Hey there "No Buy" friends! I took December off and intended to be back in January, but things got crazy around here.... but I'm back for February with a vengeance! I was thinking about this thread between jobs today when I was craving a coffee LIKE MAD and wasn't going to buy it so that I could count today as a "no-buy" day.... and then discovered I had 6 punches on my coffee punch card! WOOHOO for a freebie!
Goal for February won't be terribly lofty as we have school vacation at the end of the month plus it is robotics build season and sometimes (well, often) pizza happens! Goal of 15 No Buy days for me (I don't count gas, groceries, or regular bills.)
1 Work then home... tried to fix the leaky plumbing under the sink myself so that I wouldn't have to call a plumber, but discovered that the pipe was actually broken. Looks like a new garbage disposal in our future....
No-Buy #1
2 Work then work then home. Free coffee to go with the snack I brought along to eat between jobs! DH was able to buy the parts and fix the broken pipe! WOOOHOO! No-Buy #2
3 Work and home. No money spent. No-Buy #3
4 Work and home. No money spent. No-Buy #4
5 Work, home, and robotics. No money spent. No-Buy #5.
6 Home doing housework. Men are at robotics but I packed lunches and DS will use his "food allowance" for today's pizza. No money spent. No-Buy #6.
7 Robotics and home. And normally it would have been a No-Buy, but DH and DS stopped for a pizza on the way to robotics.... which frustrates me because there was already pizza planned for dinner AND we were coming from home, so they totally could have eaten before we left OR packed a meal (which is what I did).... oh well. $12 spent.
8 Work and then home. Storm coming in so everything after school is cancelled so the quinoa stew planned for dinner will actually get eaten tonight! No-Buy #7
9 All-day voting day fundraiser for robotics (I was there 6:15 am - 3:30pm and again for clean up at 7:15-7:40). Plus I worked my evening job. I did end up putting $6 in the donation bucket to "prime the pump" and decided to leave it. Plus I donated more than half of what was sold
. Definitely NOT a No-Buy day for me.
10 Work and home. No-Buy #8
11 work and home. No-Buy #9
12 Work and home. DS out for pizza with girlfriend's family but they paid. DH and I ate veggie burgers, summer squash, and pickles for dinner at home. No-Buy #10.
13 Picked up DD at school and brought her home for a short visit. Too cold to even CONTEMPLATE walking to the dining hall so I "splurged" on egg and cheese sandwiches and coffee from Dunkins for dinner (Yup, I'm a big spender...ha, ha!).
14 Happy Valentine's Day! I printed some cute Disney valentine's here at home and will be giving my kiddos CASH instead of presents.... but the money comes from the "gifts" envelope, so I will call today a no buy. No-Buy #11.
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UPDATED as of 2/14.
