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March 2014 Grocery Challenge

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  • charlies_tribe
    charlies_tribe Posts: 1,606 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    March total 612/600
    £12 over after sending DH to the shop. Not to bad for the first full month though. Hopefully do better in april.
    LBM in April 17 - Starting card debt £33554
    Mortgage@1 June 18 - £76350
    Total debt @june 18 £102311
    Debt Jan 25 £8282
    Mortgage £51215. Total debt now £59497
  • Mama10
    Mama10 Posts: 37 Forumite
    I'm declaring at £606.03 for the month that £206.03over budget :( I felt I was doing really well until just over a week ago. Went over budget then kind of have up. DH makes it harder offering to go out for lunch etc and takeaways so I don't need to cook but even though he pays I still count it in the budget. This month I'm going to start afresh with a clear mind. Heading over to April a day early but need to start from scratch today. Well done to everyone who came on , under or close to budget!
    March GC £606.33/£400
    April GC £387.96/£400[/COLOR]
    May GC £0/£500
    2 Adults, DD5, DS 2, DS 8months
  • Billie-jo
    Billie-jo Posts: 1,221 Forumite
    Final £6.50 spent today taking me up to £193.93 which is £26.07 under budget. Happy at this but do think I could and should have done better.
    Off to April now which is a whole new LOWER challenge at just £165
    MARCH £62.38/250
  • Make-it-3
    Make-it-3 Posts: 1,661 Forumite
    I know I need to declare but I wanted to review my spends as I think something got muddled up in the month.

    I have now grabbed my mountain of receipts and totted them up, but there are a couple of bits I need to buy today and also to see what is lurking in OH's wallet. I know he went a bit OTT on what I would call extravagant things for Mother's Day brekkie yesterday.

    Will aim to tie it all up by end of the day.
    We Made-it-3 on 28/01/11 with birth of our gorgeous DD.
  • Ali-OK
    Ali-OK Posts: 4,073 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Debt-free and Proud!
    Congrats to dingdong and Lush as well.

    Declaring for March at £96.55, so just within the £100 budget. Haven't spent since the weekly shop last Tuesday, so it's onto the new month from tomorrow.

    See you all in the April challenge!
    Back on the DFW Wagon:

    CC - £3,300 on 0% til 04/2020
    CC - £4,500 on 0% til 02/2019
    Loan - £12,063.84 as at 4/1/18
  • Make-it-3
    Make-it-3 Posts: 1,661 Forumite
    Tallying all done and declaring for the month at £194.02/£180 so £14.02 over. There was quite a stash of receipts in OH's wallet for lunch bits. He does like to pop out on the hoof for lunch stuff rather than have me organise him!

    So I'm not too disappointed as I think without this we would have been definitely under.

    So off over to the April thread now.
    We Made-it-3 on 28/01/11 with birth of our gorgeous DD.
  • pinkparrott
    pinkparrott Posts: 340 Forumite
    Well I've totted all the bills up and we can declare £488.25 !!! Am really pleased about this as its only my second month and we managed to vet under budget.
    However v big shop today , so need to get on to April challenge
    Grocery Challenge Feb 14 £500 / Spent £572.10!
    March 14 £500 / spent £488.45 :j
  • marris
    marris Posts: 644 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    :jdeclare £81,82 for this month well pleased.moving on to April see u all there
    Jan GC £66,82/100 Jan NSD 17/31; Feb GC £71,67/100 Feb NSD 14/28;Mar GC £81,82/100 Mar NSD 16/31;Apr GC £99,54/100 Apr NSD 14/30; May GC £127,20/100 May NSD 12/31; June GC £70,05/100 June NSD 17/30; July GC £47,52/100 NSD 05/31
  • lynnejk
    lynnejk Posts: 5,732 Forumite
    Rampant Recycler Debt-free and Proud!
    edited 1 April 2014 at 11:32PM
    Last day of March and a NSD. So declaring at £191.08/240 :j


    That means £48.92 :T to put into the Bulk Buy Fund and moving into April.


    See you all there
    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 = £13,140
  • kayester
    kayester Posts: 1,844 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    BIG FAILURE!!!! As you can see by my sig this March has been a very bad month, and I am glad to see the back of it!! Hellloooooo April!!
    216/2018 (make ££ in 2018)

    Grocery challenge
    Jan 227/400
    swagbucks target 2018 1452/27375
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