April no Buy - Lets get an early start

Updated my post on page one.... as predicted, Saturday included Costco, so it was definitely NOT a no buy (although our cashback check from last year and a $30 return helped soften the blow). But stayed home yesterday and did yard work, so it was a no-buy.... and kind of planning another no buy today, but it will depend on DH's schedule.................P
 
Whoops..... looks like today will NOT be a "no-buy"..... I FELL into a sale on Disney Vera Bradley AND Disney Alex and Ani and did some shopping! (A few for me, a few for gifts.) I don't own a SINGLE SOLITARY designer/status purse, but couldn't pass up the sale on the Disney Vera bag!! And the Alex and Ani is a gift for my cousin.... oh well. There's always tomorrow for a no-buy!.........P
 
Back from a spring break trip…

April:
4/1: no buy #1
4/2: take out
4/3: haircuts, gas, warehouse club
4/4: last minute Easter groceries
4/5: no buy #2
4/6: groceries, field trip fees
4/7: no buy #3 (class for DS was canceled)
4/8: no buy #4
4/9: take out
4/10: no buy #5
4/11: errand day
4/12: birthday brunch for MIL
4/13: pretrip errands
4/14: vacation
4/15: vacation
4/16: vacation
4/17: vacation
4/18: vacation
4/19: home, but we needed groceries
4/20: the groceries we forgot yesterday...

5/10 no buy days
1/0 non-consumables (it was a really cute Easter decoration!)
 
April

1-oil change for car, luckily no other repairs needed!
2-No Buy #1
3-Had to drive to work since I was going out of town and pay for parking downtown :(
4-No Buy #2
5-Gas and small groceries to tide me over for the week
6-Paid for my entry in our company's team in a 5K, they reimburse me for half of it, but it's still not regular spending
7-No Buy #3
8-No Buy #4
9-No Buy #5
10-Parking downtown since I had to go out of town again
11-No Buy #6
12-gas to get home plus groceries
13-No Buy #7
14-No Buy #8
15-No Buy #9
16-Work Happy Hour
17-No Buy #10 I brought my lunch, but my boss decided to treat our team so I have lunch for Monday and didn't spend my own money!!! :cool1:
18-No Buy #11
19-No Buy #12
20-No Buy #13 My boss bought us lunch again and is apparently planning to do it until a major project is done next week, so I might meet my goal!

13/15 Days So Far
 


1 - spend, bought groceries for beach house and then bought an entire new ballet outfit for dd11 including shoes. Not strict strictly necessary but we do not have a ballet shop near our town.
2 - spend, groceries to take to brother in laws house
3 - groceries
4 - ice creams on the beach
5 - no buy #1
6 - spend
7 - went shopping with my mom and succumbed to a dress on sale at my favourite stores. And we went out for quite an expensive lunch.
8 - spend. But I only bought a loaf of home baked bread for our lunch So don't feel too bad.
9 - No Buy #2
10 - Spend, bought baby gifts for my niece who was born today!! My brother-in-law had to deliver her in his car as they never made it to hospital. They live on a farm 45 min away from the hospital. So exciting! Luckily baby and mom are doing very well.
11 - Spend. Drove almost 3 hours to visit with the new baby. So grateful we were still on holiday so were within driving distance so we could meet our niece.
12 - Spend, but only purchased bread and milk which I was quite proud of as we were on our road trip home. I made sandwiches with leftovers and we used the leftover drinks and snacks from the vacation. So still a victory for me
13 - Spend (groceries)
14 - No Buy #3
15 - Spend (but just some basic groceries)
16 - Don't even want to add up what I spent today :sad: gifts and supplies for the bachelor/bachelorette parties. I also bought some fabric to sew a Jedi robe for a fancy dress party for ds8 and his best friend. They turned out great. Was a fun project
17 - Spend (calling it now, we are going out to dinner tonight)
18 - Spend
19 - Spend (got takeout for lunch)
20 - Spend (just basic groceries so pretty good)
21 - No Buy #4

4/12 No Buy Days so far - doubt I will make my goal this month :sad2:
 
Sunday and Monday were both "No Buy" days! Today, we have the a/c guy coming out to service our unit.. so it will definitely be a spend day for me. I have to go grocery shopping and to the post office tomorrow, so it will also be a spend day.
 
April 1 Lunch
2 almond butter
3 easter basket
4 camper summer storage
5 NO BUY!!!
6 No buy
7 cold meds, I have had enough already
8 no buy
9 dinner out...Almost made it!
10 No buy
11 Groceries
12 Ice cream on our first over 60 degree day since before thanksgiving. Happily spent! Also magazine subscription from Discountmags.
13 No buy
14 $50+ at grocery (went in for apples and band aids) and lunch on thursday
15 No buy
16 Scholastic book order and school supplies
17 $41 bottle of Bourbon to celebrate our first anniversary in our house. HOOORAY!
18 NO BUY!
19 spend and spend and spend and I'm off right now to spend some more.
20 No buy #8
21 No buy #9

9/15
 


April

1-oil change for car, luckily no other repairs needed!
2-No Buy #1
3-Had to drive to work since I was going out of town and pay for parking downtown :(
4-No Buy #2
5-Gas and small groceries to tide me over for the week
6-Paid for my entry in our company's team in a 5K, they reimburse me for half of it, but it's still not regular spending
7-No Buy #3
8-No Buy #4
9-No Buy #5
10-Parking downtown since I had to go out of town again
11-No Buy #6
12-gas to get home plus groceries
13-No Buy #7
14-No Buy #8
15-No Buy #9
16-Work Happy Hour
17-No Buy #10 I brought my lunch, but my boss decided to treat our team so I have lunch for Monday and didn't spend my own money!!! :cool1:
18-No Buy #11
19-No Buy #12
20-No Buy #13 My boss bought us lunch again and is apparently planning to do it until a major project is done next week, so I might meet my goal!
21-No Buy #14

14/15 Days So Far
 
Catching up

4/1- $25.91 Dinner out and $100.19 Walmart (grocery)
4/2- $0
4/3- $0
4/4- $112.15 Target (easter)
4/5- $0
4/6- $4.89 chick fil a and $57.40 Heinens (groceries)
4/7- $0
4/8- $0
4/9- $23.21 Dinner out, $34 Target pharmacy, and $81.88 Target
4/10- $0
4/11- $6.98 Giant Eagle and $4.89 Chick fil a
4/12- $65.12 Kohls and $30.67 Drugmart
4/13- $0
4/14- $4.89 Chick fil a and $64.26 Walmart
4/15- $0
4/16- $0
4/17- $45.66 Target and $50.76 Heinens
4/18- $0
4/19- $0
4/20- $4.89 Chick fil a and $104.31 Target
4/21- $0
4/22- $0

13/13 No buy days
 
April

1-oil change for car, luckily no other repairs needed!
2-No Buy #1
3-Had to drive to work since I was going out of town and pay for parking downtown :(
4-No Buy #2
5-Gas and small groceries to tide me over for the week
6-Paid for my entry in our company's team in a 5K, they reimburse me for half of it, but it's still not regular spending
7-No Buy #3
8-No Buy #4
9-No Buy #5
10-Parking downtown since I had to go out of town again
11-No Buy #6
12-gas to get home plus groceries
13-No Buy #7
14-No Buy #8
15-No Buy #9
16-Work Happy Hour
17-No Buy #10 I brought my lunch, but my boss decided to treat our team so I have lunch for Monday and didn't spend my own money!!! :cool1:
18-No Buy #11
19-No Buy #12
20-No Buy #13 My boss bought us lunch again and is apparently planning to do it until a major project is done next week, so I might meet my goal!
21-No Buy #14
22- I had to buy my train ticket to go out of town next week, it was cheap, but still spending

14/15 Days So Far
 
Wow all of you are doing so well!

