Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 27th October 2013

flyinggiraffe_2

Thanks for the new thread ETO. I've been very lazy and only just getting round to weather proofing my garden.

I was [COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"]green[/COLOR] last week, had 30p in my purse, so must have been £9.70 in total.

Would like to pledge high this week, at £105 as I'm off rocking and a bopping in Cardiff at the weekend. 2 meals out and many drinkidinks are planned. Just got to get through this week at work first.

mooomin

Hi everyone

Thanks to ETO for adding my forecasted spend for this week.

Hopefully I'll manage to stick to budget!

aartisuk

Can I join? 30 pounds this week. First ever attempt at busgeting so will do my best.

EverTheOptimist

Ooooo hope you have a lovely weekend flyinggiraffe. (Wishing you it now as I still have my baby brain and I may forget) Hope this week doesn't drag too much for you.

MissE001 - I would keep the other activities separate. But give yourself a budget that you don't want to go over for each one. Then I would keep the weekly budget just for misc spends and try to keep to a minimum.

I now don't include my nails, hair, groceries and petrol as these are pretty much set amounts. So pointless adding to this. And I've decided this is a budget just for the small things I might like to do but not want to spend too much on. Coffee, occasional lunch, maybe a magazine etc.

Hope that makes sense.

Today spent £4.30 from his budget - coffee, and also got two more Xmas presents whilst out.

Total
£4.30 / £25

EverTheOptimist

Welcome along aartisuk :hello: Good luck

This is a great challenge for making you realise how much you spend without realising. I would say the best thing to do from the beginning is to be realistic. There's no point setting a budget of £10 if there is no way of actually achieving it. But it may take time to understand what, how and why you spend. I still get it wrong sometimes.

Verityemilia

Hi ETO

Well done on the Xmas pressies, I have started as well :xmastree:

My pledge this week is ........

£40 my spends
£40 little ladies spends / half term - both got £20 each lets see how they do

Little budgeting task for them

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MissE001

Thanks ETO - that's what I'll do. I know how much I'm planning to spend on the nights out etc.....and will report back here if I need to dip into my weekly budget by going over which should keep me on the straight and narrow :money:

Have a great week everyone

EverTheOptimist

Plans for this week

Sun - town and coffee - £4.30 :j
Mon - NSD :j
Tues - baby group car parking £2
Weds - NSD
Thurs - baby group NSD
Fri - NSD
Sat - NSD

£4.30 / £25

Lunch now arranged for tomorrow but going two for tenner.

I know I say it every week but I really do need to watch what I spend now. I've been in a bit of denial about how hard it will be going back to work part time money wise. So really need to watch my spends now. I can't reduce my set outgoings anymore than I have (bills etc) so need to watch the spends I have got control over. I can be a bit extravagant sometimes and wasteful.

Thrifty_Fashionista

Sun NSD
Mon 58p Milk

Took fruit and lunch from home, so saved there.

Tf x

Townses

Going to sit this out this week as have had a weekend away and a very busy half term week. Haven't had a minute to sit down and work out a budget!!

Will bd back in next week to knuckle back down. So far only done two weeks and both were red!!