April 2011: Springing into No Buys

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $654.51
$0 Days:11/13

Groceries ($240-$8/day)- $115.34
Eating Out ($210-$7/day)- $200.20
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($780-$26/day) $74.78
Gas $250- 4/2 $54.17 (3.89/gal), 4/5 $28.02 (3.89/gal), 4/15 $65 (4.02/gal) saw gas prices are up to $4.25 at some stations, so filled up with cash for $4.02, 4/21 $43 (4.19/gal), 4/23 $74 ($4.19/gal) now both cars are full and won't need gas until next month= $264.19

1- $0
2- My son's 4th bday. $8.06 (Games-Misc.), $16.10 (Target-Misc.), $6.38 (Dollar Tree-Misc.), $11 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out)
3- $0
4- $0
5- $0
6- $16.81 (Walgreens-Groceries), $9.80 (McDonald's Eating Out)
7- $19.09 (Burger King- Eating Out-Our son really wanted to go here for some reason...maybe one too many commercials on TV during American Idol last night. I remember why we don't go here...yuck!), $7.89 (Meijer-Groceries...actually left my receipt there so I have no idea how much I saved off of sales, just know I saved $8 with coupons)
8- $2.88 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out), $6.40 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $7.91 (Doggery-Eating Out)
9- $10.44 (Panera-Eating Out), $35 (Maggiano's-Eating Out)
10- $2.88 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out), $8.29 (Au Bon Pain-Eating Out), $4.83 (McDonald's-Eating Out)
11- $21.03 (Portillo's-Eating Out), $20 (Video Game-Misc.), $4.61 (Target-Groceries)
12- $0
13- $16.05 (Walgreens-Groceries), $9.81 (Wendy's-Eating Out) $7.16 (Meijer-Groceries)
14- $0
15- $0
16- $7 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $4.19 (Dollar Tree- Misc.), $14.71 (Joe Caputo-Groceries), $5.99 (Trader Joe's-Groceries)
17- $19 (Parking-Misc.), $19 (Gene and Jude's-Eating Out), $6.77 (Walgreens-Groceries)
18- $0
19- $11.94 (Dominick's-Groceries), $7.96 (Jewel-Groceries), $2.51 (Meijer-Groceries)
20- $0
21- $0
22- $0
23- $3.23 (Wal-Mart-Groceries), $14.33 (Hot Dogz-Eating Out), $1.50 (Concessions-Eating Out), $9.01 (McDonald's-Eating Out),
24- $9.62 (Walgreens-Groceries), but got $12 in Register Rewards and a $2.50 rebate to send in.


Budget: $1480....44%
Month: 24/30: 80%
No Buy: 11/13: 85%

My savings from coupons and sales: $870.37

Next Month: 6 month insurance premium ($300)....First month tuition for preschool ($203)....Broadway in Chicago Tickets ($318)

August: $300 Hotel Room for Cedar Point, October: ~$250 Rental Car

 

[wlake]

Congratulations Ronnmel! I hope your wedding goes smoothly!

QVCShopper, glad everyone's better.

Superme80, good work this month!

Debbie, of course she wants to visit her sister in Egypt! My sister spent a year abroad in college, and memories from my visit helped us when we weren't getting along for a few years. (Granted, I'm the older sister so I had a job so I paid my own way!)

4/1: take out; $20 basket raffle for my school
4/2: $15 AC Moore (party gift), $30 gas, $12 Staples, $20 pharmacy
4/3: $66 groceries, I'm-not-admitting-how-much on a new bike for DS8 who had outgrown his badly.
4/4:
4/5:
4/6: DH went shopping while he was out of town -- I wouldn't ordinarily count it, but he bought me something I wanted!
4/7: $14 groceries (forgot I was the t-ball snack mom for this Sat., and once I'm in there, I seem to need at least one more thing)
4/8: $3 groceries (that I could have gotten last night had I thought of it!) and $21 basket raffle tickets
4/9: $40 Target, $50-something groceries, $51 Lands' End (clothes for me)
4/10: $80 Trader Joe's (lots of snacks for our trip!), $13 bagels, $16 Walmart
4/11: Finally, another no buy -- I was beginning to worry!
4/12: $20 dinner out
4/13:
4/14: $5 Walmart, $80 Target, $80 Kohls
4/15: lunch out (a huge treat!)
4/16 to 4/20: our DC trip
4/21: $50 groceries, $20 Dairy Queen cake for DS6!
4/22: meds and copay for DS6 (at least it's the day AFTER his birthday!), new glasses for DS8, and misc.
4/23: Target, grocery store, and Walmart, all things we could have done yesterday had we been better organized
4/24:


no buy days: 5/8
longest no buy streak: 3 days
meals out: 2/5 (not counting our trip!)
days since our last meal out: 4
longest no meals out streak: 10

 

[ronnmel]

Thanks wlake!