1 - spend, bought groceries for beach house and then bought an entire new ballet outfit for dd11 including shoes. Not strict strictly necessary but we do not have a ballet shop near our town.
2 - spend, groceries to take to brother in laws house
3 - groceries
4 - ice creams on the beach
5 - no buy #1
6 - spend
7 - went shopping with my mom and succumbed to a dress on sale at my favourite stores. And we went out for quite an expensive lunch.
8 - spend. But I only bought a loaf of home baked bread for our lunch So don't feel too bad.
9 - No Buy #2
10 - Spend, bought baby gifts for my niece who was born today!! My brother-in-law had to deliver her in his car as they never made it to hospital. They live on a farm 45 min away from the hospital. So exciting! Luckily baby and mom are doing very well.
11 - Spend. Drove almost 3 hours to visit with the new baby. So grateful we were still on holiday so were within driving distance so we could meet our niece.
12 - Spend, but only purchased bread and milk which I was quite proud of as we were on our road trip home. I made sandwiches with leftovers and we used the leftover drinks and snacks from the vacation. So still a victory for me
13 - Spend (groceries)
14 - No Buy #3
15 - Spend (but just some basic groceries)
16 - Don't even want to add up what I spent today :sad: gifts and supplies for the bachelor/bachelorette parties. I also bought some fabric to sew a Jedi robe for a fancy dress party for ds8 and his best friend. They turned out great. Was a fun project
17 - Spend (calling it now, we are going out to dinner tonight)
18 - Spend
19 - Spend (got takeout for lunch)
20 - Spend (just basic groceries so pretty good)
21 - No Buy #4
22 - No Buy #5
23 - Spend (groceries and new winter school uniform for ds8 - our school changed their uniform this year. More expense for us parents)

5/12 No Buy Days so far - doubt I will make my goal this month :sad2:
 
Wow everyone is going to make it but meeeeeeeeeee!
April 1 Lunch
2 almond butter
3 easter basket
4 camper summer storage
5 NO BUY!!!
6 No buy
7 cold meds, I have had enough already
8 no buy
9 dinner out...Almost made it!
10 No buy
11 Groceries
12 Ice cream on our first over 60 degree day since before thanksgiving. Happily spent! Also magazine subscription from Discountmags.
13 No buy
14 $50+ at grocery (went in for apples and band aids) and lunch on thursday
15 No buy
16 Scholastic book order and school supplies
17 $41 bottle of Bourbon to celebrate our first anniversary in our house. HOOORAY!
18 NO BUY!
19 spend and spend and spend and I'm off right now to spend some more.
20 No buy #8
21 No buy #9
22 spend
23 no buy
24 forgot lunch on the counter and had to buy spend day

10/15 Only 6 days left and 4 of them will be buy days...I'm still proud of all I've learned this month! Thanks to everyone who participates
 
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Not only is today a "no-buy" for me, but I managed to make (using the term loosely) three times my usual pay! How, you ask? Well....long story short DH cashed a check that had expired (he didn't realize it and the bank apparently didn't realize it either). Because he cashed it and it bounced, the full amount came out of our checking account 8 days before payday!! (DH gets paid monthly.) So, of course, we ended up overdrawn and had several checks that were presented for payment and the bank covered them but assessed us lots of $$ in overdraft fees.

Since the bank should not have cashed an expired check in the first place, I put it back on them and between two phone calls and a trip to my local branch, I was able to get them to refund me $225 in fees! Since I only take home about $69/day as a substitute teacher, that is like making at least 3 x my pay today!

In addition to that good news, I packed up a brown bag dinner for DS to eat between track practice and robotics meeting tonight.... so no $$ spent there! And I'm up to 17/20 no buy days.... so I should definitely make it to this month's goal.... and I even have a little of my $50 "fun money" left to spend ......................P
 
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pjlla, good for you!

