Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 17th November 2013

mooomin

Aimed for a NSD yesterday but spent £2.60 on postage and £7.12 at the cinema :eek: I do have an Unlimited card though so my friend got in for free (Orange Wednesday) and I only spent so much because I was disorganised and forgot to buy popcorn to smuggle in

Technically this leave me about £22 left of my budget but I'm out for dinner tonight so I think I'll end up being over budget for the week...

mooomin

£14.05 left from £50 budget, bought tickets to the circus tomorrow (£9 ticket offer, reduced from £20!)

bearacus

Hi all

Wed

Lemonade and chocolate bars - £2.09
Cigarettes ( husband) £5.00 - hoping this will stop soon as my husband is cutting down a lot and really wants to quit. He actually only started back up in July on holiday after not smoking for 8 years !!

Total spend £54.29/£80

mooomin

That's my budget fully blown now - I spoke to a friend on the phone who I knew was having a tough time, but I didn't realise how stretched she was. They don't have money for electricity (card) and are rationing loo roll, reusing teabags and so on.

She wouldn't let me send her money so I got her address on the pretext of Christmas and spent £40+ sending her loorolls, teabags, lentils and such like via Amazon as she lives somewhere where no supermarkets deliver :rotfl:

My budget might be knackered, but I can afford it and I haven't blown it on something worthless so I feel happy enough.

flyinggiraffe_2

flyinggiraffe wrote: »

Sunday: NSD
Monday: NSD
Tuesday: NSD
Wednesday: £5.50 train ( was cheaper than normal, but I wasn't going to argue)
Thursday: £7.10 Starbucks orange hot chocolate and a panini

Sedge123

Monday Eating out and coffee £25.23 and then a top £12 which was a bargain in the Fat Face sale
Tuesday Littlest at Hospital for checkup £11.22 on food (one appointment stretched to a whole day spent there) and then £7!! on parking - I then discovered the barrier was up grrrr
Wednesday NSD
Thursday £1 on coffee


So a total so far of £56.45!!

Just had to say mooomin- what a lovely friend you are. X

EverTheOptimist

mooomin wrote: »

That's my budget fully blown now - I spoke to a friend on the phone who I knew was having a tough time, but I didn't realise how stretched she was. They don't have money for electricity (card) and are rationing loo roll, reusing teabags and so on.

She wouldn't let me send her money so I got her address on the pretext of Christmas and spent £40+ sending her loorolls, teabags, lentils and such like via Amazon as she lives somewhere where no supermarkets deliver :rotfl:

My budget might be knackered, but I can afford it and I haven't blown it on something worthless so I feel happy enough.

Awwww Mooomin how lovely are you. What an amazing thing to do.

Well I've had another NSD today. Remembered I popped 50p into little mans money box yesterday so have spent

£7.89 / £40

Sedge123

Ooooh I can't wait til next weeks challenge. I hate being overbudget and find the start of a new week of the challenge really refreshing to have a new start - how sad am I?x

Munchin

Hi Moomin

That was really lovely thing you did for your friend.

M

mooomin

Aww thanks guys I know that she would do the same for me if the situations were reversed. Times are so tough for so many people :mad:

Can you mark me as red for the week now please, as I'm going to be over £100 spent by tomorrow with that spend and with nights out I under-budgeted for. I need to learn to double my allowance when I'm out with certain friends :rotfl: