How much money have you spent today?

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I ask this because I have spent nothing today. Exactly £0.00. I'm not sure this has ever happened to me. I don't smoke, really, any more, and that helps. Even on Christmas Day, I always manage to nip out for something, but not today - mostly because I am feeling quite skint and nice people made me soups.

Anyway, how much are you yourself spending today? Please itemise.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

buck and a quarter on a diet coke from the machine at work. I was getting the nods after lunch and needed some caffeine.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

$1.90 for coffee + $1 tip

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

eBay listings: approximately $16.00

― derekerdman (Derek Erdmany), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

I go days without spending money. I still have twenties with the small Jackson portrait.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

£13.95 at M&S

two packs prawns
two fillets salmon
jar of roast garlic flavoured mayo
pack of spinach

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

£6.38. Bottle of Balsamic vinegar and a haircut.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

about $18 on coffee, a bagel, some orange juice, and lunch. too much.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

$3.00 for an MTA day pass (good for train and bus)
$11.82 for lunch (Chicken Club sandwich) and an iced coffee. I was lazy over the weekend and didn't get a chance to stock up on food to take to work.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

my ATM card stopped working this past weekend and i had close to no money on me from friday night until about noon today. i had to go out to my bank in pasadena to order a new card and cash a check. so:

DASH bus from school to 7th/metro red line station = 25 cents
red line ride to union station = free (honor system)
gold line ride to memorial park station = free
two tacos and a soda @ king taco = $4 and change
gold line ride back to union station = free
DASH bus to "south park" district = 25 cents
37 bus that dropped me off on my block = $1.25 (i splurged)

― the starbucks in the forbidden city (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Breakfast: $4.28
Used book store: 1.89
Copy shop: $117.95
Post office: $118.22
Grocery store: 13.82

That should do it for the day. The copy shop and P.O. were expenses that happen 6x/year, not an everyday kind of thing.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

nothing, because my husband paid for lunch.

― patita (patita), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

About $12

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

$3 for grilled cheez & confetti jello stuff from break truck @ 10:30 am
$3.25 for In-n-Out cheezburger & med. diet coke after picking up truckload of coworkers @ 2 pm.

That's probably it for the day; I've got plenty of groceries to cook up for dinner tonight.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

$0, because I'm trying to make the money I have right now last until Friday. I've been overspending lately.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Today will mark the second straight day spending $0. Which is fine, after spending $93 Saturday on books, cds, two tickets to Marie Antoinette, and a haircut.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, http://www.eyeballkicks.com/images/ournoticeboard_04.gif ,

I spent $9.82 on Otto Klemperer's 1964 recording of Die Zauberflöte and, let me tell you, I am disappointed. This is no Smurfs.

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

$8 on a Greek salad with grilled chicken for lunch.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

i havent spent a thing yet, but soon i will go watch monday night football at a bar and buy some beers

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

$81.00

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

£4 on hummus lunch
£33.48 on two CDs and a book from Amazon
£2.15 on coffee
£3.44 on halloumi and V8

On the positive side, I made £9 playing poker, so overall I am £34 worse off than yesterday. NB I very nearly bought plane tickets today which would have changed things a bit.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

$5 for lunch (sammich)
$10 for dinner (Qdoba)
$35 on four CDs at Tower closing sale
$16 for three magazines at Border's
$6 ticket to American Hardcore, $3 bottle of water

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

- $3.00 for the ticket from South Pasadena to Pershing Sq. I realize that this is mostly unnessecary, as I have only been asked for my pass four times in the five months I've been here, but I ehar the fine is $250, which is a lot more than $3.
- $3.00 for a smoothie downtown.

I still feel guilty. Too much money for an underemployed dude.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

$4 for lunch (Indian food from the trucks by my university)
$5 for used copy of 400 Degreez

― 31g (31g), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

$0, but a $10.50 case of black label is in my immediate future.

― John Justen will insert a ship in your cat for no additional fee (johnjusten), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

two newspapers - $1.00
lettuce - $1.29
beer - $2.50
oil/filter/spark plugs/air filter - $32.00
gas - $19.00

so about $56 bucks

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

10.30 am: 41p - milk.
7.45 pm: about £7 - beer and fags to take to band practice.
10.30 pm: £2.50 - beer at pub after band practice.

I spend too much, argh.

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I shall not be spending anything today, but yesterday's retail therapy more than makes up for this (in Aussie dollars, which is like 5 cents in US currency):

- 3 short-sleeved tops, 1 on sale - $79
- 2 purses on sale, non-leather - $60
- 2 necklaces for my mum - $23
- 2 chuppa-chups, 1 strawberry & cream, 1 cola - 60 cents

Grand total of $162.60

― salexandra (salexander), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot - $0.50 for a newspaper.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

$0, because I went grocery shopping and did laundry yesterday.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

about 26 dollars

food for me and my sister
pregnancy test
2 beers

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

$27.00 (food for work, but to be reimbursed)
$11.00 food for home, but to be chowed on.

― rems (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

$29 for gas
$5.99 for a Webb Pierce cd(ok but kind of a letdown, it's from recordings he made in the 70's, and it's coming off the ledger when I return it tomorrow)
$25.99 for The Carter Family: 1927-1934. 5 discs!!!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

Is this because of that money feature in NYMag? I was flabbergasted at what some of those people spend money on in a day.

$6.00 - sandwich for lunch
$3.00 - machiatto
$30.00 - Hebrew tutor

I'm pretty sure that was it

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

$11.00 - gas and oil. $6.00 oil because my SO's car has an oil leak and i needed to drive his car to school because my car's left tailight is out. Somehow this makes sense, as opposed to fixing the problems.
$1.49 for a diet coke - from a convenience store - which sent me into shock because i still think sodas are only going to cost a buck.
$5.69 for cigarettes.
It's funny (both ha-ha and weird) when twenty dollar bills take flight from your wallet and leave you with one bill and a few coins.
I know, the price of the cigs could have bought me a nice...ceaser salad at at a cafe, or what not.
Farewell, my little twenty dollar bill/friend.
I hardly knew ye.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Free NY Times from my dorm
Free coffee from the dining hall (yea styrofoam cups!)
I don't think I spent a goddamn thing today.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

About $68 on new running shoes
$22 on a haircut
$10 on hand lotion that a guy in the mall convinced me to buy
$58 on groceries

So $158? Not a typical day by any stretch. I do all my shopping in one go since it's a bit of a bike ride to get out to where the shops are.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny (both ha-ha and weird) when twenty dollar bills take flight from your wallet and leave you with one bill and a few coins.

I don't remember where I read this, but apparently crisp $20 bills used to be known slangily as "yuppie food coupons" - this was when ATMs were not as widely used, I guess, and the joke was about the fact that yuppies were always stuck splitting the bill where no one had anything but 20s fresh from the ATM.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

If this had been a regular weekday I'd have spent about $15 on lunch and tram money but its a public holiday today, so:

$12.10 on a pack of smokes. Thats all.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

For one pack?!

