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moozies weekly challenge w/c 27th Jan 2008

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  • sans_2
    sans_2 Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    hi,

    i've not posted on this thread for ages! :o

    please could you put me down for £300, this includes my monthly bus pass at £65 (perhaps more as prices went up on the 31.12.07. :mad: also it's my birthday this week and taking family, mum, dad, sisters and one of their boyfriends for a nice dinner (i'm budgeting £200 for that), i need to top up at least £10 for petrol

    doesn't include home insurance which will come from joint account :T
    Tesco points: 101 (£21.50, £19.50, £7.50, £21 & £5)
    Boots points: £0.28
    Pigsback points: 715 (4 xBoots£10 & 1 xPizzaHut£10, 2 x £10 clothing vouchers)
    Mutual points: 3417 (redeemed 8250)
    Rpoints:redeemed 28925 points)Cashbag:£8.91(£20)
  • x_raphael_xx
    x_raphael_xx Posts: 4,411 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Woo!
    First green week of this year!

    £8.94 spent from my pledged £25!:D

    Going to go for £10 this week.
    Debt Free as of 17/01/2009 Turtle Power!!

    EF Challenger #3 £1543.72 / £5000
    MFW 2024 #100 £1300.00 / £10,000

    MFiT #40 Jan 2025 Target - £99,999.00
    Mortgage at 30/09/22 £113,694.11 | Mortgage at 24/01/23 £110,707.87
    Mortgage at 21/04/23 £107,701.01 | Mortgage at 20/07/23 £106,979.65
    Mortgage at 04/10/23 £106,253.77 | Mortgage at 10/01/24 £105,324.57
    Mortgage at 01/04/24 £104,424.73 | Mortgage at 01/10/24 £103,594.98
  • tudorfan22
    tudorfan22 Posts: 436 Forumite
    so far out of £25 i have spent £15.81, last week i went £1.81 over. will have to reign it in and have afew NSD!
    )

    :beer:
  • pariskate
    pariskate Posts: 300 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    So far today I've spent 8€ on food for lunch at the bakers. Not essential so out of this budegt. I will be buying food later but that's accounted for.
    Saving to pay the tax man
  • kinkypixie
    kinkypixie Posts: 129 Forumite
    Mmmm, I think I'll give this a go. Weekly budget is £14, (it's a Friday-Friday thing) linked in with pay day and the serious need to budget!! :T
    LBM - March 2007
    Total debt Jan 2008 - 23,535.62 (£7050.74 - Student Loan):eek: [strike]£16,484.88[/strike] £13,762.86 (NOW) total debt :cry:
    Proud to be dealing with my debts - DFW NERD No. 457 Weekly budget £21.68
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