No Buy Days : 12/12
Gas : 81$ (max 120$???)
Groceries : 163$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 131$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 273$ (max 200$)

04/01 : 0$
04/02 : 7$ (snack)
04/03 : 20$ (lunch + purse)
04/04 : 0$
04/05 : 0$
04/06 : 0$
04/07 : 15$ (gift bag + dinner)
04/08 : 0$
04/09 : 0$
04/10 : 0$
04/11 : 67$ (books + gas)
04/12 : 20$ (groceries)
04/13 : 2$ (breakfast club)
04/14 : 0$
04/15 : 103$ (baby shower gift, swimwear for me, dinner and snack)
04/16 : 0$
04/17 : 141$ (gas + medication + groceries + swimsuit for DD)
04/18 : 0$
04/19 : 0$
04/20 : 116$ (groceries + pharmacy + baby shower gift (yet again) + books for my classroom)
04/21 : 0$
04/22 : 0$
04/23 : 139$ (lunch + bath floor mat + cat food & litter)
04/24 : 18$ (dinner)

 

[charming23]

Had to run to the grocery for a few items we were missing for tonight's meal.

April Budget (3/30-4/29)

Grocery/Household- $300/$58.90 Left
Car/Gas- $50/$17.30 Left
Eating out- $50/$26.80 left
Misc/entertainment- $100/$44.04 left

Total- $500.00/$133.82 left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

Week One
3/30- $0
3/31- $54.53 Grocery, $26.62 Gas, $3.32 misc, and $13.75 eating out
4/1- $15 Haircut and $13.05 Walgreens
4/2- $0
4/3- $10.21 Grocery and $6.59 Misc
4/4- $0
4/5- $0

Week Two
4/6- $18.44 Grocery and $9.45 eating out
4/7- $0
4/8- $2.99 Pepperidge Farm and $5.45 Walgreens
4/9- $0
4/10- $14.95 Grocery and $9.70 Misc
4/11- $0
4/12- $0

Week Three
4/13- $8.60 Lane Bryant, $30.72 Marc's and $52.66 Giant Eagle
4/14- $0
4/15- $4.49 Giant Eagle
4/16- $19.50 Gas and $20 Walmart
4/17- $0
4/18- $0
4/19- $0

Week Four
4/20- $0
4/21- $12.78 Aldi's
4/22- $6.81 Grocery
4/23- $0
4/24- $0
4/25- $7.07 Giant Eagle
4/26
4/27
4/28
4/29

15/15 No Buy Days

Store and Coupon Savings-$111.16

 

[Debbie]

A good start to the week. Fingers crossed that I can keep DH from running out and buying something!

My budget:
I will count all OTC purchases, but not the regularly budgeted and paid for bills like Church, heating, water, taxes etc.
I will not count DH's spending on his snacks, since he does that every day, and there is no way for me to keep track, anyway.
This month I have a couple of birthday gifts, and of course Easter candy. (not sure if I'm doing baskets or not....maybe just cash for each of 5 kids ) My biggest goal is that I NOT spend as much as I did last month....that should be attainable, since last month was atrocious! Here's hoping for 12 no buy days.

