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I've learn how to shop on a budget!!
blackangeluk
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Yay - I went to Tescos today for the weekly shop - my weekly budget is £60 and I spent £55.01 and used my £5 off receipt so total was £50.01 :j :j :j
I was "Mrs Research" before I hit the shops as well
Sorted out the meal plan for the week and compared receipts to Aldis where I normally go and priced everything up at Tescos online and found it was cheaper there instead. So I trundled off with the print out of my online shop and followed it to the tee - ok so I bought some chocolate :eek: and cake making stuff - but I did a lot of bulk buy as well, (cat food, dishwasher powder) and BOGOF re cereals. I got another £5 voucher as well and discount off petrol - so all very DFW!
Feel really pleased, our budget this month was £240 and in the last 2 weekly shops we have spent £123 so I think I'm on course ..............just had to share as I think my "non cyber friends" would think I was very boring :rotfl:
I was "Mrs Research" before I hit the shops as well
Sorted out the meal plan for the week and compared receipts to Aldis where I normally go and priced everything up at Tescos online and found it was cheaper there instead. So I trundled off with the print out of my online shop and followed it to the tee - ok so I bought some chocolate :eek: and cake making stuff - but I did a lot of bulk buy as well, (cat food, dishwasher powder) and BOGOF re cereals. I got another £5 voucher as well and discount off petrol - so all very DFW!Feel really pleased, our budget this month was £240 and in the last 2 weekly shops we have spent £123 so I think I'm on course ..............just had to share as I think my "non cyber friends" would think I was very boring :rotfl:
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:Twell done blackangeluk-keep it up!!!0
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Hurrah :T :T :T
keep up the good work xSuccessful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)0 -
Very good. Think I have bored one of my RL friends to tears with my budgets and stuff.... Though she is going head to head with me for the Jam Jar Challenge.2026 Goals
Live below £14000
Emergency Fund 1 £3k/£1002
Emergency Fund 2 £200 (works a bit like Premium Bonds)
Premium Bonds £1k/£700
Stocks & Shares Isa £5k/£1651
SIPP £9200/2000 -
My friends all think I'm mad. But they have started to drag out the slow cookers and there was talk of meal planning as if it was their own idea :rotfl: . They won't be laughing when I'm a millionaire huh??5 Year plan. April 2020 to June 2025- CC and mortgage free by time I'm 60
Currently CC £23,674.36 /£14,895.41/£14315.42
Mortgage £28,214.65/ £26,254.71/ £25,746.43
By end 2020 I want CC at £ 19,000.00.
By end 2021 I want CC at £10,000.000 -
well done, that's great!
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Cool, well done! I'm getting terrible at bringing up money saving things in conversation but at least i've converted a few friends. Mind you, there's a few to go...one friend doesn't know how much her mortgage costs her or the total of her direct debits. I'm probably too much the other way!January budget
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Well done BAUK, that's really good.... now if only u could teach my OH to do that!?!
Sarah x'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde0 -
SarahNeedle1872 wrote: »Well done BAUK, that's really good.... now if only u could teach my OH to do that!?!
Sarah x
I saw your post about OH's shopping trip hence when my DH offered to go for me this afternoon I ran out of the door in fear :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:0 -
blackangeluk wrote: »I saw your post about OH's shopping trip hence when my DH offered to go for me this afternoon I ran out of the door in fear :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
I love him to pieces, and love spending time with him, but I can't STAND shopping with him! He has a phobia of anything 'value', can't eat reduced things in case it poisons him (defrosted food has the same effect!) and has to buy whatever he wants, especially if its NOT on offer.
Gotta love them!
Sarah x'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde0 -
I went shopping with DH this week and although not mortally wounded it did sting however, I got 2 tillspits. ! for money off petrol and the other I can't remeber but he's lost them, AAARRRRGH!Debt: 16/04/2007:TOTAL DEBT [strike]£92727.75[/strike] £49395.47:eek: :eek: :eek: £43332.28 repaid 100.77% of £43000 target.MFiT T2: Debt [STRIKE]£52856.59[/STRIKE] £6316.14 £46540.45 repaid 101.17% of £46000 target.2013 Target: completely clear my [STRIKE]£6316.14[/STRIKE] £0 mortgage debt. £6316.14 100% repaid.0
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