Not the greatest month! It was tough with a vacation and a birthday. Here's to next month!
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:
4/28: ice cream!
4/29:
4/30: Little League concession stand (we were at the field for 6 hours!), Walmart, BJ's, gas, iParty, Dick's Sporting Goods, Panera Bread for dinner, groceries. Ouch.
no buy days: 7/8
longest no buy streak: 3 days
meals out: 4/5 (not counting our trip!)
days since our last meal out: 0
longest no meals out streak: 10
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:
4/28: ice cream!
4/29:
4/30: Little League concession stand (we were at the field for 6 hours!), Walmart, BJ's, gas, iParty, Dick's Sporting Goods, Panera Bread for dinner, groceries. Ouch.
no buy days: 7/8
longest no buy streak: 3 days
meals out: 4/5 (not counting our trip!)
days since our last meal out: 0
longest no meals out streak: 10
) 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. 
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