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October 2007 Grocery Challenge
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Just done the numbers.......... and I am £17.50 over budget already... with 2 weeks to go.
But I am fairly positive that I dont really have any major expenses coming up.... just need fresh fruit and veg topped up... so it shouldn't be that expensive.
And I have learned a couple of good lessons for next month.... so hopefully I will be mores successful then.0 -
I will be £20 over budget by end of month due to loosing the plot at one stage but still £20 below the amount I used to spend. Allowed £160 but bought Christmas items on offer which i should have bought from my jam jar challange cash but I am happy that I am saving the £20. Well done to those who will come in under budget and those like me who are at least trying0
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I,ve been good this week, takin sandwiches to work, my own tea bags and some of the milk from home, so no spendies there. However I started Mystery shopping to earn an extra buck and keep buying a wee coffee here and there, not quite the idea but how else do you pass the time? Will get this under control though, it,s digging into my earnings. Of to make sandwiches for tomorrow then bed, I,m shattered. Good luck everybody nite nite:T:jDabbler in all things moneysaving.Master of none:o
Well except mastered my mortgage 5 yrs early :T:j
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Oh god Teedy.... you've just reminded me I haven't made DH's sandwiches for tomorrow :eek:
Any guesses what I'm off to do now? (no, it's not going to bed anyway :rotfl: )April 2021 Grocery Challenge 34.29 / 2500 -
Hi all just checking if its okay for me to join in on next months? Wanted to do it this month but the freezer defrosted itself and lost a whole freezer full of food!grrr!.........
also if you eat out or buy extras do you include thosescosts in this budget as well? PS Flossyblog just looking at your spending above and i think personally that's really great!£15 for one week?I wish!lol
Hi Dobs and welcome to the GC challenge! :wave:
I think a lot of people have an 'entertaining' budget which covers eating out, birthday parties for the littlies etc. Just work your budget out to whatever suits you really.Hi All
will update my sig in a bit but just popped on to say.....well done to those who are getting there and.....commiserations to those who are not doing so well.
I've noticed one or two of you, particularly the newer ones, beating yourselves up a bit and saying you'll have to take the overspend off next month's money. Don't do it!
If you try and cut back TOO much you'll only end up getting downhearted about it and giving up! Just think about the positives of joining the challenge like:-
how much you were spending before compared to now,
how you've at least become aware of what you are spending now
how well you have done really.
....and give yourselves a pat on the back. B
Absolutely true Bobbykins! :T
Before I joined the GC challenge I was spending £250 + a month and that was just for me!! When I look back at that I am really pleased with my current spend of £60-£80 per month... don't throw the string away. You always need string!
C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z Head Sharpener0 -
Well, that's me, all spent for the month.
Tesco delivery came yesterday, 43.00, but there was alot of stuff in there for taking on hols on Friday, lots of goodies and treats!!:j
So total spend for the month came to 221.05, 21.05 over budget but I'm well and truly stocked up and so am hoping that November will definitely come in on target.
Keep up the good work, everyone, see you in the November challenge after my holidays!!:hello::j
Thanks for all your help!!!:T0 -
Bye Mrs Dave
have a great hols!
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Am inspired by you all so much so that I am going to join in next month as I don't really have a clue how much I spend for 4 of us 2 adults, a child and a toddler oops forgot the dog, but a quick rummage through my purse revealed roughly £75 in receipts! Not good I know! So am going to try and stick to £250 for the month and if I manage that reduce it a bit more of course banking the difference in the rainy day account.
2008 will be the year I finally get organised!:o
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Spent another €25 to day....€50 left. To be fair to myself, about €30 of what I have spent this month has been Christmas stuff, which should have come out of the C'mas budget but I haven't bothered...if things get really bad will 'reimburse' the GC challenge.
Good luck all
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:wave: Hiya lovelies! (and an extra big :wave: :hello: :wave: to all the new faces!)
I am now done for October and we made it - just, but somehow spent more than in September????
I've noticed that I seem to do my biggest, most expensive shop in the last week of the month when we have the least money and only a week or so to go until pay day!
What's that all about???
I'm going to try extra hard in November so that we can have a few treats at Christmas without feeling bad about it because we saved lots of dosh the previous month.
And looking on the bright side, when I saved our receipts in August we'd spent well over £600 in the supermarket so I'm definitely getting better.
Things keep changing in our household so the shopping requirments and meal plan keeps changing
We low carbed for about 3 weeks and lost a few pounds but I couldn't stand to do it any longer. (I was SO sick of meat and fish - and I really missed brown rice and apples!)
I've picked up a vegetarian low carb cookbook on eBay now though, and we might have another go when I've got some less "meat heavy" meal plans worked out.
My son was unemployed (apart from his part time job) for 10 weeks after he left college, and now he's out at work from 8:30 until 7:30 every day, so his food needs have changed.
He just has a bowl of cereal now instead of a leisurely fry up in the mornings, but he takes a big packed lunch and stil has tea -and supper! - at home most nights. (He eats the most of any of us and he's the skinniest. Go figure!
Anyway, this is turning into my autobiography so Good Luck Everybody for the last few days of the month and November....?
Bring it ON! :rotfl:
Love Jacks xxxNot everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Einstein0
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