Daily Spends – A Diary of Spending Habits

If a money chuck could chuck money?

I’ll tell you . . . Approximately £130.00 over the weekend. I just don’t know where it went.

I wasn’t been frivelous, there was just lots of ‘must do’s’ required:

car bulb
new clothes for children
groceries
fuel

Nice day yesterday. Took a half-day to go watch the children’s Chistmas play. Learned not to give the ‘thumbs up’ during a solo as it results in crying:

Fuel – £20.00
Breakfast – £2.76
Lunch – £1.76
Groceries – £16.56
Pizza & chips – £5.99 (lamb, mushroom & black olive)
Total = £47.07

Wooo hoooo. Payday on Thurs and still had a little bit of cash left to treat the kids this weekend. We didn’t spend much though. Just kept it simple with some nice food and swimming:

Beers – £10.00
Alcohol free wine – £4.00
2 x swimming sessions – £7.50
Groceries – £23.50
Hospital parking – £1.50 (my son decided to do surgery on himself)
Papers – £1.50
Fuel – £10.00
Total – £48.00

Top weekend had by all

Might have a bit of a blow out tonight. Spend a bit of cash on the old Winicus Winicus and Ham.

Bottle of Wine: £5.50 (cheap rioja)
Lambrusco: £2.45
Serrano Ham: £3.45

Others from today:
Fuel: £15.00
Breakfast: £1.50

Have a happy weekend.

OK! So I’ve been laying low for a little while due to work commitments, but I’m defo going to keep up with this malarkey from now on. And just to prove I’m up for it, here’s a run sown of spending this weekend:

Saturday 16th Feb & Sunday 17th Feb:
£20.00 – Fuel
£19.50  – Groceries (eggs, bacon, paper, wine, beer, chocolate)
£3.00 -  DVD rental
£4.35 – Chips for lunch
£28.00 – Daughter’s new shoes
£74.85 – Total Spend

Not bad for a weekend spend . . .

Another big shout out to Trying2Save for making me feel ashamed for not keeping up with te blog.

Seen as it’s payday I’m going to treat the Wife to something special. It will have an impact on the spend.

Wednesday 30.01.08
Fuel – £15.00
Lunch – £2.20
Gift for Wife – £45.00
Total Spend – £62.70

Could have left
Nothing
Could have saved total = £0.00

Hi there. Daily spends is my new blog where I’m going to keep track of my daily spending habits. Every so often I’m going to look back at what’s been spent and see where I can make some changes.

I’m gonna start with yesterday’s spends. A cold January Sunday with not much to do except spend a little cash:

Sunday 28.01.08
Petrol – £10.06
Portion of Scallops from chippy – £1.76
Supermarket Shop – £9.96
*Wine
*Nappies
*Ice Cream
*Apples
Total Spend = £21.78What could I have left?:
Scallops – £1.76
Wine – £2.25
Total I Could Have Left = £4.05