Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

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rathga - £15 a day!!!! :eek: faint, swoon, choke etc!

have you heard about the adopt a jumble-bee scheme? you could give up the food for just one year and adopt me for over 26 months!!!!! i would make you a lovely packed lunch, and you could keep me by your desk at work so i could make you coffee whenever you wanted

scary fact - one years work food budget also = about 7 and 3/4 years of my all-in food budget :eek:

mumsy - bingo starts at midnight tonight, and lasts for 24 hours :eek:

i have got a reputation from the young people on my course as a mad frugaller - i found 2p and was very excited, and they discovered that my lovely new coat cost me 4p.....:rotfl:

sophiesmum_2

Congratulations Marru:j :j :j

Rathga:eek: If I spent that daily at work that would be almost 1/3 my wages just on snacks:o You could have a cracking holiday each year with the money you would save by taking in your own stuff:rolleyes:

Had a lovely day today , took my oldies to Manchester to see Joseph, then to a carvery for tea on way home. Free ticket to show as organiser and carvery and drink was only £4.60 so quite a frugal day out.Went during work time too so even got paid for going;) Took sweeties and drink in my bag mse style to show:rolleyes:

going to check out future shows for them once I have caught up with everyones threads.

mumzyof2

Bingo tonight at 12 woohoo... i might stay up just for that lol. does anyone know how i subscribe to thats life, chat and take a break magazine? ive tried the websites with no joy. I want to save money as i buy them all each week. and would save me money

Mollymop5

Evening everyone.I'm feeling better today though I've got a terrible bruise from the needles!!!
Here's my totals for this month
Groceries £198.06 ( a little over budget)
Essential Bills £137.97
Other items £173.76

My total spend this month is £509.79
My total spend so far is £1908.32 :j

This means I have £3662.08 left of this years budget and a monthly allowance of £457.76.Quite managable I think Grocery budget needs to be kept in check this month.

CharliesAngel

just been on the bingo site vic reeves advertises... i'm sure u all know the one... got me free tenner and won 57 pounds! woooooh. best save it if i'm going to be skint..... :beer:

CA x

Frugaldom

Mollymop5 wrote: »

...My total spend so far is £1908.32 :j

This means I have £3662.08 left of this years budget and a monthly allowance of £457.76.Quite managable I think Grocery budget needs to be kept in check this month.

:rotfl: :rotfl: My total spend to date is £1903.62 which means I've spent almost half my 4k budget in one third of the time! :rotfl: :rotfl:

I need to wind some free bingo! Lemmee at 'em, if only I could stay awake for 24 hours!!

Penny2myName

Total spend for 01 Apr 2008 - 30 Apr 2008: £546.07

TOTAL FOR ANIMALS £6.89
TOTAL FOR BILLS £334.89
TOTAL FOR BIRTHDAY GIFT £3.24
TOTAL FOR CLEANING £2.01
TOTAL FOR COLLEGE FOOD £2.50
TOTAL FOR DIY £59.28
TOTAL FOR FOOD £52.91
TOTAL FOR OTHER £4.71
TOTAL FOR SCHOOL £10.50
TOTAL FOR SCHOOL UNIFORM £17.00
TOTAL FOR TOILETTRIES £38.56
TOTAL FOR TRAVEL £13.20
TOTAL FOR TREAT £1.88
TOTAL £546.07

Bills alone seemed to take this months up.



Initial amount to spend = £4000 over 366 days, average £76.50 per week
New balance = £2227.36 over 245 days, £63.63 per week. £281.82 for May

Just short of £22 a week for fares and shopping after taking bills out of equation:eek::eek::eek::eek:

looby-loo_2

Hi everyone
I hadn't read this since page 47 and couldn't beleive we are on page 54. It's just taken an hour to read and thank all the posts. My silly sence of order mens I can't miss any out.

Bad things - I left the greenhouse door open and heated the village last night. Then I forgot to get cat litter so phoned DH to get it. Cats have luxury cat litter from village shop. I thought he would go to petcity.

I've done a spreadsheet of spending but I'm still not sure what to include/not include

April food - £306 which I'm really fed up with. It does include 15kg bag of rice
April stuff - £86
April bills - £284
April DH beer - £140 mad!!!

March food £163
March stuff £48
March DH beer £188
March bills £211

Feb food £140
Feb stuff£ 44
Feb bills £265
Feb DH beer £85

Jan food £265 (includes 'back to uni' boxes x 2)
Jan stuff £82
Jan DH beer £73
Jan bills £376

I wish I could do the shopping but as DH is 85% retired he keeps popping in for bits without looking in the cupboard first, always buys brands and then packaged cakes and biscuits, oh well, at least I have a job to fund it and I'm saving my target each month. This is my 'moving house fund' for when I retire to my small holding (well I can dream too)

bails

Too right Looby, we all gotta have dreams!

Well done on the bingo win CA, great timing and well deserved!

JumbleBee, a 4p coat? How fab!!

Oh dear, I seem to be up to start playing bingo...off to bed sharpish (after booking a few games, just in case :rotfl:)

Janey51

Think its going to be a strange day :rolleyes:


Trod on a dead mole at the foot of the stairs....courtesy cat no 1
Trod on some guts in the kitchen....courtesy of who knows
Can smell a funny smell suspiciously like something dead in the living room (husband in bed so not him)

Happy May Day :j

Congrats to all who have had good news.
Good luck to Bingo sad people. Please remember rule number one:

You have to be drunk to win :rotfl: I think I am still in the lead with my £400 :j