2013 Frugal Living Challenge

Becky_2

:wave:Gretchen2012, welcome to this thread.

Hope your car boot sales today is going well. Good luck with this challenge.

Becky_2

pixiehouse, great news that your husband is feeling better and back at work. Hope it goes well with changing the fostering agency

Gretchen2012

Car boot was a bit of a let down really. Brought the books DVDs and CDs home so I can try and sell them on line.

I must sit down and sort my budget out so I can be ready for Monday.

Frugaldom

Just checking in to see how things are going, if anyone wants added to the list of challengers, all the details are included at the start of the thread. I won't add any names without being instructed directly, as this has led to problems in the past.

Hope everyone is doing well and you always know where I am if needed. Fast approaching the 9th month of this year's challenge, so us old regulars are back to winter preps and preserves.

littleskintdragon

I love this thread I subscribed at the beginning of the year, and read up all the time.

I have just finished work for maternity leave, baby due in 12 days :eek:

Trying to decide whether to 'officially' join or try the last three months of the year out, was thinking: £1200 for food, fuel, clothes, and other, so £400 a month, and then an extra £300 for other bits like xmas, birthdays etc. so thats £1500 for the rest of the year, which is basically all of my maternity pay

How does that sound to u experts? I don't want to set unrealistic budgets and fail badly, otherwise I'll give up.

All the bills will come out of dh's pay, but will still be tight. I'm waiting for some contracts to come to an end so that they can be cancelled (phones etc) and my car will be paid off next year and will not be replaced for the sake of it.

We're pretty good here with stuff, but following this will definately give me the nudge I need!

mummy-of-2-boys

i've lost track already of how much we have spent so will be starting again as of beginning of sept and have taken so much off my original budget per how many weeks so my budget amount is lower to make up for the last 4 weeks that i haven't counted ... hope that makes sense.

can't believe we are nearly in sept. i need to find myself a little notebook out to keep track of my spends.... i had 2 the other day wonder where i have put them xxx
when does the thread for 2014 get put up ......

Gretchen2012

I'm in hopefully. I've sent a message to join. My budget for the rest of the year is £1500. That's for me and DD (12). She will be a teenager before Christmas so have also budgeted for her birthday.

Roll on Monday. Lets get this started lol.

Frugaldom

Good morning! I have just updated the challenger list to welcome Mummy-of-2-boys and Gretchen2012 onboard the good ship Frugaldom. Glad you ladies could join us and I wish you every success with your budgets and intro to frugal life. Have fun frugaling!

mummy-of-2-boys

NSD for me yesterday (30/08/13) hope its the first of many hope everyone is well. thank you to frugaldom for adding me to the list

mummy-of-2-boys

NSD again for me yesterday and today .... thats 3 in a row so far ! i need to get milk tomorrow and maybe bread ... nothing else though apart from paying provident the usual £20 ... hoping we dont spend more than £25 tomorrow including provident