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

$10 lunch
$1.50 orangina (smuggled into movie theater)
$10 borat
$40 nice bottle tequila for friend's birthday

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

$32 eBay item
$100 food shopping (including $40 worth of blue eye cod)

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

For one pack? Yeah. Dont forget our weaker dollar; plus that was a pack of 30, plus smokes here are taxed up the wazoo, like that stops anyone. I can get them for $10 if I look around, I'm lazy tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

including $40 worth of blue eye cod

Fuck seafood's expensive now :( I love atlantic salmon but I cant buy it like I would chops or chicken, so annoying.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

$5 korean pork&shrimp rolls for lunch (cost less but my friend bought on his card and i gave him a fiver for it)
$5 burger + beer special at local bar
$4.66 two more happy hour beers at same
$$ red bull+vodka local bar dj night in immediate future

― berryman (berryman), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

$1.64 for a cup of coffee
$1.85 at vending machines (bottle of water and cookies)

― Ivan G (Ivan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

$1.60 for bagel
$2.50 for bus fare
$4.10 total

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like the jingle jangle of the coins in my pocket. I also have to have the coins to pay for parking (often), but i like spending the disrespected coins - the pennies, the nickels, the dimes - in many service-for-need negotiations.
Ergo, i like to spend pennies. To the annoyance of many a cashier, oh well. Sorry! i try to count them out asap!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

$4 for subway to and from work
$9 for delivery order from burritoville (vegetarian sloppy joe, inna wrap)
i'm pretty sure that's it. but it's misleading, because for breakfast i had food in the house that was bought in grocery bills earlier in the week, and now i'm drinking wine i paid for two days ago.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

$0.00

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

about 26 dollars
food for me and my sister
pregnancy test

So what did it say???

I have spent zero euros so far. But it's not yet nine. I'll probably spend about 40 euros or more on clothes for Ophelia and some more knitting material today.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday I spent a total of €15, just on lunch and sundries. Too much.

Today I am going on holidays, so I will probably at least triple that.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

I can go for a few days without spending anything. Home-made packed lunch, food from the freezer at night, everything else is on bills.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I try not to spend money during the day

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

but it's misleading, because for breakfast i had food in the house that was bought in grocery bills earlier in the week, and now i'm drinking wine i paid for two days ago.

Well if we're going to do it like that we've each got to count our pro-rata rent/mortgage payments, utility bills, etc.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

bought an lp online -- with shipping that's approx. $39 (it was actually about 21 pounds)
got some shoes for my girl online -- $42, no shipping, hope they fit!
burrito and soda for lunch -- $5.25 + $1 tip.
2 double espressos over the course of the day -- $6.50 with tips (i always tip at least a dollar for coffee).

yesterday i only spent a few bucks at the farmers market but shit that was a lot of $$ for me right now.

often, i spend more the less i have.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Today : nothing so far (but it's only 9.15am).

Yesterday : I got a bit bored with work and ended up having a bit of a spending spree on ebay, buying (for myself) four pairs of very pretty silver/marcasite/gemstone earrings for just £14 and a Sizzix Die Cut machine (it cuts card shapes, for all your cardmaking and scrapbooking needs) for £28 (but they're £100 new!! I got me a bargain!)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

so far 15p on a coffee, will keep you up to date.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

£1 -- but that's oyster money, not actual cash.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

How long before someone trumps everyone and goes "£200,000. I just bought a house"?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing so far today.

Yesterday I spent £3.30 on a turkey & cranberry sauce sandwich, a Dairy Milk bar and a smoothie. But we also got our groceries delivered from Tesco so that would be about £56 charged to my card.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

i do £0.00 quite often - buy food for the week's lunches on monday on the way to work (about £15) and it's usually thursday before i run out of milk or bread or something and pop to supermarket on the way home (thursdays, fridays i buy the paper as well). i walk to work as well so no transport costs.

um, that reminds me, i need weetabix...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Most days I do £0.00 - unless I'm going out to the pub or dinner or whatever afterwards. I buy travelcards by the week, ditto groceries (and I bring my lunch from home most days).

Occasionally I'll drop £1.80 on a sammich from Don Quixote, but if I'm not going out in the evening, I don't spend anything during the day. Sometimes it's good to have one of those jobs where you barely ever leave the office.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

40p - sesame snaps.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Working away, so I got a brkfst (Pancakes/Sausage/latte meal), £2.59

But if I was running late, today would have been a £0.00 day.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I were able to do the 'bringing lunch from home' thing. Thing is, when I get home in the evening the last thing I want to do is sort out tomorrow's lunch. Also I quite like not deciding what to have until five to one.

There's something in the back of my head that doesn't really count food as 'spending money'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I were able to do the 'bringing lunch from home' thing. Thing is, when I get to work, I have eated it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

I sort out lunch once a week - either I make a pot of curry and stick it in tupperware in the freezer, or else I buy 4 or 5 readymeals. I can't be bothered to buy lunch every day! Too bloody expensive!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

12 euros for a dress and 5 euros on hat (for Ophelia from H&M)
3 euros on yarn (so acrylic it'll melt in the sun)
about 2 euros on minced meat
about 1 euro on cumin
5 euros on circular knitting needles

26 euros in total.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

when i was really broke i proved to myself that i CAN make and bring in my own lunch every day. it bothers me that i can never muster up the willpower to do this now even though i know i should.

i have only just woken up so nothing today yet. yesterday, oyster money apart:

£3.70 on haloumi & babaghanoush wrap for lunch
£1.70 on crappy sainsbury's sandwich on way to lovelife
£5 on doggystyle cd from mvc
£7 on drinks at lovelife
£6 on drinks at the t bar

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

How long before someone trumps everyone and goes "£200,000. I just bought a house"?

Where is this place where you can buy a house for £200,000????? I must move there immediately.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Rollandsausage = £1.10
Diet coke 330ml = £0.55
Hueg Latte = £2.00
newspaper = Free!
1GB mem stick + book from amazon = £15.98

Total so far = £19.63* and I haven't even had lunch yet!

*approx $3000

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Where is this place where you can buy a house for £200,000????? I must move there immediately.

Er, most places?

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

...that aren't London or the Southeast?

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Today - nothing so far, will doubtless buy multiple beers at Yo La Tengo show later

Yesterday - copy of Plan B (£3.30); jar of shallots and jar of caviar (50p each from almost-out-of-code bin in food hall!); Offenders CD (£6.49 on eBay, not actually paid yet)

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

£1.00 Oyster debit - 468 bus to Croydon
£1.25 on Independent and bottle of Evian (breaking a tenner in a newsagents)
£3.50 on birth certificate
£0.80 Oyster debit - 468 bus to Upper Norwood

TOTAL £6.55

That should be it, I hope.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Today I've spent nothing yet.

Yesterday:
weekly train ticket: £11.40
crisps and bar of Fruit and Nut: 92p
banana: 45p
Crunchie: 45p

Too much chocolate :(
I bring my own sandwiches and fruit to work but always end up adding something.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

i spent £3.04 on 3 hash browns and a coffee.
my house cost less than £200,000. Londoners be funneh.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

...that aren't London or the Southeast?

Yes, that would be most places.

Even in the south east houses can be had for less than £200k, not in the most desirable areas but not exactly in shitholes either.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well, depends if you go by landmass or population. ;-)

I hear you, though. That's why I live in an unfashionable but freaking affordable part of shithole sarf London after all.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Seaside suburbs ftw. I think my area is a kinda fashionable commuter type place.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Where is this place where you can buy a house for £200,000????? I must move there immediately.

Here that's not such an outrageous price. A very tiny house (think 50/60 m2) with one to two bedrooms comes to about 170.000 Pounds (and will need a lot of renovation).

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly £200K wouldn't buy very much in rural Oxfordshire. I've just checked on that BBC property price site thing, and it says the average price (well, okay, for a detached place) is around £490,000. It's crazy!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

last weekend me & my friends were hit by the realisation that none of us will ever, ever, ever be able to buy our own houses :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that once, Lex. And look, even I can buy property!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

It took you till last weekend to work that out?

xpost to The Lex

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Our place was $110,000 back in 1998.

Now, I doubt we'd be able to aford our own house. Had we not, then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, even teh_kit owns a house. so very wrong.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

You could move to Scotland. You can still buy a two-bedroom flat round here and have change out of £50k (just)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

ailsa i had never actually properly thought about it! we were sitting in my friend dan's living room hungover, and looking at the property supplement in the papers, and it just...hit us.

i can't even conceive that i might one day actually have proper money to my name let alone...thousands of pounds of it!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

You do understand how a mortgage works, right?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

i've spent nothing today so far, but i haven't left the house yet.

yesterday, £12.60:

2 big slabs cheddar
2 packets noodles
1 box fairtrade tea
1 packet plain chocolate digestives
1 packet cream crackers
1 loaf bread
1 shameful sausage-shaped "austrian" "smoked" "cheese"
1 pack 4 toothbrushes
1 pack 4 vegetable soaps
500g posho organic rock salt

LOOK NO BOUZE!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

i spent about $19 on gas yesterday. thats it.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Can't up to 6 people get a shared mortgage these days?

I spent zilch yesterday. Today so far, 85p on the bus (for a 95p ticket, bad Madchen, but it's balanced out by all the times I've had to drop a pound coin into the box) and £7.50 to get a coat dry-cleaned.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Rollandsausage = £1.10
Diet coke 330ml = £0.55
Hueg Latte = £2.00
newspaper = Free!
1GB mem stick + book from amazon = £15.98

Total so far = £19.63* and I haven't even had lunch yet!

Lunch was a cheap n cheerful soup + roll for £1.20, taking my total so far to £20.83 but beer'n'food'football after work is going to bump that up significantly ~~esp with certain freeloaders cadging pies off me~~.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I spent another £3.50 or so on a sandwich, some nuts and some Rizla.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

just spent £6.97 in the local supermarket. i don't plan to do anything tonight so I'm hoping I'm not going to be breaking the £10 barrier today

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm done for the day.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

CD from ASDA?

xpost

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

1 shameful sausage-shaped "austrian" "smoked" "cheese"

I love this shit, it's my number one guilty pleasure cheese. When I was really young we used to buy it and I thought it was Posh Food for some reason, and so over 20 years later it still instinctively feels that way to me. Classic.

I just spent a tenner posting CDs to eBay victors and am about £100 up on the deal- pretty sweet

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ebay victims.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing today so far as I haven't left the house and have last night's dinner leftovers for lunch, but approximate expenditure planned:

£4 bus and return train fare to Glasgow
£4 for beer'n'burger cheapo dinner in pub
£5 on a couple of extra pints
£3 half-share of taxi to Celtic Park
£4 on pie and coffee at half-time to stave off cold and boredom (though I might not have to pay for these)
£5 taxi fare home

Total = £25

Xpost, Onimo, I bought yours the last time. You owe me!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

CD from ASDA?

nah, random boring foody stuffs for the week.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Someone paid over £15 on the new Meatloaf album, the same one you can buy in the shops, anywhere. People are weird

xpost

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Xpost, Onimo, I bought yours the last time. You owe me!

but but that was in payment for beer or petrol or something! cadging git! :-)

I may have to add a 45p double decker to my tally as the soup wasn't very filling :(

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

You could also point out that technically Noel Edmonds paid for it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Power of positive thinking innit. You got to _feel_ those numbers.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

i make lunch... in the morning. i get up at five though.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

There's something in the back of my head that doesn't really count food as 'spending money'.

Me too. Work would be intolerable if I started cutting back on canteen lunch and coffees.

Making your own lunch seems a fast-track to depression from the few times I've tried it.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

ymmv!

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Where is this place where you can buy a house for £200,000????? I must move there immediately.

You could get the house of your dreams and a couple of cars to go with it here for that price.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

nothing yesterday (or today so far)! hooray for conferences and employee appreciation bbqs!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I know someone who bought a 4 bedroom detached house for less than £200,000 the other week.

― treefell (treefell), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing today as I have a migraine and am at home. I really should do something about my £5/day Soho lunch habit, though - I could be saving over a grand a year bringing food from home.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing, but I have made a list.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

AND there's a guy outside grading the driveway.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'd give it 6/10.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

will you have to pay this guy?

I did not count various yarn and fabric purchases which I made last week and were now only charged/shipped. but alas I'm about to go buy some coffee so my $0 will go up a couple of bucks.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

about to spend another 15p on coffee

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

will you have to pay this guy?

Naw, he's just doing it out of the goodness of his heart!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, just had to pay my window cleaner £2.70

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

He must have seen you coming!

That belongs on the punchlines thread.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I drove 5ish miles this morning @ 24ish mpg/city @ 2.19/gal, so um approximately 40something cents? (Not a mathist.) Will do the same later, so let's just call it ONE GAS DOLLAR SPENT.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

opted for a can of coke zero instead of coffee, was 55p

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've been on ILE for a bit, which, as I'm self-employed, counts as lost wages.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

ONE GAS DOLLAR SPENT.

You spent the dollar when you bought the gas, not when you burned it.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I was going to count my football ticket for tonight but Celtic probably took the money out my account ages ago.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

ATP TICKETS £592 W00T!!!

plus a sandwich

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm.... £35 on a haircut, £25 on a new scarf and £12.98 on a 3-for-2 baby books deal.

= £72.98

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

damn that's some classy haircut.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

$17.25 on two skirts, two shirts, and a sweater.
Probably about $15-20 on ingredients to cook for nine people tonight.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

maria be thrifty!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I be spendthrift.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't have to go in to work today, so nothing so far. I'm going to shops in a minute though to buy spring onions, mushrooms and rizla.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

weird munchie!

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

about /the equiv. ov/ 9 eur = (taxi x 2) + (milk & cheese)

― tiit (tiit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

i might do E-COMMERCE splurge tonight - that would take it well over current £5-6 amount

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

£5.80

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

£1.05, all on chocolate and crisps. I am v bad.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

£2.50 on a coffee + breakfast roll this morning
£3.50 on a sandwich and drink for lunch
£150 on council tax I now have to recoup from my housemates

Not terribly exciting really.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I bought: one sandwich; one fruit smoothie; one packet of biscuits.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah a £0.00 day for me today

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

So what did it say???

It was positive, but it wasn't for me!

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

$2.11, large eggdrop soup.

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

$3 on iced coffee and bagel

spent way too much money last night

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

sheesh, now i gotta have egg drop soup

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nada for me thus far - the joys/sadness of temp work. I am at home listening to some music, sending out resumes electronically, and still digesting the HUGE breakfast the wife and I had.

So, I may spend around $5 by the end of the day. I need some diet cola at some point, and just buying a twelver of it is SO much cheaper.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

30p elastic bands
£1 some plastic folders
99p Coca Cola
49p KP peanuts
£15.79 on post (but stole a large padded envelope)
£4.40 launderette
35p crisps
89p orange juice
£35 overdraft interest

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

nothing today as I have the day off and am still home, but yesterday I spent 15.00 on two filet mignons (which I kind of ruined by overcooking) and about 20.00 on other assorted groceries including a dufflet carrot cake, salad, apsparagus and sprite. 35.00 on wine - a tetra box of french rabbit merlot (to go with the sprite and some fruit for a sangria) and a bottle of Yalumbra Grenache to have with the steaks (spicy and strong but not too bad.)

also yesterday I went down to Queen St and in about 4 stores I bought around 150.00 worth of beading supplies, mostly swarovski crystals as I'm making wedding jewelry for someone.

and 11.00 on a little sectioned white dish on a wood tray that will be an x-mas present.

also 60 something on fajita lunch (what put us on the sangria kick) but that went on Zac's card so I guess it doesn't really count for this thread.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I spend $1.50 on some soup for lunch, since I didn't have time to make any before I went out and voted this morning. Even at that price it was a rip off, really horrible salty soup. I should never eat again.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

What, ever???

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it was that bad.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I spent $2 today on a Mint Mocha Frappuccino. It was so fuckin' good; it tasted like I was drinking a Grasshopper cookie. Yuppie capitalism never tasted so great.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I almost bought Special Forces by Alice Cooper online, but have added it to my X-mas list instead.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

bottle of water - £0.50
Copy of Grauniad - £0.70
Copy of Angling Times - £1.40

total = £3.60 - quite a lot for me these days

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

ok, so about $18 on dinner ingredients and a few personal groceries. total of $35. (we're making a pumpkin curry and naan! i am so excited!)

anyone know how to make good-tasting egg drop soup, btw? i've tried dropping an egg into chicken broth and it hasn't quite come out right. haha.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Did you beat the egg, thin it with a little water, and swirl the broth as you drizzle the egg into it?

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

i did not thin the egg with water. maybe that's the problem.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

$0, forgot my wallet.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i should go get some lunch. i'll report back with an itemized receipt.

― the 48 states competition (1939) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

small stuffed pizza w/spinach and sausage: $17.17

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I could have a $0 day, but I sold a CD last night and had to ship it ($1.11), plus I had to get a loaf of bread and some onions across the street ($2.43). So, three and a half bucks today.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Still zero for me.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

nothing!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

£2.95 sandwich
£5.50 for 2 pints
£229.50 bills

Am not happy.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Rollandsausage = £1.10
Diet coke 330ml = £0.55
Hueg Latte = £2.00
newspaper = Free!
1GB mem stick + book from amazon = £15.98
Lunch - cheap n cheerful soup + roll = £1.20
Diet coke 330ml = £0.55
Pint = £1.90
Burgerannapint = £3.99
Pint = Free!
Taxi = £4
2 x Scotch Pie & coffees = £6
Football = PISH
Train = Free!
Taxi = £3

Total for yesterday = £40.27 and knocked out the cup :(

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Gerrys list really needs to be read by Jack Davenport: Taxi £4, 2x Scotch Pies & Coffees £6, Celtic losing to Falkirk on penalties...priceless

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

About twenty euros on diapers, baby food and spoon and fork (also for Ophelia)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

i was just wondering when were were gonna get a "....priceless"

£3.04 again, so far. same shit as yesterday.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

haha true, I'll end up on some crap chain email.

xpost

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Window cleaner = £2.70
Bus to Paisley = £0.80
Return train to Glasgow = £2.90
2 x pints while waiting for Onimo to turn up = £4.40
Overall spend in quiz machines while...= £2 (won some, but unwise reinvestment)
Burger and nasty pint = £3.99
Pint plus Onimo's "free" pint = £4.30
Taxi to football = £3
Pie + coffee = FREE!
Football = PISH!!
Text messages to brother moaning about pishness of football = £1.00
Train back to Glasgow = FREE!
Entertaining company of random mentalist on train = FREE!
Taxi home = FREE! (because my husband came and picked me up)

Total cost of day = £25.09

So my estimate upthread - NOT BAD.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

£1.20 on a sausage sandwich.
Need to get some lunch soon tho.

― Whoof Vague-o-Rama (noodle vague), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I went to Marks and Spencers!

Huge lovely yummy "rib tickling beef" sandwich: 3.20 (urk, damn these christmas limited edition, 1p goes to charidee deals - they always get me)
Big orange mango and apricot smoothie: 2.09 (BLERGH but I am desperate to up the fruit intake even if it is in processed pulp ripoff form)
Posh ginger biscuits - £1.65
TOWELS! 2 bath, 2 face, 2 hand - £9.50

Total of 16.62.

Estimate for rest of day - nothing unless I have a pint when I go to the pub to pick up the book I forgot there last week.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

So far today = nothing. Intention for rest of day = nothing.

(plan to slink off to pub for the afternoon scuppered by husband's insistence on going to the gym when he gets home from work)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i should go get some lunch. i'll report back with an itemized receipt.

that was yesterday. lunch was indian fast food and a diet coke, totaling about $8. that's all i spent money on.

― the 48 states competition (1939) (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

yesterday ended up as 30p because i splashed out on a packet of ready salted crisps on the way home.

still need weetabix. and pay this month's council tax. oops.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I missed out 30p to call a cab coz I left my mobile at home (first time I've used a payphone in about 6 years - thirty fucking pee!)

£40.57

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but that 30p can last you up to 15 minutes! Short phone calls = rip-off, longer phone calls = cheaper than my shitty PAYG mobile phone. Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

£1.99 on this week's copy of Kerrang magazine, which my eleven year old daughter begs me to buy for her every Wednesday.

£22 on ebay for two large remnants of really pretty floral Cath Kidston fabric, which I am going to use to make Christmas presents.

Nothing else so far, though I may need to get petrol later.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget the milk bottles and the pieces of rag, Ceej.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I predict a riot!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Starry's towels sound good value.

I have spent £2.65 today, on a sandwich and a packet of crisps. And I predict that my expenditure in the next two days will include £550 on rent and £10+ on organic veg box delivery. I keep wanting to have some exciting, extravagant purchase just to report here. But no.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

$80 on pysch
$3 something at Starbucks
probably another $6 here shortly for lunch.

boo!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

£81.87 yesterday - £80 council tax. £1.44 cornflakes (tescos didn't have weetabix), 43p cadburys dairy milk turkish delight

1.10 so far today, which should be everything, but i feel an amazon purchase coming on so...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

£0 so far today. Yay me!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, plane tickets to the US over Xmas. But it means I'll (probably) see a white christmas!!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Zero yesterday.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Zero yesterday. Not intending more than about £2 today.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

£16.65 on Thai food for colleague's maternity leave dinner (split between four, I had duck curry, jasmine rice, a drink that tasted of celery and loooked like fermented carrots - big mistake and shared some thai calamari yum)
£11.74 in Superdrug on 2 toothbrushes, new Pantene shampoo (which they SAID was 1.99 but scanned as 2.99 ARGH it had better be GOOD is all I'm saying), Simple shower creme/cream/wash whatever it's called, handwash, Neutrogena cleanser as the discount Clinique which feels LOVELY but has done ARSE ALL is all ded now).

STOP SPENDING

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is it that Pantene Ice Shine one? Cos if it is, it's fabulous!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha no, groan, I am a sucker for buying new things. It is "Brunette Expressions" - turns you into a 'glowing velvety' brunette apparently. Has fennel extract. WTF! I am a brunette idiot. Geez look at the the ingredients list, CHEMICALS OF DEATH. ARGH. Must not fall for this again and wash my hair with natural compost or something.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

yesterday:

£1.18 croissant, spinach & ricotta pastry
£2.75 assorted salad

today £0.00p again so far (and none intended)

hurrah!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Today so far :

£26 for Oyster Card for son
£50.45 for MOT Test
£40 (cheque) for daughter's school lunch card
£2.20 for a Coronation chicken sandwich
£10 'lent' to sister
£12 entry fee to school trivia quiz
£3.80 on guitar magazine

Total so far : £144.45

And it's only 3 o'clock! I still have to go to the supermarket later.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

£10 'lent' to sister

Aw! Heartwarming!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well she is my littlest sis.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shut up Lex with your spendthrift ways YOU ARE NOT IMPRESSING ANYONE - also you must be RICH from all this saving, you can buy me a drink when I next see you :)

This thread is, very addictive! I *must* have a day where I spend no money and record it on this! It's like SPENDAHOLICS (I heart Spendaholics and the frightening psychologist and the nice lady who always sends men go-karting instead of spending megabux on football tickets or whatever).

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

i saw Spendaholics once and the one woman was told off for spending £15 a week on sherbert fountains...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Reading that has made my teeth hurt.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has taught me that i spend/buy the same shit every day, and am therefore a dull person. Waaah. ;_;

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

£10 'lent' to sister

haha I love 'lent'. I 'lent' my mother $350 a few months ago and have been paid back $100 to date. honestly more than I ever expected to see back but the kicker was the memo on the check which read "half repayment" me: bitch needs to learn some math.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

so far today about £2.30 which won't be going any further either.

whereas yesterday was crazy and i think the total toppled over £200

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shut up Lex with your spendthrift ways YOU ARE NOT IMPRESSING ANYONE - also you must be RICH from all this saving, you can buy me a drink when I next see you :)

the price is that i am skipping lunch today! i have found that it is really easy to do this: i get absolutely unbearably ravenous around 11-11.30, which is obviously far too early to go for lunch (especially as i know that if i do, i will pay for it around 5-6pm with even worse hunger pangs). but by the time it's got to a decent time for lunch i've got used to my hunger and completely forget about it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's the inverted commas that warm my hart. They imply "I know I'm not getting this back, but I don't mind."
And tbh, that brings a tear to my eye, like that of teh_madonna holding an aborted baboi.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing today, but tomorrow is $50 at the dentist.

― patita (patita), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spendthrift

Contrary to what it sounds like, "spendthrift" actually means the opposite of "thrifty." It's one of those stupid words like meritricious and proscribe that are just designed to give vocab nerds a few extra points on the SAT.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - dry thine eye teh_kit! She's a sponging cow!

Not really.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wai 2 brake hart, Dr.C?

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, I can easily do that if I have breakfast, which I usually don't - the main reason for my spending money at lunch (and not bringing my own) tends to be UTTER BOREDOM if I don't have my trip outside to buy something nice. Just going for a walk doesn't give you the same hit as some soggy Pret bread. What a terrible life I lead!

Tomorrow I have to pay £175 for gym membership!

And yesterday I spent £40 on renewing antivirus thing! YEAH I spent money on it, and YEAH my computer is fine, so shut up! (I feel like a sucker)

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK, thus far today £4.70 on travelling into Glasgow and back for soul-destroying meeting with temp agency of doom. Luckily I have an entire box of wine at my disposal so can recover without spending any further.

Tomorrow = entire afternoon/evening in pub, probably. Lots of cash I don't have, but it is needed. Also I do believe Celtic are relieving me of £28 for the privilege of watching us get our arses whupped by Manchester Utd in a couple of weeks. Cheers :-/

I like this thread. It makes me conscious of what I am spending, more so than just looking at my dwindling bank balance for some reason.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

£7.39

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

70p (Bus)
25p (coffee)
£40 (haircut + tip)
£2.30 (Glass of wine)

Total £43.25 must try harder!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday: about £39 in M&S on a top, ring, earrings, facial wipes and a box of biscuits for the people at work who helped me stuff 3,600 envelopes.

Today: £1 on a 95p bus fare.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

$1.25 (mountain dew)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

£10.26 on assorted fruit, nuts, biscuits and a sneaky cheesy stick at somerfield
£2 on a cheese and coleslaw baked tattie
£xxxprobably £20 or so to come at birthday partee in camden boozer

average day. meh.

(no fags though, woo)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Third straight zero-spend day!

Will probably go get some smokes later today, though. So that's $5.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

madchen - nice to see your honesty, there!
Today,
$1.25 for parking (metered) at UMASS - I happened to get a spot that had 38 minutes left on the meter. This was cause for great joy.
$3.48 for bad fast food. i never do this, but i went to Burger King, and got a Happy/Kids meal...as usual, it has made me feel like shit. (physically).The toy did not make me feel any better.
$11.00 at Trader Joe's for groceries.
$10.00 gas.
So..just above $25.00.
Also - paid two loans (credit and student) for $218.58 - but deposited enough to cover everything AND discovered $150.00 in my saving account (the bank automatically deducts $20.00 a month to savings, and i forgot about it...so, free money!) Yes, i know it's mine, and not free, but it's my "november surprise"!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Walking to the library for a couple of books and loan requests felt better than not spending anything today.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

£40 (cheque) for daughter's school lunch card

What do they feed her, Fillet Mignon, Foie Gras and Oysters?

Today, 65p to post a CD and £5.63 for assorted groceries. So far it's been a very frugal week, apart from spending £28 on two tix for Bert Jansch who's playing at my sons school in a couple of weeks. I need to get two tyres for my motor tomorrow so that will wipe out any savings I've made this week.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's £40 for a month, Billy!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's clear that I'm spending too much on lunch. I must get into the habit of making sandwichs at home. Though, my fruit smoothie addiction is costing about £1.80 per day - I'm not sure if it'd be cheaper to make these at home.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hang on, Bert Jansch is playing at your son's *school*?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

$5.75 - Coffee(s) and tip
$108.49 (after the 15% rescue discount) - Critter supplies: four new litter boxes, new large carrier, new covered litter box for cats (with a high lip that will hopefully keep the rabbits from flinging out the litter), rabbit grooming supplies (three trimmers, two fine combs, one fine wire brush, styptic powder, penlight for candling - had to replace as my entire kit was swiped at an adoption event this weekend), bunny pellets, cat litter, large water bottle and hanger, etc.
$21.00 - six flakes of three-way hay for buns
<$100.00 - having little Willie Boy the Wonder Bunny neutered today and that should be under $100.00

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
Yes, apparently one of the teacher's knows Jansch quite well and has leaned on him to do a benefit to raise funds for the schools charity.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Impressed!

(yet you still get to crack jokes at Dr C's kids' school's lunch costs!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

$12.85 for lunch (greek salad w/ chicken & three cups of very good coffee @ cafe down the street) + $2.50 tip (ouch, expensive lunch)
$22.29 for random drugstore items

i hate this thread

― diane airbus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

$2 - cappuccino
$28.52 - gas

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

(not including some tolls, but I have EZ-Pass so they get billed at the end of the month)

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

£3 Vending machine lunch in the library
£5 Taxi
£7 Luke Haines ticket
£2.50 Vending machine dinner in the library
£2.50 Library book sale.

Coo, and I thought I spent "about nowt" today.

― stet (stet), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's interesting to note the differences between car users and public transport users.
Just saying.
Interesting, and something I have taken note of.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

$25.00 on train tickets and lunch

― panda may (panda_may), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am a car user, but car parking in the centre of town is quite expensive unless you are only going to be a short time in town. I wanted to remain flexible in terms of time spent in town*, hence not taking car. Turns out it would actually have been cheaper to take the car each time.

(*except Tuesday when I wanted to be flexible in terms of how much alcohol I consumed and could in no way have taken the car, though I wished at one cold and freezing point that I had)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bacon roll 60p Apart from lunch this could be all I spend today.

Like Billy, I need two front tyres for the motor within days. That's gonna hurt to the tune of about £160, I reckon.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

So far I've spent 7 euros on coke bottle (1 liter), butter, cocao powder (for Ophelia's evening dinner), butter and some fruit yoghurts.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

And not spending anything: I don't think I can manage that. :-(((( I'm crap at being thrifty.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Well, after a pretty thrifty week, yesterday I went nuts.

$46 for phone bill
$12 for happy hour drinks
$3.46 for a replacement sketchpad
$5.95 for fast food burrito
$10 and change for comic books
$5 for dvd rental and months old late fees
$24 for movie tickets for tonight.

ouch.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Idly curious as to what I've spent today so I'll note it down:

$3.50 cheese n tomato toasted bagel
$12ish on souv and chips lunch (which was blerg)
$80ish on groceries (tomorrows pickernick food inc hence more than usual)
$15 on cask o goon
$10 cigs

Ouch.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

£0.00 so far!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking of going for a £0.00 day since I am all choked up with the cold, but my mum's just emailed to ask me to post some stuff to her, so I'm going to have to go out and post a package to Spain. And I'm probably going to go and get a couple of lottery tickets for the EuroMillions mega-jackpot tonight while I'm at the post office. And, if I'm in town, I'll probably go to the pub. Also, Celtic have taken £28 out of my bank, so I guess that counts too. Bah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

**Also, Celtic have taken £28 out of my bank**

They're going to buy a new striker!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

And I'm probably going to go and get a couple of lottery tickets for the EuroMillions mega-jackpot tonight while I'm at the post office.

Ha - I just did the same thing! (Do they deduct higher-rate tax from yr winnings? Only, I'm not sure I can get by on £60m.) Also 82p for some microwave egg fried rice from Tesco Metro to go with my leftover butternut squash curry. I am going to the pub later though.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK, total yesterday:

Champs League ticket £28
Bus fare: £1.20
Two pints = Free! (pub quiz winnings - still another 10 free pints to go, hurrah)
Useless non-winning EuroMillions tickets = £3
Investment in pub quiz machine = £1
Winnings from pub quiz machine = -£13
Assorted leeks/carrots/parsnips for accompaniment to roast chicken dinner = £1.44

Total outgoings = £34.74
Total winnings = £13

Net expenditure = £21.74

Forgot to post my mum's package, boo, will have to go and do that today, spoiling an intended £0.00 day

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

about 16 euros on chinese take-out.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 11 November 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday was a mess for me spending...

$1.79 Mint Mocha Frappuccino (it tastes like drinking a THIN MINT!!!!!)
$3.49 Fries w/ garlic and mozza
$2 Bus fare to/back from the mall
$12.83 on TVotR's "Return to Cookie Mountain"
$34.99 on a pair of Levi Slim Straight 514's (Out of the hundreds of pairs they had I could only find 2 30x30's wtf)
$1.25 20 oz. bottle of Dr. pepper

Grand total of...I don't even want to think about it; I just spent $35 on a pair of jeans.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday:
Two tickets for The Prestige, $8
Dinner for 2, $18.29
Tank o' gas, $30.49
Used bookstore, $22.49

Today:
Breakfast, $4.38
Donuts for later, $3.87
Nursery (2 ginkgo trees, 1 bag "soil conditioner"), $130.83
Trip to this little mercado near the nursery I've been meaning to check out, $11.80 (Finally found the mojo criollo that Tep goes on about, plus a few other things including a bag of saffron for one dollar, wtf?!)

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 November 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Groceries: (£14.13)
Xmas present for my mum: (£82.99)
Poker winnings: £177.43

Net income: £80.30

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Saturday, 11 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

today

8.76 for the paper, a puffed wheat sqaure, a rasberry log, and two orange sodas

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Saturday, 11 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Today = £2 on completely useless 8-match accumulator at the bookies. Still nothing spent on parcel which remains unposted. Friend cooked us dinner and rented a DVD and husband drove there and back, so Saturday night out cost NOTHING! Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

dentist visit for fiancee: $750
blank dvds, 25 pack: $15
futurelove/sexy sounds or whatever & beyoncee single: $20

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Realized I am much happier when I spend money than when I try to save it.

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

$16.20 on breakfast;
$10 on ebay for pokeman card for S.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday:

£2.05 on bus fares
More free beer
£5 top-up on mobile phone

Total: £7.05

Today: £0.00 and I do not intend to leave the house, so it shall reamin £0.00 unless something super-exciting happens in the next few hours that requires me to go out

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Sunday:
£4.00 on socks (7 pairs so that works out as less than 30p per sock woo)
£7.00 on ingredients for risotto

Today:
£2.10 on coffee and a brownie for Matt who had come to visit me at work
45p on a packet of crisps.
£16.00 advance payment for work Christmas meal (let's hope baby doesn't arrive before 8th December eh)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I BUY JUJYFRUITS

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

£2 on a cassette single by a noise band. I am like a magpie, but for novelty instead of silver. That's gonna be all today though, I think

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure whether this thread has inspired me to walk more, or just stay at home and not spend any money.
Walk more, yes. I am trying to walk to buy cigarettes. It's a good start!
i am definitely trying to cook more, at home, or bring food with me on my daily travails, because buying prepared foods is fucking expensive.
Thank you, thread!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Filled the auto's gas tank this morning which was approximately $30.
Wrote out the check for the yearly paper delivery tip which was $60.
Driving home I'll spend $2.60 on tolls (took a different way into work).

Yesterday I spent nothing because I did yardwork and laundry all day.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

£2 on a cassette single

They still make these?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

$15.30 on enough Chinese food to feed me and my wife for two days.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Great thread for a (mostly) lurker.

$1 coffee (AM)
$2.75 Pepper Turkey/Provolone on a roll from the corner store. (Lunch)
$29.11 Fruit and Vegetable Platter fixings (to be reimbursed by work)
$2.50 Smoothie/Naked Juice Thing

Well, these things would have cost more had they been purchased about 20 blocks south.

― one six oh (one six oh), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

So far today :

£19.98 on oil for car.
60p on bacon roll.
90p given to daughter

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

About five euros on baby food.
And 120 euros on two passports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF man, 120 euros! I still can't believe it.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Argh so this thread is better than the singledom (!!) thread!

Cranberry juice - £1.35 (I do not have cystitis so no idea why I bought this!)
Bunch of clementines = 75p
Two bananas = 68p
CURSE YOU ORGANIC BANANAS
1 x "Beirut Express" haha salad = £2.85

Total = £5.63 which is GOOD going on this weeks ridiculous form urgh!

No more money for rest of day! I outta print this thread out on paste it on my fridge to remind me to BRING IN OWN FOOD for goodness sake.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, forgot about this.

Tuesday:
Bus fares: £1.10
Train fares: £2.90
Booze: £8.40
Pub quiz winnings = -£15

Profit = £2.60

Yesterday:
Nothing!!!

Today: about to go and put £10 petrol in my car. Need to buy a couple of pints of milk.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

About a fiver on breadrolls. That's Euros, you lot. Not pounds or dollaz.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa didn't you get a refund from Celtic because they took the CL direct debit a week early?

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

It is my birthday so I am hoping that people will GIVE ME MONEY, but so far it hasn't happened. So :

Sausage Roll : 60p
Daughter's running club subs : £9
Soldering iron : £5.10

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Soldering irons are only £5.10?

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah, I did. Hurrah! Actually today I have a cheque for £154 cleared into my account as well. However, tomorrow Celtic are taking that £28 back off me again, so it doesn't really count as money.

(happy birthday Dr C)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah HBDr.C

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

yes yes YES, happy birthday!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hey thanks! I am fecking OLD now.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Today:

Petrol in car: £5 (all the change I had)
Glasgow A-Z because I realised I left my old one at my last place of employment and I needed to get somewhere: £5.99
Two return flights to Malaga: £77.82 (I wuv EasyJet, they so CHEAP!)

Still haven't spent ANY money on food this week (I forgot about the milk when I was out and we had enough anyway)

Total spent: £88.81, which is not bad considering we're covering a week's holiday in there!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Belated Happy Birthday Dr C. I feel your pain.

Thursday, 44p to post a CD and that was all.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Today: not a penny. Brought lunch to work, train card's all taken care of.

Tomorrow: payday. Hundreds of dollars on new apartment supplies. My shopping list is now over 50 items deep.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday:
Satan (aka Wal-Mart), 79.42
Light/water, 30.75
Credit card bill, $6.95 (I wish they were all that small)
long distance bill, $13.08
Cable/internet bill, $120.09

Today:
Save-A-Lot, 6.50

Also today was big payday #1 of 2 for most recent magazine production cycle, so I'm struttin' with some barbecue, bills or no bills.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

$3.26 - 4 avocadoes, 2 apples, 2 bananas

spent a lot in my imagination though, mostly on shoes, dresses, guitars, amplifying and sound-altering machines, and a trip through asia. i am an imagination kabillionaire!

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

$20 gas
about $30 on premade cookie dough and premade roll dough (for daycare potluck), salad bar, bananas, diapers, etc.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

$2.50 on diet cokes (two)
$3-something for odwalla bar and large tea (breakfast)
$7-something for cold bbq chicken sandwich and salt/vinegar chips (lunch)
$14 (inc. tax & 20% tip) to get dinner delivered from decent-ish italian restaurant

i can't wait until i can move into a building that doesn't have pest control problems so i can start cooking again and save some money!

― lsd sky chefs (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

monday was £13.09 on groceries, £7.99 on magazines and £2.10 on a birthday card (already had the stamps so...)

tuesday and wednesday were both £0

thursday was 70p on newspaper, £4.02 on snackage, £6.49 on magazines (i do hate it when their cycles mean they are all out within a week of each other) and a bunch on boomkat (£12) and amazon (£18) (although i won't be charged until dispatch for those so...)

another 70p so far today. need milk (or i could steal it from the office, there are about 10 pints in the fridge)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Today might be a cheap one. Have pub plans, but also still have pub quiz winning vouchers to exchange for free beer. Have brother coming to stay overnight, so that's got to be worth him paying for dinner. Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

(actually Celtic are taking that £28 they gave me the other day back off me again today, but I'm not counting that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

six euros on salmon (YUM YUM)

about 21 euros on fruit and veggies (spring onion, mushrooms, pepper, chinese slaw (?), seedless grapes, strawberries, bananas, oranges, soy-somethingorotherthatidontknowinenglish and that's it oh and a pineapple)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Raffle tickets £1

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

£2.30 on a few of slices of pork from the butchers.

I may be spending £120,000 soon though (clearly on many, many slices of pork)

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

£498 on a new mortgage, £618 on house repairs and £1.50 on a lottery ticket.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and a pound on CAKE for Children in Need.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and £1 on a 95p bus fare again. That's £1119.50 before lunch - do I win?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Matt, buying a HOUSE? If so: YAY!

I spent almost ten euros on coke (one liter), schweppes tonic can and several pots of baby food.

Also one euro and a half on PLASTICKY knitting yarn. I am completely hooked. Can't stop buying things knitrelated. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

addendum: £18.22 on the two aforementioned books from amazon.

(thinks about writing that cheque to his building society just to trump madchen. does moving money to a different account qualify as 'spent'?)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

addendum2: and £11.55 for yesterday's boomkat order. still, will have some interesting post on monday morning.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing! Hooray!

But yesterday:

Lunch, Pokemon Blue Rescue Team for DS, Trail of Dead CD, Dinner...about £60.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

book (xmas gift) - 9.99
silicon cake pan - 11.99
lunch (salmon salad and mint iced tea) - 9.05
grey sweater/tunic thing from forever 21 - 19.80
groceries at whole foods (semi-sweet choc chips, acorn/butternut squash, eggs, milk, bananas, butter) - 11.76

sadly, the day is far from over.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

$2.08 on two pairs of gloves and a candy bar.

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in Belltown to see friends who I hadn't seen in months, so I've bought way too much food. Dinner last night at Black Bottle ($20ish), breakfast I bought a brioche at Le Panier (about $8) to make french toast at a friend's. Lunch from La Vita e Bella ($12), then we bought James Bond tickets for the Cinerama, and I bought a new fleece jacket at Patagonia (too $$$) and some fruit at Pike Place market (yay, $2). So I spent too much, but at least I squished in a lot of my favorite things to do here. and the $&#* expensive plane ticket to come here for 2 days: $550

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 19 November 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Today: Stayed in, fruitlessly agonized over idea for next film, to be shot in two weeks.

$8.07 on one pack of cigarettes.

Yesterday: Ditto.

― En I See Kay. (EstrangedNative), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

About £24 on classical CDs for my dad.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 November 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday: a high-spending day. £21 on petrol, £2.20 on a drink in a pub, £1 contribution to the funds of the meeting I was at in said pub, £8.20 for a pizza for me and a friend, £26 to get me and the friend into our favourite club, £1.40 on drinks whilst I was there.

I should also have spent £30-something on prepay toll tickets, because I'm all out now, but I didn't have time to stop for some.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 19 November 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody hell, checking the price, a book of toll tickets would have been £48.60. I'm glad I didn't get any!

(for 20, as opposed to £2.70 per trip without a ticket)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 19 November 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

£1 on a 95p bus fare. Again.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! I got away with 85p today.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Today so far :

Sausage Roll : 60p
Spare change for son : £1.50-ish
Daughter's cinema money : £10
Packet of Victory Vs : 59p

Total £12.69

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

None!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I've spent no money since Monday, but that will change tonight, as it is shoegazing and probably dinner.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

£2 on parking, and £113 on some new headphones, most of which I will get back by selling some other headphones.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

£6.73

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, wait, I forgot - I spent £27.50 or whatever on a travelcard this morning.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

not counting things like how much electricity or water i've used and based solely on cash spent- $2.50 for coffee and a donut from the bus station.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

biggest-spending month ever (but only about £3.10 today)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

£1 on a 95p bus fare (I got away with substituting 4 kronor for 40p on Tuesday, though). I predict that the chocolate machine at work will recive 45 of my hard-earned pence before the day is out.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

45? scandalous. i paid 40 for my Yorkie.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I hoped this thread wouldn't be revived! The GUILT!

Pack of raspberries and banana from the fruit stall: £1.75
3 seed roll = 37p
croissant = 72p
edamame bean salad = 2.09

THUS: £4.93

£113 on HEADPHONES?! Gibber!

xpost: I think some cash is going to be reserved for a Twix before Finnish class.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, Starry!!

Finnish class - wow!

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

after spending most of 2006 with just enough money to feed myself i can now live on nothing. so far this week i have spent £0.00p despite being rich as fuck (compared to last year).

however, this will all change on friday when i leave work and get mega drunk.

all in all, i think being poor for year has killed off my spending spree habit, in the olden days i couldn't leave a room without spending money.

― george bob (george bob), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

what headphone did you buy???

im looking for some new headphones in that price range...

― george bob (george bob), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I ordered some AKG K601s. They're normally nearer £160, but are pretty cheap from thomann.de.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Finnish class was paid for before xmas = £65 for the privilege of making strange sounds come out of your mouth which will be understood by people in a country I will probably never end up visiting at this rate - and Finns don't really care to talk much ANYWAY! Ridiculous!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

You should join my knitting class! Even though it's not a language class, everyone babbles away anyway! Sometimes people SHOUT and CRY. heh

Someone has to teach me not to spend money. I can't manage to go a day without spending money. I tend to buy food for the two days and, even so, I always seem to need something more (the second day). Today? Hmm, let's see... About four euros on sausages (myum myum) and about 1,40 euros on candy bars. Not bad for me. *pats self on shoulder* Good girl. (That said, I'll probably need to go buy some food for Ophelia and MORE CANDY on *moi*).

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

oh, nick.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

one day you will get into hornby, and i don't mean nick.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

no money yet today, but here's yesterday's tally:

-$4.95 for tuna sandwich
-about $18 for groceries (4 healthy choice dinners, 2 packages toilet paper, 1 bunch of bananas, 1 2-liter of coke zero)

― your eyes are like a cup of tea (get bent), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tram fare: £3.00
Latte: £2.30
Smoothie: £3
Panini: £3.75
Tea: £2.00
Chai tea: £2.75

Total: £16.80. Cafe days are expensive :(

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Starry - my friend says that if you do get to Finland, you'll find that they all speak perfect English and all the TV is in English, anyway...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing yet -- I'm barely up out of bed.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Nick - I'm learning the most pointless language dot dot dot evah, heh ho! It's still interesting, even if it means I have to start hanging out on Lordi messageboards to use it. Actually some advanced knowledge of Finnish might help me with Eurovision... but probably not! CHIZ!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

That, or obsessive LOTR messageboards where they actually talk to one another in Elvish... ;-)

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

$3 on coffee and a croissant.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I did it, I spent 45p on a Crunchie bar.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

$100 on my "graduation application." Nickel and diming bastards.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

hum. 3€ on a sandwich so far. but I will spend around 40€ more before I go to bed on champagne, cigarettes etc (I'm invited to a party).
I'm depressed by my inability to not spend money...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

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