April 1: $4 drug co-pay, grad pics for DD $172, gas $23
April 2: groceries $53 DDs phone needed replacing, and, since she was off to buy her shoes for her prom, I bought the phone...happy belated birthday....$101
April 3: $0
April 4: $0
April 5: Tuesday is DH's grocery day: $116
April 6: more groceries $26, gas $50
April 7: $0
April 8: $0
April 9: $30 groceries and it was ME, not DH this time
April 10: tip on brunch $5, gas to TO $15, shared lottery ticket with DSisters $35
April 11: gas $36
April 12: groceries $23
April 13: gas $30
April 14: $0
April 15: lottery ticket $5, contact lens (yes, ONE) $145
April 16: market groceries $13, Dollarama $50 (gift for DNephew, stuff for school, envelopes for home, and just...fun ), Bulk Barn (groceries and Easter candy)$37, Chapters gift + books for school $18, Costco-went in for milk for us, and chocolate bars for school (I sell stuff and the proceeds go to cancer), but the bill-NOT including the school chocolate-was $96 What was I thinking??? Oops, just read the bill......$33 of that was Easter CANDY....again....What was I thinking? Updating the $43 groceries DH bought after Church
April 17: Oops! I remembered that I bought DQ, so I have to add $5 to the misc category
April 18: gas $32, oil change $24 Cinnamon buns for the school review breakfast $11 groceries $10
April 19: groceries $20
April 20: $0
April 21: Bought tea at Tim's $2, gas $42, and the groceries were $93, but I had $90 in points to use, so.....groceries $3
April 22: Nothing open, I refuse to buy online tomorrow, so I can call $0
April 23: Picked up some groceries at our local grocery store. I bought 3 desserts, 2 blocks of cheese, meat for the freezer and other things $52. At the market I bought buns for tomorrow's meal $8 and flowers, just because $10. Gas $23 Should be done now until Monday!
April 24:

$0
April 25: $0

Gas: $252
Groceries/Household: $570
Drug co-pays/medicine/lens: $149
Misc including gifts: $395
Easter candy: $55

No Buy days: 9/12

 

[Virgderon]

Another 0 day... now I am over my goal.

Running Total: Spent $565
$800 budget... $235 left
$0 Days: 9
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 104

Groceries budget- $250-19-7- 69-7-11-25-42-5 -39= 26 left

April 1: 19 ( groceries)
April 2: 0
April 3: 26 ( pop, razor, cleaning supplies, soup)
April 4: 0
April 5: 43 (14 Walgreens, 23 bowling banquet, 6 dinner at bowling)
April 6: 0
April 7: 69 ( Publix groceries)
April 8: 0
April 9: 41 ( 23 lunch, 11 Publix, 7 pop)
April 10 : 0
April 11: 0
April 12 : 12 ( 5 dinner at bowling, 7 at Walgreens)
April 13: 0
April 14 : 14 ( misc including People magazine. Couldn't help it. )
April 15: 45 ( groceries and chinese food )
April 16: 61 ( 42 groceries, 7 books at the flea market, 12 misc)
April 17: 67 ( 46 old navy, 20 Busch gardens lunch, 1 newspaper)
April 18: 47 ( 25 Target food, 12 food at ball game, 10 parking)
April 19 : 17 ( pot luck lunch treats)
April 20: 0
April 21: 35 (13 food at ball game, 22 at Walgreens)
April 22: 39 ( groceries)
April 23: 13 ( 8 bug spray, 5 parking at arena football game)
April 24: 17 (Walgreens)
April 25: 0

 

[wlake]

Virgderon, good job!

4/1: take out; $20 basket raffle for my school
4/2: $15 AC Moore (party gift), $30 gas, $12 Staples, $20 pharmacy
4/3: $66 groceries, I'm-not-admitting-how-much on a new bike for DS8 who had outgrown his badly.
4/4:
4/5:
4/6: DH went shopping while he was out of town -- I wouldn't ordinarily count it, but he bought me something I wanted!
4/7: $14 groceries (forgot I was the t-ball snack mom for this Sat., and once I'm in there, I seem to need at least one more thing)
4/8: $3 groceries (that I could have gotten last night had I thought of it!) and $21 basket raffle tickets
4/9: $40 Target, $50-something groceries, $51 Lands' End (clothes for me)
4/10: $80 Trader Joe's (lots of snacks for our trip!), $13 bagels, $16 Walmart
4/11: Finally, another no buy -- I was beginning to worry!
4/12: $20 dinner out
4/13:
4/14: $5 Walmart, $80 Target, $80 Kohls
4/15: lunch out (a huge treat!)
4/16 to 4/20: our DC trip
4/21: $50 groceries, $20 Dairy Queen cake for DS6!
4/22: meds and copay for DS6 (at least it's the day AFTER his birthday!), new glasses for DS8, and misc.
4/23: Target, grocery store, and Walmart, all things we could have done yesterday had we been better organized
4/24:
4/25: book at Amazon, school lunches for boys


no buy days: 5/8
longest no buy streak: 3 days
meals out: 2/5 (not counting our trip!)
days since our last meal out: 5
longest no meals out streak: 10

 

[ronnmel]

Good job Virgderon!

