Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 7th April 2013

flyinggiraffe_2

Hi ETO thanks for the thread

Hope ,everyone else has had a good weekend.

May I pledge £50 this week please?

Sunday: sudafed and tart tins £7.55

£7.55/£50.00 so far.

No plans to go anywhere, and busy baking oodles of treats for a hen tea party each evening so hopefully will be a cheap one

32b3in2013

Just bought my lunch for the week so my total is £9.96/£50

shinner

Hi thanks ETO can i go for £75 for this week please NSD for me today 7.5 miles on a walk today no shops on the route ! Shattered children lol

Trajal

KNOWN PITFALLS this week:

1) Alcohol - I will struggle to have NSD's because I do like a tipple in the evening. However I will spend £5 on a bottle of wine rather than £30-£40 in the pub buying drinks for other people as well as myself!

2) Thursday - My regular 2 weekly meetings in Nottingham, very easy to jump into a cab to the office from the station rather than do the walk. I will do the walk. Thursday will be an NSD. Massive challenge for me, but I can do it.

3) Breakfast every day - the staff restaurant does beautifully cooked everything and it's cheap, but that's not the name of the game for me. I've got cereal, bread, crumpets, croissant, everything I could possibly need. I will NOT buy breakfast any day this week.

4) Expensive coffees. No vanilla spiced lattees for me, I can make coffee for free either at home or in my office, I will not use our inhouse starbucks!

(Bit of personal resolve here, apologies, just spelling it out so that I can stick to it)

AGirlWrites

A NSD for me today and i've said no to my weekly Nandos before the cinema tomorrow (I have a Cineworld Unlimited card so I go to the cinema at least once or twice a week, but it only costs me the £14.99 direct debit - that is if I avoid the slush I like to get!!).

Starting as I mean to go on!

Trajal

NSD for me today too. Heading to bed within next 30 minutes, meetings in the morning, need to get up early and eat breakfast at home!

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi ETO

Just thought I'd say I'm going away for the weekend of the 27th lol so I have to remember to include money for the weekend ;o) Half on Saturday and other half on Sunday for the following week ;o) Thought I'd put this here to remind myself too lol!

Cheers
Casper
xx

bt1

Hi! Last week was a write off and I'm determined to be extra good this week. My bro's girlfriend had her baby last week and I may of gone a little ott on presents etc lol. I also had a dentist appointment and had to pay £50 for a small filling! I thought it was only going to be £18! Grrrr!

Total for last week was

£69/£30

:eek:

Ok. My plan for this week is to spend NOTHING Sunday to Friday! I know this is really unrealistic, but I've gone mad last week and I have nothing I really need this week.

So my limit for the week is £5 - to be spent on Saturday for film snacks with bf

So plan for this week:

• Take lunch in everyday
• Take extra snacks/food/drinks on the days I have college
• Try to stay in at lunches to stay away from shops

So far:
Sun -NSD

EverTheOptimist

Sun - NSD :j:j:j finally

Hope everyone has a good week.

I always think it helps to have my plan written on here, because then I am not only kidding me but lying to you guys if I don't stick to it, or don't declare everything which I don't want to do.

That said I might swap Monday and Tuesdays plans, as I need to do some stuff after work tomorrow which means I won't have time to do the top up shop. I'll see how tomorrow goes.

MissE001

Trajal wrote: »

KNOWN PITFALLS this week:

1) Alcohol - I will struggle to have NSD's because I do like a tipple in the evening. However I will spend £5 on a bottle of wine rather than £30-£40 in the pub buying drinks for other people as well as myself!

2) Thursday - My regular 2 weekly meetings in Nottingham, very easy to jump into a cab to the office from the station rather than do the walk. I will do the walk. Thursday will be an NSD. Massive challenge for me, but I can do it.

3) Breakfast every day - the staff restaurant does beautifully cooked everything and it's cheap, but that's not the name of the game for me. I've got cereal, bread, crumpets, croissant, everything I could possibly need. I will NOT buy breakfast any day this week.

4) Expensive coffees. No vanilla spiced lattees for me, I can make coffee for free either at home or in my office, I will not use our inhouse starbucks!

(Bit of personal resolve here, apologies, just spelling it out so that I can stick to it)

They all seem do-able Trajal - hope you don't feel too deprived. I know what you mean about sharing on here - helps to keep us on the straight and narrow :A