Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 11th August 2013

MissE001

Managed NSDs Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday......and spent £69.51 today! Petrol, groceries and haircut. I really need to include more in my budget for petrol - yuck!

Need NSDs tomorrow and Saturday to stay in budget - don't think I need anything so should be do-able if I avoid wants....

EverTheOptimist

2 more NSD's for me, in this challenge anyway. Still have £5.30 in my purse. :j

Hope everyone's had a good week.

flyinggiraffe_2

Tuesday: £94.99
Wednesday: £8.00 fat club (lost 2.5lbs this week), raffle tickets, charity contribution
Thursday: NSD
Friday: £14 dinner with potential boy shape (we split the bill)

£116.99

TigerLily7

Can I join the challenge? I've just managed to get remember my MSE password and have just been reading posts for ages. Oops.

I started a job in Central London last week and next week is my first full week there, I need to be super careful with my pennies.

Does anyone have any ideas of what a "good" budget would be for Central London? I want to include lunch and bits & pieces in mine. Do people include travel?

X

EverTheOptimist

Hi all

Just a quick post as I'm only on my phone, will start the new thread tomorrow when back on the iPad.

TigerLily - will answer your questions tomorrow as only on my phone. But welcome along to the challenge. :wave:

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi everyone

I had a great week! This week I managed to only spend £3.89
I'd like to pledge another £10.00 this week. Looking forward to the new thread

Thanks so much, hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Cheers
Casper
xx

MissE001

Stayed green at £69.51/£70

Going to fill up with petrol and get some groceries this morning - budget for the week will be whatever is left! :rotfl:

tinkermcjingles

I've done pretty rubbish this week and gone over again!

Monday NSD
Tuesday NSD
Wednesday - £13 nails and £2 pub (nails is not normal for me, last time was about 3 years ago! but was off to a wedding so wanted them pretty and as I don't normally do girly, was easier to go and get them done by someone!)
Thursday - £1.24 - goodies from the shop to get me through work!
Friday - NSD
Saturday - £7.50 on a mascara and some clips (had additional money for wedding but was very good and kept within that £30 budget!)
Sunday - £2.98 for drink from the shop and some goodies - forgot to bring my drink with me to work :-(

This has put me into the red! booooooooooo £26.72/£25

I will do better next week!

EverTheOptimist

TigerLily7 wrote: »

Can I join the challenge? I've just managed to get remember my MSE password and have just been reading posts for ages. Oops.

I started a job in Central London last week and next week is my first full week there, I need to be super careful with my pennies.

Does anyone have any ideas of what a "good" budget would be for Central London? I want to include lunch and bits & pieces in mine. Do people include travel?

X

Hi TigerLily

I don't know about a budget for London but with regards to what to include it really is up to you. I've had several ways of working my budgets for this challenge. I have at times included misc items, groceries, and petrol. Now I am back to just misc items although I budget elsewhere for petrol and groceries. My reason for this is that I need to buy food and petrol so I set a budget for that. Whereas in this budget I include one extras and bits and bobs I 'waste' money on.

So I guess with your travel it depends whether you are wasting money in this area or if you need to spend on it and only spend what you need to.

EverTheOptimist

Afternoon everyone.

New thread Here