Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 24th February 2013

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi!

Thanks ETO for starting us off again this week.

What a hectic week that was! I managed to spend £9.53 of my allocated £10.00. Am happy with that but could have spent less! This week I'm allocating £8.00.

Thanks
Have a great weekend everyone!

Cheers
Casper
xx

beth3735

Morning all, 1st day of the budget and im taking my kids out for the day.

Money isn't coming out of this £30 budget though, Husband gave me some pennies for today as he has gone up to Wembley to watch the Swansea final football game. So going to enjoy today on him

Hope you all have a great day x

Lottie1987

Morning everyone.

ETO - thanks for doing the thread as always.

Total for last week - £69.66/£70.00 (34p to put in savings pot)

Would like to pledge £70.00 for this week.

Have a good weekend everyone xxx

bt1

Eeek :eek: already been a spend day for me! Went to shops and bought some clothes.. Used voucher but was slightly short so £1.50, thn me and bf ate lunch out so was another £3.30

So my NSD has turned into £4.80.. Not going cinema tomorrow so will save on snacks there!

New plan:
Sun - lunch and clothes = £4.80
Mon - Ipad sim = £7.50
Tue - NSD
Wed - NSD
Thu - payday!!! Lunch with work = £10
Fri - cinema (free tickets) will take snacks from home
Sat - NSD

Hopefully ill be good for rest of week and come in under budget

MissE001

Thanks for the shiny new thread ETO - you're an :A

Stayed under budget last week so £1.65 difference transferred to my VSP

Travelling with work this week which usually incurs extra expense.....I'm going to include anything that I can't claim back in my budget for this week.

Monday & Tuesday:
- spends at airport £5
- taxi fare from airport to hotel (can claim some but not all) £10
Wed
- coffee while waiting for DD - £1.60
Thu, Fri, Sat - NSDs hopefully

I'll round up to £20 for this week please. Posting in green to inspire me to keep to that colour all week

folam

Hi,

I managed to stay in budget last week £46.00/£48.00

This week I am going to try and stick to £20.00

Thanks

EverTheOptimist

Hi everyone.

First post updated to here.

Well bit of a disastrous start to the challenge week. Overspent on my grocery budget already, :eek::eek: which means I have dipped into weekly spend money, and will need small top up of bunny veg later in the week. So really not sure how I am going to manage. Really don't want to dip into savings.

Sunday - petrol £20, groceries £27.39. Ooops.
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - cinema - £?
Wednesday - NSD
Thursday - NSD
Friday - PAYDAY. Small top up, bun veg.
Saturday - paper £2.

Apart from bunny veg I have everything else I need for the week. So will try extra hard.

Hope everyone's had a good weekend.

beth3735

We would all be rich if we didn't have to eat or run a car wouldn't we

Kids enjoyed spending their dad's pennies today, so onto spending my own budget funds for the rest of the week, Nothing planned apart from needing to send £10 to my young sister in law for her birthday So thats a 3rd of my budget, so going to try and be good all week.

EverTheOptimist

beth3735 wrote: »

We would all be rich if we didn't have to eat or run a car wouldn't we

I know...

And for us it's only going to go up when bab arrives in May. Well grocery budget will, but hoping petrol will come down as planning on walking everywhere!

I just can't see how I can reduce my budgets much more but also actually live and enjoy myself. I am lucky that we don't have loads of debt, but really want to overpay the mortgage, take a years maternity leave and go back part time.

Wishful thinking....

Casperthefriendlyghost

Good evening

Well somehow this afternoon a bag of Percy Pigs "jumped" into my hands lol! Couldn't be mean and tell them off!:p

So!

Sunday: Spent £ 1.59

Cheers
Casper
xx