Totals so far: £59.83/70.00 (£10.17 to last the week)

Rising - I hope everything goes OK for you today

Have a good day everyone xxx

Munchin

Morning all:)

Sun - £1.50 paper
Mon - NSD
Tues - £7 groceries (had hoped for an NSD but hey ho)
Wed - £24.05 Xmas dinner:)

Total - £32.55/£50

On track so far so fingers and toes crossed for today and tomorrow:D

rising_from_the_ashes

Well - pleased to say my scan happened today

Budget wise .... errrr it's gone a bit to pot

Fuel: £22.00 / £30
Groceries: £49 / £30
Misc: £5.80 / £15 (incl £5 hospital)

Total: £76.80 / £75
Change to pots: 50p x 1 + 20p x 2

Stopped at the big Mr A on the way back from the hospital (always a bad move!) - and ended up stocking up on the odd thing that the one near me doesn't sell (it's only a wee one where I live).

Anyway, should have enough to last next week, which is the good news ... but the budget is bust this week and there's still a day to go!

flyinggiraffe_2

£2.20 Bus fare
£5.25 lunch at the pub
£2.20 Bus fare
£4.00 lunch at pub (I see a theme this week! Too many depts in my office going to lunch and as a "interloper" to many departments I've been invited to all lunches)


£13.45/£20.00

EverTheOptimist

flyinggiraffe wrote: »

Hi everyone, back after a lovely holiday. Saw the Northern Lights 3 times and it was magical! Shame I can't afford a camera with all the bells and whistles on to capture them, but at least I have the memories and a sore head from too many late nights drinking in Reykjavik!

Missed this earlier in the week. Sounds like you had a lovely time. I would love to see the Northern Lights, my hubby has seen them... so jealous. Don't think we'll be doign anything so glamourous for a while.

EverTheOptimist

Few spends over the last couple of days.

W/C 16th Dec
Groceries - £35 - Spent £22.30 & 60p
Petrol - £25 - Spent £25.10 :mad: i went 1p over and took all my willpower not to go up to the next £1.
Meal out on weds - £20 - should be less - spent £7
Friends house on weds - £5 - bottle of lemonade for a £1 should do, but in case i make it the pub later on, i can get one drink!!!! - Spent £5.99 - took bottle of wine instead of nibbles, and a lemonade.
Misc - £15 - Birthday and Anniversary cards to buy plus other misc. stuff - Spent £3.71 & £1.61

£66.21 / £100

I have spent a random £7.60 on other stuff and i cant remember where, been hunting for receipts.

ETA - I've sussed it out.... I had £20 in my purse, bought £22.30 of groceries using bank card, = £42.30 then only took out £50 cash to make my weekly budget. = £92.30. However that has left me £7.60 short, so that's where it is.

Lottie1987

ETO - Glad to hear it wasn't just me who couldn't balance the books this week. Tell you, it's a good thing I don't work in a bank

Spends for yesterday:
£5.70 (train to work), £2.75 (magazine)

Totals so far: £68.28/£70.00 (£1.72 left)

Got works Xmas do tonight which is all paid for. :j

Have a good day everyone xxx

rising_from_the_ashes

Think I'm going to try (another) new tactic next week .... I will get this sussed one of these days!

I'm going to exclude fuel - my budget is £30/week and I tend to always come in around that mark so not really one of the budgets I need to worry about!

It's def Groceries and the Misc spends that are my problem areas!:o

Misc spends will be getting chopped right down as I've now managed to set a revised budget for the Bus Fund ... and reach it :T so don't need to put money into that tin anymore!

Will be pondering on new tactics over the next couple of days!

flyinggiraffe_2

£2.20 Bus fare
£5.25 lunch at the pub
£2.20 Bus fare
£4.00 lunch at pub
£2.20 Bus fare

(Boss paid for the office to get takeout for lunch! So shocked)

£15.65/£20.00

Going to reassess my budgeting. There must be a weekly bus

rising_from_the_ashes

flyinggiraffe wrote: »

There must be a weekly bus

Def worth looking into - I've been trying to put a bit aside for the bus (get this if there's loads of snow as very rural & huge hills all around me:eek:) and discovered that I could get a 10 journey ticket for £14 - when it's £2 / journey so that's a pretty good saving.

These are also good as they're usually valid for a reasonable amount of time (3 months or so) so it doesn't matter if you're not going to use it everyday