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January 2016 Grocery Challenge
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I'm declaring £95 / £120 for Jan, so not too bad really, as am deffo not spending today :j"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
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I spent £182/£200 . There was quite a bit of leftover Christmas food to use up so will stick to £200 for next month and see how we go.0
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Slightly over by £9.35 (£259.35 instead of the budgeted £250).
However, did some bulk cooking and can see areas to cut back on so not too bad.
This was also about £70 less per month than we have been spending, so overall quite pleased!
Onward and upward for next month!!
SSGC 2016 Jan £259.35/£250 Feb £lost track/£250 Mar £163.70/£250
Emergency Fund Savings Target £600/£2,400
Other Savings Target £664.50/£1,000
NSD Mar 6/16
Stoozed spend offset £1,225.20/£3,3000 -
Evening all
Well done everyone for trying to budget for January - not the easiest time eh
Brilliant totals and lots of savings happening here.
Shopping today at A*di = £17.98 for usual weekly stuff.
Declaring for January at £205.69/220
so that means I have another £14.31 to add to my Bulk buy fund :j
'See' you all in February on the new thread and hope you all have a money-saving Monday
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
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OS WL= -2/8 ......CC =00......Savings = £13,1400 -
Oh dear my total for January is £337.61. Think I've let the side down. Well done to all who have stayed within budget. This wwill be me next month!!Mortgage and debt free
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I end January's last week £8 over but still not bad really 0
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Spent £3.34 on eggs and lunchbox fillers last night.
I'm still working on Jan money so staying in here till FridaySPC~12 ot 124
In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind, be more kind my friend, try to Be More Kind0 -
Well by my reckoning, adding up all the receipts for January, we've spent £377.14 of our £400 budget. So far so good, but now I need to reduce that further.Books - the original virtual reality.
Tilly Tidying:0 -
Spent £47 /£100 for the month on shopping, aided by free food from work and leftovers.
Sadly spent £57 on eating out, though £7 less then last month so a mini win.
My other budgetting categories didn't do so well so proud of this!0 -
Declaring Janaury at £155.44 out of £200 :T
On top of that we spent about £45 on cat food :eek:0
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