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March 2014 Grocery Challenge
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Finished on £192/£180 an overspend of £12 so not bad at all considering there were 5 weekends in the month.
Husband sent shopping today, spent £14. Bought strawberries, orange juice, salad, veg, bread and washing up liquid.0 -
Congratulations on the birth of your little one!
My little girl arrived on the 20th so I've not been posting on here for the last week or so.
I've updated my signature - we went over, but it was because I had a huge shop to stock us up ready for shopping bi-weekly instead of weekly for everything that's not fresh. Plus, the 5 week months really sting us budget-wise.
Here's to April and a 4 weeker! Hehe.
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I got a bit confused this week as a few things going on but I have £165 on my wall and I know I spent a bit more than that so declaring on £180. Going to transfer £20 to our savings, not much but better than nothing.
Off to try and work out how to get my signature on for April and look at dates for setting my budget - thinking the same budget of £400 but think I may have an extra shop....?
Have a great day tomorrow ladies :jJune GC Budget - 310/400
July GC Budget - 445/400
2 adults and 2 children0 -
Just nipped to aldi for a few essentials plus teacakes/meat for sandwiches - this is the final grocery spend of March, but unfortunately, I'm £1.86 over budget!
A little bit gutted, but really, if it wasn't for this challenge, I would have spent much more on food - so I've got to be happy overall.
So I'm off to the April board - see you all there.SPC # 348 2014-£169.07/2015 - £156.89
GC 2014 Feb-Dec £2931.62
GC 2015 Jan £216.93/£220 Feb £291.97/£215 Mar £213.64/£220 Apr £207.62/£220
DFBXmas2015 #40 - £3,474.61/£4,0000 -
I'm way way way over budget now but seem that since we went over budget can't stop spending on takeaways etc. chinese takeaway tonight plus some alcohol which is very rare. So spend if £32.69 which means my total so far for March is way over my £400 budget. Will update signature nowMarch GC £606.33/£400
April GC £387.96/£400[/COLOR]
May GC £0/£500
2 Adults, DD5, DS 2, DS 8months0 -
Went to a food festival today. Got change from £29, which is extremely low for one of the these events for me...... Unfortunately most of it (£18) was on what I'd class as 'junk' !!!Cheryl0
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dingdongsaving wrote: »
My little girl arrived on the 20th so I've not been posting on here for the last week or so.
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Congratulations :dance: :dance:
Little spend of £2.58 in Li*l today - still under budget :j
Hope you all have a super MOTHER'S DAY
Lx£10day.2014=3213/2015=3421/2016=3238/2017=2702/2018=498..APR=12.03/300
GrocC.2014=2162/2015=2083/2016=218/2017=1996/2018=450..APR=17.13/200
Bulk buy.......APR=233.76
GC.NSD..2015=216/2016=213/2017=229/2018=39..APR=03/15
SPC130:staradminx61..2014=1178/2015=1287/2016=4616/2017=3843
OS WL= -2/8 ......CC =00......Savings = £13,1400 -
dingdongsaving - Congratulations!
Still over but going to try to write a meal plan for the whole of April today. I hate writing it but it's so much easier when it's there!August Shopping Challenge. 26/8. Budget £250 Spent £256.81.. £6.81 over. So £0.00 a day left.0 -
Congrats to lushlifesaver and dingdongsaving!
Part time working mum | Married in 2014 | DS born 2015 & DD born 2018
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6542225/stopping-the-backsliding-a-family-of-four-no-longer-living-beyond-their-means/p1?new=1
Consumer debt free!
Mortgage: -£128,033
Savings: £6,050
- Emergency fund £1,515
- New kitchen £556
- December £420
- Holiday £3,427
- Bills £132
Total joint pension savings: £55,4250 -
Updated spends to sig as just lost my post, and welcome to the world baby lush and congrats to anyone else celebrating good news.GC Jan £101.91/£150 Feb £70.96/150 Mar £100.43/150 Apr £108.45 app/150 May £149.70/150 Jun £155.15/150 July £76.30/£150 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month. One person vegan household with occasional visitors)Forever learning the art of frugality0
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