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November 2019 Grocery Challenge
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Declaring at £339.40
:mad: Again with the impulse purchases!! Boo hiss.."There's a little witch in all of us"🔮🪬🧿DEBT FREE 06/2018Mrs SD’s Decluttering 2025 ⭐️ 🥇🥇🥇🥇0 -
£163.77/£150
£208.77 spent / £150 was the budget
Hi apologies for long absence. As explained on the December thread - a mix of illness and holiday - including being ill whilst on holiday. hey ho. Guess of £45 additional spend as house sitter tidies receipts into recycling for me.
Thank you for running this thread i will try and catch up with rest of posts when i can, just got up to date on Decembers.1st May 2025
Mortgage Balance 1: £21,601.50 4.98% Now: £18,044.31
Mortgage Balance 2: £84,420.24 Now: £83,562.45
Credit Card Balance 3: £10,911.76 Now: £7,237
Student Loan £TBC0 -
Declaring at £287.81/£300. Happy with that.
Roll on December!0 -
Late to report this month, but I am a considerable £41.93 over for November mostly due to cake making ingredients for DGD birthday. Some decent colouring was £18; but it will last probably a few more birthdays and next Christmas, so it was worth it.
Also, DD1 keeps forgetting to tally how much has been spent or to keep the receipts and I stocked up on a load of free from bits, hugely discounted in Morrison's.GC 2025 so far £1461.52/£1710 Dec 13th - Jan 12 = £55.52/180 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month.Two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1Forever learning the art of frugality0
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