Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 23rd March 2014

EverTheOptimist

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Weekly Spend Challenge. This challenge is open to anybody, no matter what financial place they are in. Everyone is welcome here.

On this thread please post an amount of money you wish to stay below within the week (Sunday to end of working day on Friday). This can be pennies or thousands it depends on the individual. Then next Saturday report back and pledge for the following week. The challenge runs from Sunday to Friday so we don't include Saturdays but feel free to change the rules to suit you and include Saturdays or start on a different day.

Feel free to update this thread with daily spends if that keeps you on track. We colour code the results as below:

Green - within budget
Red - over budget
Purple - zero spend
Orange - made money over the week

This is a little bit of fun but for many it highlights the fact that maybe that magazine/chocolate bar isn't needed. Hopefully your spending habits can be changed forever.

Moozie was the founder of this challenge and here is a quote taken from her:

Originally Posted by Moozie:
"Good afternoon lovely DFWs Now for anyone looking in, please feel free to join - the more the merrier! Basically, decide on the amount you want to spend up to from Sunday until the end of the working day on Friday then pledge it here and off we go! The challenge is about incidental spending and not for stuff that should be budgeted elsewhere such as bills, groceries, debt repayment etc but you decide what to include at the end - this is about changing your habits and improving your recording of your spends more than anything else. Have a great week everyone and keep it low!!! Moozie x"

Good Luck Everyone

Link to last weeks thread

W/C 16th March 2014 challengers / pledges / totals

EverTheOptimist - £45 / £27.03
Mrs Cheshire - £19 / GREEN
Busymumofthreeplusdog - £90
Munchin - £35 / RED
Sedge123 - £40 / £40

W/C 23rd March 2014 challengers / pledges / totals

EverTheOptimist - £10
Sedge123 - £80
Munchin - £35
DD265 - £50
Mrs Cheshire - £10
Busymumofthreeplusdog - £50

EverTheOptimist

Afternoon everyone

Well I had just typed out my plans for the week and the iPad decided to close the web page down. :mad:

So my budget for this week is £16.

Will post my plans again later. :mad:

ETA - £16 seemed excessive for my plans, so changed to £10

Sedge123

Well last week went pretty well. Lost track towards the end but I know I didn't go over budget so I'm going to declare £40/£40.

This week it's my birthday so I'm going to set at £80.

Munchin

Hi all,

Please put me down for £35 this week. I don't have a lot of plans so should be able to stick this.

Sun - £1.10 paper
Mon -?

DD265

Hi all

It's pay day week and I do need a few things so I'm going to be generous and say £50.

Going to be an orange week - my eBay sales are ending tonight and doing rather well.

My plan for the week looks like this:

Sunday - NSD
Monday - will be a spend day, probably £3-4 in Tesco
Tuesday - NSD
Wednesday - £20ish in Tesco (Pay Day!)
Thursday - NSD
Friday - NSD
Saturday - need two cards and some wrapping paper so around £15

Mrs_Cheshire

Was in budget last week, not worked out exactly but definitely in budget.
Can you put me down for £10 please

Sun- £5 on a trip to the local soft play centre for a family fun day!

Busymumofthreeplusdog

My week looks like this

Mon - training event at work - lunch provided. Might need to buy milk on way home....
Tues-NSD hopefully....;)
Wed - circuits £1.00
Thurs - pos top up shop from budget otherwise NSD
Fri- no plans yet;)
Sat - ladies day out - lunch& drinks £40-50.00 tops:beer:
Sun - NSD:A

So let's aim for £50 tops

Have a great week everyone!

EverTheOptimist

Welcome back everyone. Hope everyone's had a good start to the week.

For me

Sun - NSD :j
Mon - nail appt, so need to pay for car parking - £1.20, also bought a drink in town £1.75 :eek: Did buy cleaning products and DIY stuff but from diff budget
Tues - going to work for few hours. (Keeping in touch day)
Weds- baby group, NSD
Thurs - poss going to see a friend, will take biscuits. £4
Fri - baby group, NSD
Sat - likely to buy a newspaper. So need to keep this spend to just this.

Total £2.95 / £10

Busymumofthreeplusdog

NSD today! :j:jEven did without the milk, tho probably have to get some tomorrow.:(

Mrs_Cheshire

SUN - £5
Mon - NSD
Tues -NSD

Busymumofthreeplusdog

NSD today, hubby bough milk from own £1 stash!