April:
4/1: no buy #1
4/2: take out
4/3: haircuts, gas, warehouse club
4/4: last minute Easter groceries
4/5: no buy #2
4/6: groceries, field trip fees
4/7: no buy #3 (class for DS was canceled)
4/8: no buy #4
4/9: take out
4/10: no buy #5
4/11: errand day
4/12: birthday brunch for MIL
4/13: pretrip errands
4/14: vacation
4/15: vacation
4/16: vacation
4/17: vacation
4/18: vacation
4/19: home, but we needed groceries
4/20: the groceries we forgot yesterday…
4/21: no buy #6
4/22: school lunches (the account was empty -- oops!)
4/23: dinner out, school fundraiser, and… roll of drums… APs! :cheer2: I'm so excited about them! (It was really hard to click on that "purchase" button though, with such a large amount in the payment box. Next month will have to be an extra good no buy month.)

6/10 no buy days
1/0 non-consumables (it was a really cute Easter decoration!)
 
April

1-oil change for car, luckily no other repairs needed!
2-No Buy #1
3-Had to drive to work since I was going out of town and pay for parking downtown :(
4-No Buy #2
5-Gas and small groceries to tide me over for the week
6-Paid for my entry in our company's team in a 5K, they reimburse me for half of it, but it's still not regular spending
7-No Buy #3
8-No Buy #4
9-No Buy #5
10-Parking downtown since I had to go out of town again
11-No Buy #6
12-gas to get home plus groceries
13-No Buy #7
14-No Buy #8
15-No Buy #9
16-Work Happy Hour
17-No Buy #10 I brought my lunch, but my boss decided to treat our team so I have lunch for Monday and didn't spend my own money!!! :cool1:
18-No Buy #11
19-No Buy #12
20-No Buy #13 My boss bought us lunch again and is apparently planning to do it until a major project is done next week, so I might meet my goal!
21-No Buy #14
22- I had to buy my train ticket to go out of town next week, it was cheap, but still spending
23- I bought lunch because I guess the company decided not to get us lunch today (oh well), but it was only $3

14/15 Days So Far
 
4/1-No buy #1
4/2-No buy #2 (I needed some toiletries at CVS, but I had a 30% off coupon, and extra bucks, so it ended up not costing me anything...so I bought, but didn't spend!)
4/3-$15.95 on one of those Dunkin Donuts iced coffee cards...that price for 10 coffees is a really good deal, and I've made myself promise that once those 10 are gone, no more Dunkin stops for the month!
4/4-$40.15 on a dinner out with an old friend
4/5-No buy #3
4/6-$11.15 on lunch with another friend, took my dog to the vet for an injury
4/7-bought new running shoes, running is a huge part of my life and I'm very prone to injury from old/bad shoes so unfortunately this is a necessity
4/8-no buy #4
4/9-no buy #5
4/10-no buy #6
4/11-bought lunch at work, totally unnecessary...oops
4/12-bought some stuff at CVS I needed, but then walked out of there with a few extra purchases for sure
4/13-bought a coffee and a snack...unnecessary
4/14-another necessary trip to CVS where I bought more than I needed
4/15-no buy #7
4/16-no buy #8
4/17-no buy #9
4/18-no buy #10
4/19-oil change for my car and lunch with a friend
4/20-no buy #11
4/21-Some flea/tick stuff and a joint supplement for my dog-managed to just get him that and no new toys though! (He's very spoiled)
4/22-no buy #12
4/23-had to get some contact lens solution, but thankfully CVS sent me a 30% coupon so the damage was less than usual

12/15 no buys

I'm not sure if I'm going to make it....I have quite a few spends planned in the next few days (I owe a coworker lunch, I have a haircut appointment, I have a coffee date with another friend) so I'll be cutting it close for sure.

I've definitely done a better job at cutting down on individual spending, but so much of my money has gone to meeting up with friends! I wish I had more ideas for free things to do!
 
Done pretty well so far, this month I've spent $37 on things not in the budget (aka groceries (which have also been pretty low!) and cat and dog food!)

