How Much Will You Spend In 2017? Challenge

*GasMonkey*

Jan 1st - Jan 6th

DD bus pass - £25
Diesel - £35
New Work clothes - £76
Over Payment credit card - £4.22
Medicine from boots (cheap ones with same ingredients!) £3.39
Bottled water (BAD!) - £1.50

Total to date - £145.11 :eek:

mumtoomany

Shopping yesterday, £52.90 on food, lots of reductions at the cash and carry, £1.99 for this year's Christmas Pudding, £6.99 on dog food, £1.26 on matches. Also £26.80 on take away last night, dadtoomany's Birthday treat. We have also spent £134.80 on D.I.Y. bits, d2m is constructing a wall to make a utility room and ground floor toilet. Expensive day! M2m.

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So far we have spent £29.42 on groceries
Dh went out yesterday and got a few bits for the house but i'm not sure where he has put the receipt so will have to ask him when he gets up!!

I'll update later

Psychobabble78

:j:jYesterday was the first no spend day of the year for me.:j

I_Love_comps

Shopping from the 9th January Total £4.95 - This was groceries. I buy shops own brands and I save £'s by doing so.

Total spent now in 2017 = £48.02

Psychobabble78

Totals for this week (excluding DD's and SO's which I'll update into the total at the end of the month!:

Budget £150.00 - overspend last week = total available funds of £68.78

Total expenses: 138.66 - so came in under original budget but due to week 1 overspend still returning an overspend of 69.88, but I'll knock that out hopefully by the end of the month and balance the month even

Shopping: 74.26
Hobbies: 34.40
Entertainment: 20.00
Kids travel: 10.00

Psychobabble78

I was also just wondering if anyone shops like I do - i tend to go to the discount stores and do little shops maybe 4 times a week - so Aldi, Home Bargains etc. I rarely do a big shop at Asda or the others, and sometimes I do wonder if this is a value for money approach....

I_Love_comps

Psychobabble78 wrote: »

I was also just wondering if anyone shops like I do - i tend to go to the discount stores and do little shops maybe 4 times a week - so Aldi, Home Bargains etc. I rarely do a big shop at Asda or the others, and sometimes I do wonder if this is a value for money approach....

I do shopping at Tesco once a week on a Tuesday and then Aldi or Lidl alternative weeks on a Thursday . Tesco for me is within walking distance and a large superstore - so a selection of different prices. Hubby drives so that is why we go to Aldi and Lidl otherwise I would not be saving anything if I had to spend the £4 bus fare to get there.
Always take into consideration bus fares and petrol, when driving around for those bargains as you may be spending more in petrol and bus fare , trying to find that bargain.

angelicious

Afternoon all,

Sorry I haven't been updating much lately but I have been keeping track of spends. Total so far is £272.99. Don't think this is too bad as it includes :

• £89 for 2 new pair of glasses which I was in dire need of and really couldn't put off for much longer;
• £50 for a service for my car, due MOT on Monday and hopefully will pass. Will probably be changing the car at some point this year, the one I'm driving at the minute is 13 years old, I've had it for 10 of those and thankfully I've never had much trouble with it until recently but I've just lost faith in it now and hate driving it. If I got another 6 months out of it I'd be very happy :rotfl:.
• £30.50 for the actual MOT test; and
• £40 for diesel

So all in all not too bad I think. Haven't added my DD's in yet but will do this at the end of the month.

Happy weekend all :T

Psychobabble78

I_Love_comps wrote: »

Always take into consideration bus fares and petrol, when driving around for those bargains as you may be spending more in petrol and bus fare , trying to find that bargain.

I don't drive at the moment, so I am walking or cycling everywhere - so it's all (relatively) free, plus i'm burning off a few calories in the process :rotfl: