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30 July 2009

July Spending Round Up

I nearly made it. I lasted for 5 days without spending a penny, but on day 6 the call of the coffee became too much. Never mind, I'm happy with how it went.

I had to get resourceful with the food at home, but apart from that, and having about 10 miles of petrol left in my tank Sunday evening I made it. I wouldn't want to do that every week though, it felt it a little too restrictive.

My spending outside of that week has been a little (naughty) high.

July Budget/Actual

£800 Bills (joint stuff here) / £800
£904.32 Loan / £894.23
£18.00 Sponsor/ £18.00
£171.18 Daughter/ £160.49
£180 Food/ £193.47
£60 Petrol/ £61.50

Extras:
Lunches and Coffee £17.01
Book £3.78
Pizza £20.99

August should be an interesting month as I have two weeks holiday. One week will be on holiday in Washington, the other will be spent at home painting our garden fence, if it ever stops raining. Holiday spending will come from the joint account, which I keep totally separate from my personal account, but I do want to have a frugal trip.

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4 comments:

  1. Going to Washington? How exciting. Its so pretty there. You have quite a flight. Make sure to bring some good reading material. :)

    You Budget seems to have gone well. I don't think you have slipped up too badly.

    I have actually gone 4 days without spending a penny except on petrol. My no spending is coming along quite nicely. Of course, I need to see how the weekend goes. That can be a challenge. :)
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  2. Thanks Christine, good luck this weekend :)
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  3. way to go, know how tought it is, no matter how hard you try there always seems to be bills.

    After another (5 times in 10 years) major move and holidays I am back into savings mode, feels good, I have 230 euros to last 2,5 weeks, 60 shopping and 40 petrol (per week) and abit of carefull planning should do it.

    nice part is we finally are building up our savings again.

    rob in madrid
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  4. Glad that the UK is not the only place that is having a wet summer!
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