Fall in love with a February No Buy!

[stayhomemom77]

If you are new to the No Buy thread, we have one monthly to help us keep the spending down. You decide you own parameters (which budget categories you will track, how much you will track, how many no buy days to have, etc) and then just report here daily to track your progress.

There's no judgement and hopefully the reporting keeps us on track and on budget.

Good luck everyone!!

 

[pigletto]

Thanks! I'm in. This really helps keep me on track for our March trip!

I'll have to take a good look at what is coming up this month and what the budget looks like, but I am going to shoot for most days being no buy days. I try to do most of our errands and groceries on weekends and stay out of the stores the rest of the week. This month I am shooting for 21 no buy days out of 28.

 

[Zim]

I have been anxiously awaiting this for February! I am going to try for the 21 of 28 as well. The only spend I'm not counting is bills and gas. I'm hoping this will make me much more aware of my frequent eating out and grocery stops for "just a couple things". Thanks for setting it up!

 

[melissalee]

I'm in! I need to be more aware of where my money is going!!

 

[disneyscrapbook3]

I am all in for 24/28 days of no buy.

 

[EpiStitch]

I'm in for 18 days. I usually do 20, but with February being short, and a 5 day trip, I know there are more days I will have to spend money compared to January.

Good luck everyone!

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 18 No Buy Days

Jan
1-No Buy #1
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1/18 Days So Far

 

[Sereina]

I think this will help me a lot! My goal is 24/28 days.

 

[stayhomemom77]

February
Goal 20 days

FEB
1- no buy #1
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1/20 no buy days

 

[pigletto]

February
Goal 21 days

FEB
1- no buy #1
2- no buy #2 (Too much snow to get out of my driveway anyway!)
3
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2/21 no buy days

 

[hmack]

When you go to the grocery store and the clerk says, "you're here every day". It's probably time to make a change.
I am going to shoot for 12 no buy days.

0/12

 

[Deffenm]

I am in again for this month. I missed Jan. by 1 day so hopefully I can make my goal for Feb. My goal is 20 days for Feb.

Feb 1- no buy
2 - no buy
3 - no buy
4 -
5 -
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -
11 -
12 -
13 -
14 -
15 -
16 -
17 -
18 -
19 -
20 -
21 -
22 -
23 -
24 -
25 -
26 -
27 -
28 -

 

[Narnia_girl]

I'm shooting for 21 NO BUY days. Not sure how to handle it if my husband buys something though?
I do most of the spending, he's a practical guy, but we are in the middle of a remodel project so he is buying stuff regularly.

1--no buy
2--no buy
3--no buy
4--sick child requested Lipton chicken noodle soup--so I went to grocery store and spent $65.

 

[EpiStitch]

I was not happy to have to trek through 20 inches of snow to go to work today when most of the people I know got snow days, but at least I didn't "waste" money today because of it.

Goal: 18 No Buy Days

Jan
1-No Buy #1
2-No Buy #2
3-
4-
5-
6-
7-
8-
9-
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2/18 Days So Far

 

[stayhomemom77]

February
Goal 20 days

FEB
1- no buy #1
2-spend on groceries
3-no buy #2
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3/20 no buy days

 

[tzeitel]

Ahh February, shortest month...I think I can tackle that! January was bad (ok I was bad in January) so I am not going to even look at ON or Gap this month. I don't really count grocery shopping since we do not regularly buy stuff we do not need but everything else counts. Not putting a set amount of days, just working on keeping it a low number!

 

[pigletto]

February
Goal 21 days

FEB
1- no buy #1
2- no buy #2 (Too much snow to get out of my driveway anyway!)
3- no buy #3
4- no buy #4 (calling it now)
5
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4/21 no buy days

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 18 No Buy Days

Jan
1-No Buy #1
2-No Buy #2
3-bought lunch today breaking my 34 days of no eating out, it had to end sometime
4-
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2/18 Days So Far

 

[hmack]

YES! I finally got one. so far I'm learning, that i'm a bit of a poor planner.

1/12 no-spend days.

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 18 No Buy Days

Jan
1-No Buy #1
2-No Buy #2
3-bought lunch today breaking my 34 days of no eating out, it had to end sometime
4-gifts for people I'm visiting later in the month
5-No Buy #3
6-
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3/18 Days So Far, not looking great