That's pretty darned close to a no buy! LOL
 
1 - spend, bought groceries for beach house and then bought an entire new ballet outfit for dd11 including shoes. Not strict strictly necessary but we do not have a ballet shop near our town.
2 - spend, groceries to take to brother in laws house
3 - groceries
4 - ice creams on the beach
5 - no buy #1
6 - spend
7 - went shopping with my mom and succumbed to a dress on sale at my favourite stores. And we went out for quite an expensive lunch.
8 - spend. But I only bought a loaf of home baked bread for our lunch So don't feel too bad.
9 - No Buy #2
10 - Spend, bought baby gifts for my niece who was born today!! My brother-in-law had to deliver her in his car as they never made it to hospital. They live on a farm 45 min away from the hospital. So exciting! Luckily baby and mom are doing very well.
11 - Spend. Drove almost 3 hours to visit with the new baby. So grateful we were still on holiday so were within driving distance so we could meet our niece.
12 - Spend, but only purchased bread and milk which I was quite proud of as we were on our road trip home. I made sandwiches with leftovers and we used the leftover drinks and snacks from the vacation. So still a victory for me
13 - Spend (groceries)
14 - No Buy #3
15 - Spend (but just some basic groceries)
16 - Don't even want to add up what I spent today :sad: gifts and supplies for the bachelor/bachelorette parties. I also bought some fabric to sew a Jedi robe for a fancy dress party for ds8 and his best friend. They turned out great. Was a fun project
17 - Spend (calling it now, we are going out to dinner tonight)
18 - Spend
19 - Spend (got takeout for lunch)
20 - Spend (just basic groceries so pretty good)
21 - No Buy #4
22 - No Buy #5
23 - Spend (groceries and new winter school uniform for ds8 - our school changed their uniform this year. More expense for us parents)
24 - Spend

5/12 No Buy Days so far - doubt I will make my goal this month :sad2:
 
4/1- $25.91 Dinner out and $100.19 Walmart (grocery)
4/2- $0
4/3- $0
4/4- $112.15 Target (easter)
4/5- $0
4/6- $4.89 chick fil a and $57.40 Heinens (groceries)
4/7- $0
4/8- $0
4/9- $23.21 Dinner out, $34 Target pharmacy, and $81.88 Target
4/10- $0
4/11- $6.98 Giant Eagle and $4.89 Chick fil a
4/12- $65.12 Kohls and $30.67 Drugmart
4/13- $0
4/14- $4.89 Chick fil a and $64.26 Walmart
4/15- $0
4/16- $0
4/17- $45.66 Target and $50.76 Heinens
4/18- $0
4/19- $0
4/20- $4.89 Chick fil a and $104.31 Target
4/21- $0
4/22- $0
4/23- $12.98 Pizza hut
4/24- $0

14/13 No buy days
 
April

1-oil change for car, luckily no other repairs needed!
2-No Buy #1
3-Had to drive to work since I was going out of town and pay for parking downtown :(
4-No Buy #2
5-Gas and small groceries to tide me over for the week
6-Paid for my entry in our company's team in a 5K, they reimburse me for half of it, but it's still not regular spending
7-No Buy #3
8-No Buy #4
9-No Buy #5
10-Parking downtown since I had to go out of town again
11-No Buy #6
12-gas to get home plus groceries
13-No Buy #7
14-No Buy #8
15-No Buy #9
16-Work Happy Hour
17-No Buy #10 I brought my lunch, but my boss decided to treat our team so I have lunch for Monday and didn't spend my own money!!! :cool1:
18-No Buy #11
19-No Buy #12
20-No Buy #13 My boss bought us lunch again and is apparently planning to do it until a major project is done next week, so I might meet my goal!
21-No Buy #14
22- I had to buy my train ticket to go out of town next week, it was cheap, but still spending
23- I bought lunch because I guess the company decided not to get us lunch today (oh well), but it was only $3
24- Bought lunch and dinner to reward myself for making it through the first of 2 terrible weeks at work
25-No Buy #15

15/15 Days So Far! I made it!!!
 
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