No Buy Days : 12/12
Gas : 81$ (max 120$???)
Groceries : 163$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 131$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 278$ (max 200$)

04/01 : 0$
04/02 : 7$ (snack)
04/03 : 20$ (lunch + purse)
04/04 : 0$
04/05 : 0$
04/06 : 0$
04/07 : 15$ (gift bag + dinner)
04/08 : 0$
04/09 : 0$
04/10 : 0$
04/11 : 67$ (books + gas)
04/12 : 20$ (groceries)
04/13 : 2$ (breakfast club)
04/14 : 0$
04/15 : 103$ (baby shower gift, swimwear for me, dinner and snack)
04/16 : 0$
04/17 : 141$ (gas + medication + groceries + swimsuit for DD)
04/18 : 0$
04/19 : 0$
04/20 : 116$ (groceries + pharmacy + baby shower gift (yet again) + books for my classroom)
04/21 : 0$
04/22 : 0$
04/23 : 139$ (lunch + bath floor mat + cat food & litter)
04/24 : 18$ (dinner)
04/25 : 5$ (tanning salon)

 

[QVCshopper]

10/10 no-buys

4/1-$23 Wegmans, $2 McD
4/2-$19 Wegmans, $5 Charity, $5 Amazon, $64 Lowes, $14 Target
4/3-$19 Chinese food
4/4-$0
4/5-$18 Mall food (+ Lego build), $21 Wegmans, $13.50 ACME
4/6-$0
4/7-$0
4/8-$24 Wegmans
4/9-$13.50 ACME, $21 Wegmans
4/10-$5 Tag Sale, $5 Subway, $3.50 Sonic
4/11-$8.80 Stamps, $84.80 Pepsi/Hershey Park deal, $23 Lands End
4/12-$0
4/13-$0
4/14-$70 Wegmans (food/Easter event), $9 PetSmart, $2 Doctor, $5 BK, $5 DD
4/15-$0
4/16-$11 Wegmans, $25 PetSmart, $4 Book Store, $5 Five Below, $11 Gertrude Hawk, $5 Subway, $4 Auntie Anns, $53 Disney Store
4/17-$60 Food
4/18-$0
4/19-$0
4/20-$0
4/21-4/23-spend
4/24-$0
4/25-$15 Target; $4 Sonic, $2 Wawa

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $654.51
$0 Days:12/13

Groceries ($240-$8/day)- $115.34
Eating Out ($210-$7/day)- $200.20
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($780-$26/day) $74.78
Gas $250- 4/2 $54.17 (3.89/gal), 4/5 $28.02 (3.89/gal), 4/15 $65 (4.02/gal) saw gas prices are up to $4.25 at some stations, so filled up with cash for $4.02, 4/21 $43 (4.19/gal), 4/23 $74 ($4.19/gal) now both cars are full and won't need gas until next month= $264.19

1- $0
2- My son's 4th bday. $8.06 (Games-Misc.), $16.10 (Target-Misc.), $6.38 (Dollar Tree-Misc.), $11 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out)
3- $0
4- $0
5- $0
6- $16.81 (Walgreens-Groceries), $9.80 (McDonald's Eating Out)
7- $19.09 (Burger King- Eating Out-Our son really wanted to go here for some reason...maybe one too many commercials on TV during American Idol last night. I remember why we don't go here...yuck!), $7.89 (Meijer-Groceries...actually left my receipt there so I have no idea how much I saved off of sales, just know I saved $8 with coupons)
8- $2.88 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out), $6.40 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $7.91 (Doggery-Eating Out)
9- $10.44 (Panera-Eating Out), $35 (Maggiano's-Eating Out)
10- $2.88 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out), $8.29 (Au Bon Pain-Eating Out), $4.83 (McDonald's-Eating Out)
11- $21.03 (Portillo's-Eating Out), $20 (Video Game-Misc.), $4.61 (Target-Groceries)
12- $0
13- $16.05 (Walgreens-Groceries), $9.81 (Wendy's-Eating Out) $7.16 (Meijer-Groceries)
14- $0
15- $0
16- $7 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $4.19 (Dollar Tree- Misc.), $14.71 (Joe Caputo-Groceries), $5.99 (Trader Joe's-Groceries)
17- $19 (Parking-Misc.), $19 (Gene and Jude's-Eating Out), $6.77 (Walgreens-Groceries)
18- $0
19- $11.94 (Dominick's-Groceries), $7.96 (Jewel-Groceries), $2.51 (Meijer-Groceries)
20- $0
21- $0
22- $0
23- $3.23 (Wal-Mart-Groceries), $14.33 (Hot Dogz-Eating Out), $1.50 (Concessions-Eating Out), $9.01 (McDonald's-Eating Out),
24- $9.62 (Walgreens-Groceries), but got $12 in Register Rewards and a $2.50 rebate to send in.
25- $0


