2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

lingojingo

catznine, I hope your daughter is ok too. x

not spent any more cash, got plenty of turkey in the freezer!!!!:T

but just realised i forgot to add dd £11.61 for Tv licence and £26 heating and plumbing cover.

Ephemera

bails wrote: »

WOW, where can you park for that little?! I'm impressed!

I must confess my partner paid the £1 of the total £1.30 for parking :rotfl: only cos he's loaded!

.....in that case why did I have to pay 30p???? :eek:

He did save me petrol and did drive so I'll let him off (especially as he's sat behind me and is dropping me off home later...it's a long walk home in the rain :eek: )

We do have a local car park where you can park for an hour for 30p. About the only bargain in Dorset apart from free supermarket parking but I'm avoiding them like the plague... :T

Good luck for next week...

Eph.

Protogenia

Good afternoon lovely folks :heart2:

A no spender for me. I have spent the afternoon batch baking which included chicken and mushroom crumble, chicken & veggie soup, pauper's scones (delish with jam) and butterscotch tart < not for me as I am trying to lose weight.

Have taken the dogs out for a couple of walks today due to the stunning sunshine, it was like a spring morning...apparently another cold snap is on the way tho!

Well I am on the last day of this challenge for week one - I have £8.26 left over from my weekly budget of £86.50...so I am chuffed.
I shall keep that £8.26 to one side for a week when I am not so frugal.

Best wishes to you and your daughter Catz X x

Have a fab evening all.

Genia X

bails

Nyk, thanks for adjusting my total, even if it is a whoole lot more scary :eek::D
Catznine, really hope things with your DD improve soon, and on your first week back too. Sending you hugs :grouphug: The challenge can wait, we'll still be here when you get back.
NSD for me, which is good considering how much I've spent so far! :rotfl:Will update my sig soon. Well done everyone on doing so fantastically well so far!
I didn't know about the TV programme or that Hypno was in it - how exciting to have a star in our humble midst! Look forward to seeing it. Gotta dash, been on here WAAAY too long today :rotfl:
ps Eph, however you can get it (so to speak) is good in my book!

affordmylife

Well its the end of the first week and I ve spent £6.39 so far plus one dd of £20 has come out. Oh and a lottery ticket - didnt get one number!!!

Not a bad start for the first week. Im pleased with that.

Everyone else is doing brilliant too - well done one and all.

I am hoping to get mostly through the week with what we have in stock. I have got two birthdays this week and a dinner party on Sunday tho so some planning needed there. Off to make some lists.

debrag

nykmedia wrote: »

I was going to save this little 'nugget' until the end of the month, but I just cannot wait that long :rotfl: It's like a 'bonus' part of this challenge that we use as a reward scheme for hitting our targets. It's every bit as hard as the 4k challenge but ... no... I can't do it... I can't tell you yet... it is just me being over enthusiastic ... and I must learn to curb my obsessive enthusiasm. I'll tell you all at the end of the month, but you can only take part in the bonus if you have met the targets you set out for month one.

My monthly target is £300 this month, most months will be £250 though. some months I may go over, some months I may be under so should balance out to the grand total.

georgiasmum

Thanks for the reminder about the 2 'free' months of council tax! I had forgotten that and realised I now have £220 'extra' to put towards my little goals. Waheeeyyyyyy!!!!

Fairywings

Shame on me... i'v spent £150 in 2 days :eek:
Admittedly, i didnt shop at all over xmas, just scrounged off various family members/ friends/ anyone who'd feed us lol!
AND i work in a supermarket so temptation follows me around all day!!! mmmmm..... cheesecake.....

bails

Okay, I've just worked out my totals for the week and nearly had heart failure as I included things I wasn't meant to, like my big water bill! PHEW! Still doesn't make pretty reading though, £145.04 :eek: but when I think that £40 of that is for 2 big presents (my mum's 60th and my brother's engagement), £26.76 was in Julian Graves stocking up for the year , plus other presents and stocking up the freezer, it's not quite so bad! Now the sales are over, next week should be a much smaller spend (just in time to shell out for a new car probably :mad:). Oh well, whatever money I can save this year will have to go towards that instead of my mortgage :rolleyes:

Good luck with the end of the week everyone and here's to a frugal next 7 days! :T
EDIT: oh Fairywings, thankyou for making me feel just a little bit better!

broke_mum_of_three

Thought I was doing well having a no spend day, when my DH who is looking after his dad's car while he is on holiday went to start it and it was as dead as "Hector" ( sorry to anyone called Hector)! So we borrowed a friends tow rope and I had to pull it which was hilarious(not) anyway we broke the tow rope and had to replace it in Halfords for £7.49:eek: I asked the girl was that her cheapest tow rope and she said yes as it was on offer at half price! Daylight robbery:rolleyes: