Comments on: $30 Challenge: Conclusion http://andrewbevitt.com/2009/03/01/30-challenge-conclusion/ shakin' up noth-ink Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:19:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: AndrewB http://andrewbevitt.com/2009/03/01/30-challenge-conclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-48 AndrewB Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:28:55 +0000 http://andrewbevitt.com/?p=242#comment-48 FWIW if you read some of the posts about the group that participated in the challenge, it seems they did have a hard time of it, at some points. It also looks like they were more interested in just eating, not necessarily, eating RDI recommended amounts. I'll be going shopping today for some food for the next few days ... I'd expect I will spend easily $75+ and then still need to buy for the weekend. To put that in context though: I will be buying fruit for the fridge at work and food for the fridge at home. As for the book... as long as Brad doesn't do the last grammar proof. FWIW if you read some of the posts about the group that participated in the challenge, it seems they did have a hard time of it, at some points. It also looks like they were more interested in just eating, not necessarily, eating RDI recommended amounts.

I’ll be going shopping today for some food for the next few days … I’d expect I will spend easily $75+ and then still need to buy for the weekend. To put that in context though: I will be buying fruit for the fridge at work and food for the fridge at home.

As for the book… as long as Brad doesn’t do the last grammar proof.

]]> By: bradb http://andrewbevitt.com/2009/03/01/30-challenge-conclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-47 bradb Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:42:42 +0000 http://andrewbevitt.com/?p=242#comment-47 Arhh the $30 challenge. I guess the thing is we decided to make it $30 in the first place because we thought it was possible to achieve. To put it in context though, me and Kate spend $38 dollars on food when we went camp for 2 days, not include chocolate, non alcohol wine (yes things got wild), oil, salt, pepper and bbq sauce (which we already had), a leather jacket (which Kate caught) and two paddle pops which we brought for a $1.5 each (to support a local struggling business). Moreover, i spent $130 at Harris Farm late last week while shopping, and no i didn't get a car, just food. All in all i think it a fair impressive effort, although there would be many a person that live off $30 week, every week, for three years, and then they finish uni... It seems that the $30 a week challenge is being take up by others now. http://disposable-income.blogspot.com/2009/02/30-week-challenge.html This guy is trying to do that same thing, however in America using USD, which we all know is worth about $2000 AUD, so it shouldn't be to hard. Anyway i guess if anything is to be learnt we live within our means and general that means, means wasting lots of money AND THEN we complain cause we don't have enough money. Where if we live a life of non excess and didn't waste any money, we would have more to spend on things we want, like nice food. HANG ON i just got it. Right, so with our $900 dollars from Kevin, we publish a book of all of Andrews recipes and helpful tips so people can use his knowledge to live off $30 a week and hence survive the economic crisis. Its perfect - keeps all the money in aus, possibly makes us money and its a noble cause. We could call it A week, $30, yourself and an economic crisis, how to all get along. We will talk about this later... Arhh the $30 challenge. I guess the thing is we decided to make it $30 in the first place because we thought it was possible to achieve.

To put it in context though, me and Kate spend $38 dollars on food when we went camp for 2 days, not include chocolate, non alcohol wine (yes things got wild), oil, salt, pepper and bbq sauce (which we already had), a leather jacket (which Kate caught) and two paddle pops which we brought for a $1.5 each (to support a local struggling business).

Moreover, i spent $130 at Harris Farm late last week while shopping, and no i didn’t get a car, just food.

All in all i think it a fair impressive effort, although there would be many a person that live off $30 week, every week, for three years, and then they finish uni…

It seems that the $30 a week challenge is being take up by others now.

http://disposable-income.blogspot.com/2009/02/30-week-challenge.html

This guy is trying to do that same thing, however in America using USD, which we all know is worth about $2000 AUD, so it shouldn’t be to hard.

Anyway i guess if anything is to be learnt we live within our means and general that means, means wasting lots of money AND THEN we complain cause we don’t have enough money. Where if we live a life of non excess and didn’t waste any money, we would have more to spend on things we want, like nice food. HANG ON i just got it. Right, so with our $900 dollars from Kevin, we publish a book of all of Andrews recipes and helpful tips so people can use his knowledge to live off $30 a week and hence survive the economic crisis. Its perfect – keeps all the money in aus, possibly makes us money and its a noble cause. We could call it A week, $30, yourself and an economic crisis, how to all get along. We will talk about this later…

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