Budget: $1480....44%
Month: 25/30: 83%
No Buy: 12/13: 92%

My savings from coupons and sales: $870.37

Next Month: 6 month insurance premium ($300)....First month tuition for preschool ($203)....Broadway in Chicago Tickets ($318)

August: $300 Hotel Room for Cedar Point, October: ~$250 Rental Car

 

[charming23]

The weather is nice out so I have the windows open and am just enjoying the weather.

April Budget (3/30-4/29)

Grocery/Household- $300/$58.90 Left
Car/Gas- $50/$17.30 Left
Eating out- $50/$26.80 left
Misc/entertainment- $100/$44.04 left

Total- $500.00/$133.82 left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

Week One
3/30- $0
3/31- $54.53 Grocery, $26.62 Gas, $3.32 misc, and $13.75 eating out
4/1- $15 Haircut and $13.05 Walgreens
4/2- $0
4/3- $10.21 Grocery and $6.59 Misc
4/4- $0
4/5- $0

Week Two
4/6- $18.44 Grocery and $9.45 eating out
4/7- $0
4/8- $2.99 Pepperidge Farm and $5.45 Walgreens
4/9- $0
4/10- $14.95 Grocery and $9.70 Misc
4/11- $0
4/12- $0

Week Three
4/13- $8.60 Lane Bryant, $30.72 Marc's and $52.66 Giant Eagle
4/14- $0
4/15- $4.49 Giant Eagle
4/16- $19.50 Gas and $20 Walmart
4/17- $0
4/18- $0
4/19- $0

Week Four
4/20- $0
4/21- $12.78 Aldi's
4/22- $6.81 Grocery
4/23- $0
4/24- $0
4/25- $7.07 Giant Eagle
4/26- $0
4/27
4/28
4/29

16/15 No Buy Days

Store and Coupon Savings-$111.16

 

[Virgderon]

Thanks guys. My o days goal was pretty easy tho. I always make it easy, because I am more worried about staying under budget than how many 0 days.

Running Total: Spent $589
$800 budget... $211 left
$0 Days: 9
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 104

Groceries budget- $250-19-7- 69-7-11-25-42-5 -39= 26 left

April 1: 19 ( groceries)
April 2: 0
April 3: 26 ( pop, razor, cleaning supplies, soup)
April 4: 0
April 5: 43 (14 Walgreens, 23 bowling banquet, 6 dinner at bowling)
April 6: 0
April 7: 69 ( Publix groceries)
April 8: 0
April 9: 41 ( 23 lunch, 11 Publix, 7 pop)
April 10 : 0
April 11: 0
April 12 : 12 ( 5 dinner at bowling, 7 at Walgreens)
April 13: 0
April 14 : 14 ( misc including People magazine. Couldn't help it. )
April 15: 45 ( groceries and chinese food )
April 16: 61 ( 42 groceries, 7 books at the flea market, 12 misc)
April 17: 67 ( 46 old navy, 20 Busch gardens lunch, 1 newspaper)
April 18: 47 ( 25 Target food, 12 food at ball game, 10 parking)
April 19 : 17 ( pot luck lunch treats)
April 20: 0
April 21: 35 (13 food at ball game, 22 at Walgreens)
April 22: 39 ( groceries)
April 23: 13 ( 8 bug spray, 5 parking at arena football game)
April 24: 17 (Walgreens)
April 25: 0
April 26 : 24 (post office)

 

[bigmama67]

Hey all, long time no post, we had a pretty good visit with my Mom all things considered (spent WAY too much on eating out but we had some GOOD meals!) I picked up the last of our groceries for the month, pretty much, today and we will be on target for that at least. Still waiting for my tutoring paycheck from March which was supposedly mailed April 15th...yeah, right!

I will add up my no-buy days and hope to (HAVE TO!) do better in May. (Why does that sound familiar?)

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 13/12
Gas : 81$ (max 120$???)
Groceries : 163$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 131$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 278$ (max 200$)

04/01 : 0$
04/02 : 7$ (snack)
04/03 : 20$ (lunch + purse)
04/04 : 0$
04/05 : 0$
04/06 : 0$
04/07 : 15$ (gift bag + dinner)
04/08 : 0$
04/09 : 0$
04/10 : 0$
04/11 : 67$ (books + gas)
04/12 : 20$ (groceries)
04/13 : 2$ (breakfast club)
04/14 : 0$
04/15 : 103$ (baby shower gift, swimwear for me, dinner and snack)
04/16 : 0$
04/17 : 141$ (gas + medication + groceries + swimsuit for DD)
04/18 : 0$
04/19 : 0$
04/20 : 116$ (groceries + pharmacy + baby shower gift (yet again) + books for my classroom)
04/21 : 0$
04/22 : 0$
04/23 : 139$ (lunch + bath floor mat + cat food & litter)
04/24 : 18$ (dinner)
04/25 : 5$ (tanning salon)
04/26 : 0$

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $1270.43
$0 Days:12/13

Groceries ($240-$8/day)- $133.19
Eating Out ($210-$7/day)- $206.35
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($780-$26/day) $666.70
Gas $250- 4/2 $54.17 (3.89/gal), 4/5 $28.02 (3.89/gal), 4/15 $65 (4.02/gal) saw gas prices are up to $4.25 at some stations, so filled up with cash for $4.02, 4/21 $43 (4.19/gal), 4/23 $74 ($4.19/gal) now both cars are full and won't need gas until next month= $264.19

1- $0
2- My son's 4th bday. $8.06 (Games-Misc.), $16.10 (Target-Misc.), $6.38 (Dollar Tree-Misc.), $11 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out)
3- $0
4- $0
5- $0
6- $16.81 (Walgreens-Groceries), $9.80 (McDonald's Eating Out)
7- $19.09 (Burger King- Eating Out-Our son really wanted to go here for some reason...maybe one too many commercials on TV during American Idol last night. I remember why we don't go here...yuck!), $7.89 (Meijer-Groceries...actually left my receipt there so I have no idea how much I saved off of sales, just know I saved $8 with coupons)
8- $2.88 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out), $6.40 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $7.91 (Doggery-Eating Out)
9- $10.44 (Panera-Eating Out), $35 (Maggiano's-Eating Out)
10- $2.88 (Dairy Queen-Eating Out), $8.29 (Au Bon Pain-Eating Out), $4.83 (McDonald's-Eating Out)
11- $21.03 (Portillo's-Eating Out), $20 (Video Game-Misc.), $4.61 (Target-Groceries)
12- $0
13- $16.05 (Walgreens-Groceries), $9.81 (Wendy's-Eating Out) $7.16 (Meijer-Groceries)
14- $0
15- $0
16- $7 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $4.19 (Dollar Tree- Misc.), $14.71 (Joe Caputo-Groceries), $5.99 (Trader Joe's-Groceries)
17- $19 (Parking-Misc.), $19 (Gene and Jude's-Eating Out), $6.77 (Walgreens-Groceries)
18- $0
19- $11.94 (Dominick's-Groceries), $7.96 (Jewel-Groceries), $2.51 (Meijer-Groceries)
20- $0
21- $0
22- $0
23- $3.23 (Wal-Mart-Groceries), $14.33 (Hot Dogz-Eating Out), $1.50 (Concessions-Eating Out), $9.01 (McDonald's-Eating Out),
24- $9.62 (Walgreens-Groceries), but got $12 in Register Rewards and a $2.50 rebate to send in.
25- $0
26- $586.12 (Car fixed-Needed new calipers, rotors and brake pads), $6.15 (Wendy's-Eating Out), $5.80 (Library Fines-Misc.), $14.82 (Joe Caputo-Groceries), $3.03 (Jewel-Groceries), Meijer-Groceries)


Budget: $1480....86%
Month: 26/30: 87%
No Buy: 12/13: 92%

My savings from coupons and sales: $911.16

Next Month: 6 month insurance premium ($300)....First month tuition for preschool ($203)....Broadway in Chicago Tickets ($318)

August: $300 Hotel Room for Cedar Point, October: ~$250 Rental Car

 

[Debbie]

Updating the Tuesday shop. Had to pick up some angel cake, strawberries, whipped cream for DH's birthday today. And, of course, Tuesday is his shopping day (when he picks up DD from choir )

My budget:
I will count all OTC purchases, but not the regularly budgeted and paid for bills like Church, heating, water, taxes etc.
I will not count DH's spending on his snacks, since he does that every day, and there is no way for me to keep track, anyway.
This month I have a couple of birthday gifts, and of course Easter candy. (not sure if I'm doing baskets or not....maybe just cash for each of 5 kids ) My biggest goal is that I NOT spend as much as I did last month....that should be attainable, since last month was atrocious! Here's hoping for 12 no buy days.

April 1: $4 drug co-pay, grad pics for DD $172, gas $23
April 2: groceries $53 DDs phone needed replacing, and, since she was off to buy her shoes for her prom, I bought the phone...happy belated birthday....$101
April 3: $0
April 4: $0
April 5: Tuesday is DH's grocery day: $116
April 6: more groceries $26, gas $50
April 7: $0
April 8: $0
April 9: $30 groceries and it was ME, not DH this time
April 10: tip on brunch $5, gas to TO $15, shared lottery ticket with DSisters $35
April 11: gas $36
April 12: groceries $23
April 13: gas $30
April 14: $0
April 15: lottery ticket $5, contact lens (yes, ONE) $145
April 16: market groceries $13, Dollarama $50 (gift for DNephew, stuff for school, envelopes for home, and just...fun ), Bulk Barn (groceries and Easter candy)$37, Chapters gift + books for school $18, Costco-went in for milk for us, and chocolate bars for school (I sell stuff and the proceeds go to cancer), but the bill-NOT including the school chocolate-was $96 What was I thinking??? Oops, just read the bill......$33 of that was Easter CANDY....again....What was I thinking? Updating the $43 groceries DH bought after Church
April 17: Oops! I remembered that I bought DQ, so I have to add $5 to the misc category
April 18: gas $32, oil change $24 Cinnamon buns for the school review breakfast $11 groceries $10
April 19: groceries $20
April 20: $0
April 21: Bought tea at Tim's $2, gas $42, and the groceries were $93, but I had $90 in points to use, so.....groceries $3
April 22: Nothing open, I refuse to buy online tomorrow, so I can call $0
April 23: Picked up some groceries at our local grocery store. I bought 3 desserts, 2 blocks of cheese, meat for the freezer and other things $52. At the market I bought buns for tomorrow's meal $8 and flowers, just because $10. Gas $23 Should be done now until Monday!
April 24:

$0
April 25: $0
April 26: groceries $15 + $12

Gas: $252
Groceries/Household: $597
Drug co-pays/medicine/lens: $149
Misc including gifts: $395
Easter candy: $55

No Buy days: 9/12[/QUOTE]

 

[charming23]

Staying in today. We are expecting rain on and off, so I am working in the house.

April Budget (3/30-4/29)

Grocery/Household- $300/$58.90 Left
Car/Gas- $50/$17.30 Left
Eating out- $50/$26.80 left
Misc/entertainment- $100/$44.04 left

Total- $500.00/$133.82 left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

Week One
3/30- $0
3/31- $54.53 Grocery, $26.62 Gas, $3.32 misc, and $13.75 eating out
4/1- $15 Haircut and $13.05 Walgreens
4/2- $0
4/3- $10.21 Grocery and $6.59 Misc
4/4- $0
4/5- $0

Week Two
4/6- $18.44 Grocery and $9.45 eating out
4/7- $0
4/8- $2.99 Pepperidge Farm and $5.45 Walgreens
4/9- $0
4/10- $14.95 Grocery and $9.70 Misc
4/11- $0
4/12- $0

Week Three
4/13- $8.60 Lane Bryant, $30.72 Marc's and $52.66 Giant Eagle
4/14- $0
4/15- $4.49 Giant Eagle
4/16- $19.50 Gas and $20 Walmart
4/17- $0
4/18- $0
4/19- $0

Week Four
4/20- $0
4/21- $12.78 Aldi's
4/22- $6.81 Grocery
4/23- $0
4/24- $0
4/25- $7.07 Giant Eagle
4/26- $0
4/27- $0
4/28
4/29

17/15 No Buy Days

Store and Coupon Savings-$111.16

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 13/12
Gas : 81$ (max 120$???)
Groceries : 183$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 131$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 289$ (max 200$)

04/01 : 0$
04/02 : 7$ (snack)
04/03 : 20$ (lunch + purse)
04/04 : 0$
04/05 : 0$
04/06 : 0$
04/07 : 15$ (gift bag + dinner)
04/08 : 0$
04/09 : 0$
04/10 : 0$
04/11 : 67$ (books + gas)
04/12 : 20$ (groceries)
04/13 : 2$ (breakfast club)
04/14 : 0$
04/15 : 103$ (baby shower gift, swimwear for me, dinner and snack)
04/16 : 0$
04/17 : 141$ (gas + medication + groceries + swimsuit for DD)
04/18 : 0$
04/19 : 0$
04/20 : 116$ (groceries + pharmacy + baby shower gift (yet again) + books for my classroom)
04/21 : 0$
04/22 : 0$
04/23 : 139$ (lunch + bath floor mat + cat food & litter)
04/24 : 18$ (dinner)
04/25 : 5$ (tanning salon)
04/26 : 0$
04/27 : 31$ (groceries, tanning, car oil)

 

[Virgderon]

Hi Bigmamaa! Nice to see you! Debbie, you make me want flowers. I have not purchased flowers in a long time. Maybe I will compromise and buy some for my planter so they last longer.

Running Total: Spent $602
$800 budget... $198 left
$0 Days: 9
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 104

Groceries budget- $250-19-7- 69-7-11-25-42-5 -39-13= 13 left

April 1: 19 ( groceries)
April 2: 0
April 3: 26 ( pop, razor, cleaning supplies, soup)
April 4: 0
April 5: 43 (14 Walgreens, 23 bowling banquet, 6 dinner at bowling)
April 6: 0
April 7: 69 ( Publix groceries)
April 8: 0
April 9: 41 ( 23 lunch, 11 Publix, 7 pop)
April 10 : 0
April 11: 0
April 12 : 12 ( 5 dinner at bowling, 7 at Walgreens)
April 13: 0
April 14 : 14 ( misc including People magazine. Couldn't help it. )
April 15: 45 ( groceries and chinese food )
April 16: 61 ( 42 groceries, 7 books at the flea market, 12 misc)
April 17: 67 ( 46 old navy, 20 Busch gardens lunch, 1 newspaper)
April 18: 47 ( 25 Target food, 12 food at ball game, 10 parking)
April 19 : 17 ( pot luck lunch treats)
April 20: 0
April 21: 35 (13 food at ball game, 22 at Walgreens)
April 22: 39 ( groceries)
April 23: 13 ( 8 bug spray, 5 parking at arena football game)
April 24: 17 (Walgreens)
April 25: 0
April 26 : 24 (post office)
April 27: 13 ( all junk. All of it. Crackerjacks, little donuts , fritos , pop. Oh ya, I bought raisins, but it was still a disgusting shopping trip really. I did enjoy the Crackerjacks while watching Survivor, but shame on me.)

 

[wlake]

4/1: take out; $20 basket raffle for my school
4/2: $15 AC Moore (party gift), $30 gas, $12 Staples, $20 pharmacy
4/3: $66 groceries, I'm-not-admitting-how-much on a new bike for DS8 who had outgrown his badly.
4/4:
4/5:
4/6: DH went shopping while he was out of town -- I wouldn't ordinarily count it, but he bought me something I wanted!
4/7: $14 groceries (forgot I was the t-ball snack mom for this Sat., and once I'm in there, I seem to need at least one more thing)
4/8: $3 groceries (that I could have gotten last night had I thought of it!) and $21 basket raffle tickets
4/9: $40 Target, $50-something groceries, $51 Lands' End (clothes for me)
4/10: $80 Trader Joe's (lots of snacks for our trip!), $13 bagels, $16 Walmart
4/11: Finally, another no buy -- I was beginning to worry!
4/12: $20 dinner out
4/13:
4/14: $5 Walmart, $80 Target, $80 Kohls
4/15: lunch out (a huge treat!)
4/16 to 4/20: our DC trip
4/21: $50 groceries, $20 Dairy Queen cake for DS6!
4/22: meds and copay for DS6 (at least it's the day AFTER his birthday!), new glasses for DS8, and misc.
4/23: Target, grocery store, and Walmart, all things we could have done yesterday had we been better organized
4/24:
4/25: book at Amazon, school lunches for boys
4/26: dinner out, shorts for me
4/27:


no buy days: 6/8
longest no buy streak: 3 days
meals out: 3/5 (not counting our trip!)
days since our last meal out: 1
longest no meals out streak: 10