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What have / will you spend today? Monday May 21st

Good morning...

It's 5 long days until payday, and I have £4 to my name, which will be spent today on washing powder, potatoes and veg. If OH is lucky it may stretch to a packet of sugar free Jelly, too! It'll be my first payday with new payrise, and it cannot come soon enough.

Yes, £4 ish for me. Keep it low everyone x
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  • Coolmum66
    Coolmum66 Posts: 145 Forumite
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    Morning all

    Now into my 2nd week as a non smoker (sorry is this on the wrong thread?)
    So WON'T be buying cigs.

    Five days till payday - but still £20 in bank!!

    Hoping for a nsd today
    Debt at 2nd LBM (!) Jun 08 £8,435 - hm, let's not go there!!
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  • ani*fan
    ani*fan Posts: 1,554 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi everyone

    I'm going for a no spend day. 7 days 'til payday, £15 left and going to try and hang onto it all week.

    Good luck everyone:D
    If you know you have enough, you're rich. ;)
  • angelavdavis
    angelavdavis Posts: 4,714 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    We have been living out of the storecupboard for the last few weeks but the time has now come to get some food shopping done at Lidl today.

    Am just doing a quick check on the freezer/fridge/cupboards to see what we need.

    On the upside though we won't need any salads as I have harvested the latest from the garden.

    But I reckon the damage is likely to be to the tune of about £70.
    :D Thanks to MSE, I am mortgage free!:D
  • Today has been expensive already!

    £18.30 for weekly train tickets - but saves me a £5 ultimately
    Got to collect some clothes I had altered as well, not sure how much that will be.

    Lunch made at home though so I intend to spend very little the rest of the week - here's hoping :beer:
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Glad I'm not the only one on a very strict budget till payday (Thurs for me)! Have spent 90p on bus fare, probably same on way home - I had thought that taking bus fares out of my weekly budget would make me walk more but I seem to be knackered all the time at the moment, so it just means I spend the money on buses and buy less other unnecessary bits and pieces.. still spending less I suppose! :confused:

    Probably pick up a few bits of veg on the way home but not spending more than a couple of quid.
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • betti911
    betti911 Posts: 819 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Hopefully a NSD today.
    Jan 1st 07 Car loan £4830.46@12% Personal Loan £11,517@8% variable Overdraft £1500 July 2009Halifax-£0Debt free date 14th July 2009 :j
  • vixtress
    vixtress Posts: 1,153 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Coolmum66 wrote: »
    Morning all

    Now into my 2nd week as a non smoker (sorry is this on the wrong thread?)
    So WON'T be buying cigs.

    Five days till payday - but still £20 in bank!!

    Hoping for a nsd today
    well done to you!! i stopped nine years ago, stick with its worth it!!

    hoping to just put £10 diesel in the car today and nothing else
    - prior planning prevents poor performance!

    May Grocery challenge £150 136/150
  • Skint_Catt
    Skint_Catt Posts: 11,548 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    :hello: Hi all,

    Will probably need petrol on way home - £25
    Def need chocolate at lunchtime plus Diet Coke maybe - £2

    That's it for me! Been at work from 8am - will be here til 6pm and will go straight to bed when I get home!
  • Morning all!

    Already spent £2 on magazines as I had Jury duty thought it would a long day.

    Got there paid £1 for parking and got excused! :mad:
    Isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't?
  • Gemmzie
    Gemmzie Posts: 14,876 Forumite
    Nada

    Not leaving the house today, solid revision all day
    No longer using this account for new posts from 2013
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