Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 3rd March 2013

flyinggiraffe_2

Sunday: bought a cheese scone and 2 malteser bunnies on the train home £2.75 BUT friend of mother giraffe gave me £20 for a cake i made for her a couple weeks ago.

£2.75/10.00

Made £20.00

MissE001

Day 1 of the week and not off to a great start......

I forgot to include Mother's Day pressie in my budget.....I'm going to aim to keep to my original plan though

£14 / £65 so far

beth3735

MissE you just reminded me i need a Mothers day card and send my dad £10 to buy my mum something from me!! Then my in laws birthday and my dads next week! These events just pop up don't they lol

EverTheOptimist

beth3735 wrote: »

Well today i took in 3 bags full of clothes to the clothes bank for 50p a kilo, Could of got alot more on Ebay but tbh sick of seeing it all now. So Made £12 at the start of the week was handy!

Sun - £1/£60 (used the £12 made today for most of this)

flyinggiraffe wrote: »

Sunday: bought a cheese scone and 2 malteser bunnies on the train home £2.75 BUT friend of mother giraffe gave me £20 for a cake i made for her a couple weeks ago.

£2.75/10.00

Made £20.00

Now I know it's in line with the MSE way but can people stop making money as it really confuses me when you declare and I have to log it on page 1. :rotfl::rotfl:
Please just stick to spending it.

MissE001

beth3735 wrote: »

MissE you just reminded me i need a Mothers day card and send my dad £10 to buy my mum something from me!! Then my in laws birthday and my dads next week! These events just pop up don't they lol

Glad to help....sorry it'll cost money though

I agree it feels like these things crop up - trying to be very MSE and have budgets for lots of big bills that I pay into monthly. I've got a Christmas budget but never really thought about a birthday, anniversary, mother/father's day budget -doh!

Think I'll go off and jiggle about some spreadsheets :cool:

abundant1972

Hi all,

Am officially writing this week off!!!

Went for my food shop at the weekend and after a failed trawl of Poundland and 99p Store I clocked up £126 in a regular store... It was double nectar point weekend - but as my planned food budget for the month was only £80 I've kind of blown it... That said - I stocked up on stuff like condiments which are expensive, and laundry liquid etc...No real bad stuff other than a bottle of wine, some crisps and a couple of bags of sweets. So mostly healthy stuff... just LOTS of it.

From here on in I'm just going to try and stay within my 'other spend' budget. I had planned for £40 fuel... but when filling it annoyingly went to £40.03!!! My OCD wouldn't let me stick at that and had to round it up to the nearest £5!!! (so spent £45).

I need to learn to do weekly shops!!! I just find it hard - especially if there are offers on with food I always eat... I seem to go into overdrive and spend like I'm preparing for a famine! I do comfort eat/buy too... so maybe need to look at what I'm compensating for at the moment...

Anyway - sorry for the EPIC fail... Will be on strict damage limitation this week now - and aiming for no spend days through until weekend...

:A

beth3735

Morning all

Well considering i am still yet to be able to spend my £60 budget properly as i don't get paid till tomorrow i can see today being a very small spend day! This budgeting with no money is good for limiting your spending though lol. I have £1 in my purse for today, but we don't need anything at all, so should be ok till tomorrow.

Hope you all have a good day

Verityemilia

Hoping for a good week this week

SUN - NSD :j
MON - NSD ... Kept myself busy painting
TUES - Bus Fare £3.40, Library Printouts £1, Coffee £1.50
WEDS - NSD
THURS - NSD
FRI - NSD

Thats the plan

EverTheOptimist

Evening all

Sunday - £10 on lunch, £25 on petrol, £29.75 on groceries.
Monday - NSD :j

But will be spending tomorrow.

abundant1972

Hey all..

A NSD today for me... and put in for some overtime to reap back my massive overspend!!! I will get back within budget if it kills me!!!

:eek: