July Pin Money Savings Challenge

cozzie

Another virginal lamb to the slaughter here too.

I already have £30+ in vouchers, but, I can only use them for 10% of my shopping and I don't expect to spend even 2/3rds of that. My shopping day is a Saturday and my food budget is £40pw for 2adults and 1 child...5wks @ £40 = max £200 shopping.

I too put all of my change into a jar, which will bump up my total, but, I very rarely spend on anything else so I think I would be lucky if my total came to more than £35. We shall see.

Good luck all.

squeaky

:eek: Quick quick!! Someone else has got to come and join us... we're thirteen virgins all in a row...

cozzie

Ggggggreat, my lucky number!!

Queenie

pink_fairy wrote:

Isn't it exciting. I was feeling really sad and depressed so read this thread from start to finish and now I feel motivated again. I can't wait to start the challenge in the morning. I have my coupons at the ready!!

Target £30

Good Luck everyone

Sorry to hear you've been feeling down ((hugs)) but ...

.... D-Lighted that you've regained motivation from this thread :T :T





For Father's Day, the boys bought their Dad a gift of 4 mini Baileys .. they were taking up room in their box in the fridge, so I unpacked them ... found a 50p coupon inside and nabbed it quick! That'll do nicely

Tip: If you are feeling brave - just hand in your wodge of coupons at the checkout and look naive Sometimes they will scan them through even if it goes over the "rules". I've done this several times and if I get a knock back or the look ... I look then and thank them for explaining to "silly me"
Tip #2: If you are *not* feeling brave ... order OH/dh to volunteer to do it for you. :whistle:

squeaky

Just a reminder that I'll be unsticking this thread some time late tomorrow - by which time it'll be the featured Pin Money Challenge in our Monthly Challenges sticky.

You can find it in our "Challenges" sticky at the top of the forum listing, or you can follow the clue in my signature any time you see it or...

..you can use the Monthly Challenges link in the Blue Bar at the top of every page which looks something like this:-

lemanie

Had already decided to try own budget for shopping for July (necessity, house purchase completion due for end of July - yippee!) before reading thread. Would very much like to join challenge as 14th virgin. Have withdrawn £200 for monthly shopping today but already spent £20 on 3 piece suite from sale room + £15 for delivery and £1.99 for upholstery cleaner so working from behind already! Oh dear.

Queenie

:hello: Welcome lemanie :hello:

Jump on board

squeaky

lemanie wrote:

Had already decided to try own budget for shopping for July (necessity, house purchase completion due for end of July - yippee!) before reading thread. Would very much like to join challenge as 14th virgin. Have withdrawn £200 for monthly shopping today but already spent £20 on 3 piece suite from sale room + £15 for delivery and £1.99 for upholstery cleaner so working from behind already! Oh dear.

Wahay, fourteen it is!

Any more? there's still time to join in and catch up

honey

Hello and welcome lemanie :wave:

Well day 1 and a cheque has come this morning from anglian water for £47.93 because we overpaid them :j

Do you think I should count this in as pin money? It feels a bit like I'm cheating - I thought I would just adding up small amounts from BOGOFs etc?

Queenie

:T :T Excellent news on the cheque honey!! :j :j

Yes, it is *definately* pin money! It is unexpected, a bonus, not budgeted for = pin money It's not cheating either

Now run quickly and squirrel it away into a savings account so it can earn you extra money in interest!

WTG!!!