moozies/paps weekly budget challenge ~ w/c 3rd feb

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Welcome all...

I hope you have had a great week and kept it low... and are you ready to be turned red/green? Everyone can join, just post a target in keeping with you/your debts/your spends, don’t worry about everyone else’s budgets. Then each day post on the daily spends thread and add them all up ready to post the following Saturday/Sunday. The challenge runs from Sunday to the Friday... Everyone welcome... Please don't worry if you have gone over budget and will be turned red it happens... to me more than anyone else.

Have a great week

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Good afternoon lovely DFWs

Now for anyone looking in, please feel free to join - the more the merrier! Basically, decide on the amount you want to spend up to from Sunday until the end of the working day on Friday then pledge it here and off we go! The challenge is about incidental spending and not for stuff that should be budgeted elsewhere such as bills, groceries, debt repayment etc but you decide what to include at the end - this is about changing your habits and improving your recording of your spends more than anything else.

Have a great week everyone and keep it low!!!

Moozie x

Last weeks thread ~ http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=708307&highlight=moozies+weekly+challenge

pap ~ £40.00 ~ £10.30
Gemmzie ~ £10.00 ~ £0.00
taka ~ £5.14 ~ £21.00
SarahNeedle1872 ~ £25.00 ~ £25.00
meyore ~ £10.00 ~ £50.00
juno ~ £10.00
Sea78 ~ £10.00 ~ £1.00
Casperthefriendlyghost ~ £8.00 ~ £1.47
babes21 ~ £40.00 ~ £28.92
aimme13 ~ £20.00 ~ <£20.00
hayley_bass ~ £40.00 ~ £160.00
ellerose ~ £15.00 ~ £14.00
redsquirrel80 ~ £20.00 ~ £30.00
savvykaz ~ £30.00
always_amazed ~ £20.00
Surfbabe ~ £20.00 ~ £17.81
ciara2712 ~ £15.00 ~ £20.00
Mandoo ~ £20.00 ~ £19.92
Batfink ~ £10.00 ~ £10.00
jammiejen ~ £20.00 ~ £25.00
Mupeteer ~ £30.00
hayley1471 ~ £80.00 ~ £79.76
TurnaroundSue ~ £20.00 ~ £18.20
pariskate ~ 25€ ~ 21€
mcjordi ~ £25.00
Lemon Tree ~ £15.00
sans ~ £300.00 ~ £153.95
x_raphael_xx ~ £10.00 ~ £0.00
tudorfan22 ~ £25.00
kinkypixie ~ £14.00

good luck all for the coming week :j

Surfbabe

Morning - I had £2.19 left from my twenty this week so please turn me green. Going for £20 again this week please.

Thanks

Sea78

Hi PaP - I think I can be green as I *think* I only spent £1!!!

Hurray!!! I think this is the first week I've ever managed to be successful.

Now, next week I'll be going across to my mum's which will either involve extra petrol or a train ticket, so I'll put my spends at £30. I also have to pay postage on a couple of items.

I really can't go over £30 so finger crossed!

Sea xxx

postingalwaysposting

Hi all... well i managed min spends seeing as i was on earlys all week and had to get home because i was too tired to do anything else :rotfl: woo hoo first green in a long time. This week i need glue/crickets/shampoo/rabbit foods/postage so i am going to say £30... wish me luck :rotfl:

redsquirrel80

Meh... overspent, £30 No excuses apart from laziness and too many 'lets go to the pub' evenings after work. Got £20 in my purse so I'll try for that again this week :rolleyes:

Mandoo_2

I just about made target with spending of £19.92p for the week.;)

Aiming for £20 again this week methinks.

Mandoo.

SarahNeedle1872

Hi Pap and everyone.... I managed to get bang on £25 this week, even managed to put a bit of change into the change pots! And that was with subbing OH again!

I'm on hols this week, and can't think of anything particular I need, so I'll go back to £10 this week please.

TurnaroundSue

Hi All ... Came in with an underspend of £1.80 - Yahoo!!! Mind you, not quite sure whether I'm cheating or not as we had a takeaway on Friday night (£18.80), OH spent on tools (£48.77), I also had to given DS dinner money (£10). Should I be including these in my spends or not? DS dinner money is covered in budget, OH doesn't normally spend very much at all, but had to buy some tools this week and takeaway came out of 'extras' budget - please advise!!! Many thanks - once I know the answer to my question, I will set my budget next week accordingly - also does this include food and petrol, which are already budgetted for?

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TurnaroundSue wrote: »

Hi All ... Came in with an underspend of £1.80 - Yahoo!!! Mind you, not quite sure whether I'm cheating or not as we had a takeaway on Friday night (£18.80), OH spent on tools (£48.77), I also had to given DS dinner money (£10). Should I be including these in my spends or not? DS dinner money is covered in budget, OH doesn't normally spend very much at all, but had to buy some tools this week and takeaway came out of 'extras' budget - please advise!!! Many thanks - once I know the answer to my question, I will set my budget next week accordingly - also does this include food and petrol, which are already budgetted for?

Sue anything that is budgetted for ~ ie school dinners/car maintance/petrol/food in your monthly budget then that doesnt count. If however you didnt budget for a takeaway then thats what the weekly budget is for. The same as if you oh has his own seperate weekly budget that wouldnt count. Its anything that isnt previously budgetted for or anything unessacary. I think everyone interprets the 'rules' differently anyways as i budget for crickets but i add them into this challenge iyswim...

x_raphael_xx

Woo! Nothing spent at all this week!
I'll go for £10 again I think.

babes21

Hello pap and everyone

My budget was £40 and i spent £28.92 :T. Could you put me down for £35 for this week please pap xx