April No -buy Spring into savings!

[wishesuponastar]

B and Miss B good job on finding those iron ons!

 

[stayhomemom77]

Well, I'm a week late...but I made it!

It's been rather spendy so far this month and I can't for the life of me remember everything so I'll just go forward from yesterday because I went nowhere and spent nothing.

As usual, I am just going to be tracking the WAM (walking around money) cash purchases and anything that is purchased outside of the regular budget.

Goal is 15 No Buy Days

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7-$0 (Got a sick kiddie, so we're homeward bound today)
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2/15 No Buy Days

 

[sarahk0204]

Well, I 'm certainly not on track for 10 no buy days right now.

April 1 - $0
April 2 - groceries
April 3 - groceries and prescriptions and dinner
April 4 - Easter gifts
April 5 - breakfast and Sam's Club and groceries and boy's shoes
April 6 - drug store (including Easter candy) and groceries
April 7 - printer ink and light bulbs and dinner

I've got meals planned and the ingredients to make them on hand, so perhaps I can fit in a few more no buy days this week.

 

[charming23]

2 no buy days in a row. Hoping I can get another one tomorrow.


4/1- $44.36 Dinner out, $156.48 Walmart, & $30.90 Trader Joes
4/2- $0
4/3 - $7.80 chick fil a and $129.43 Target
4/4 - $0
4/5 - $84.01 Giant Eagle and $29.20 Get go gas
4/6 - $0
4/7 - $0

 

[sarahk0204]

2 no buy days in a row. Hoping I can get another one tomorrow.

 

[tikitorie]

just redeemed my store gas points and got $115.00 in gas for free. that will help!

 

[charming23]

Got another no buy day. Might be able to get one tomorrow as well.

4/1- $44.36 Dinner out, $156.48 Walmart, & $30.90 Trader Joes
4/2- $0
4/3 - $7.80 chick fil a and $129.43 Target
4/4 - $0
4/5 - $84.01 Giant Eagle and $29.20 Get go gas
4/6 - $0
4/7 - $0
4/8 - $0

 

[jkquinn]

Wow. Neat discussion here
Anyone have a good budget template they can share?

I'm saving for vacation and need to get expenses in control

 

[QVCshopper]

Wow! I am so behind! I am training for a 10 mile race and it takes a lot of my time.

4/1 Spend
4/2 Spend
4/3 No-buy #1
4/4 Spend
4/5 Spend
4/6 Spend
4/7 No-buy #2
4/8 No-buy #3

3/12

 

[QVCshopper]

just redeemed my store gas points and got $115.00 in gas for free. that will help!

Giant? I do that, and filling up for free or nearly free is awesome!

 

[tikitorie]

Giant? I do that, and filling up for free or nearly free is awesome!

Well, it's Martins here..but yes same company

 

[sarahk0204]

April 1 - $0
April 2 - groceries
April 3 - groceries and prescriptions and dinner
April 4 - Easter gifts
April 5 - breakfast and Sam's Club and groceries and boy's shoes
April 6 - drug store (including Easter candy) and groceries
April 7 - printer ink and light bulbs and dinner
April 8 - $0

 

[pjlla]

April 3 (edited due to change of plans): No spending, as DH didn't make it to the market for me.

April 4: No spending, worked and didn't go anywhere after work.

April 5: Major grocery shopping and Target. Bribed DS to come along to keep me company by offering a breakfast sandwich from Dunkins.... spent $5.39 including a milk. Only spent $11 at Target on things other than grocery items. Bought some knobs for my kitchen on clearance. They didn't have enough, but I'm hoping to find more at another Target.

Gassed up the car for (hopefully) the week.

Movie "date" with DH and DS. Three adult tix (thought that matinee pricing was through 5pm, but it ended at 4pm and we saw the 4:10 movie). Men had popcorn and sodas... I brought my own fat-free popcorn from home and a bottle of seltzer from my Soda Stream. We went straight home after and I made homemade pizza for the men, rather than take-out. Spent $31.50 on movie tix and ??? on snacks.

April 6: Nothing spent.

April 7: Nothing spent.

April 8: Nothing spent/worked doubles but skipped buying a coffee between jobs.

April 9: Nothing spent. DH did have to travel to Maine for work, but those expenses (gas and lunch) will be reimbursed by the company.

Onward for April!....................P

 

[charming23]

Broke my no buy streak. Stopped for lunch on my way into work and then got a few groceries.

4/1- $44.36 Dinner out, $156.48 Walmart, & $30.90 Trader Joes
4/2- $0
4/3 - $7.80 chick fil a and $129.43 Target
4/4 - $0
4/5 - $84.01 Giant Eagle and $29.20 Get go gas
4/6 - $0
4/7 - $0
4/8 - $0
4/9 - $9.99 Wendy's and $22.36 Heinens

 

[QVCshopper]

Calling tomorrow early.


4/1 Spend
4/2 Spend
4/3 No-buy #1
4/4 Spend
4/5 Spend
4/6 Spend
4/7 No-buy #2
4/8 No-buy #3
4/9 No-buy #4
4/10 No-buy #5
4/11 Spend

5/12

 

[wishesuponastar]

My goal again for this month is for food shopping to be under $500 for our family of 4 (2 teen girls). I will try for 10 no buy days and I don't track bills or gas. I do track DH spending too.

1- $61 groceries
2 - no-buy #1
3- spend $7 DH lunch, Kohls
4- $74 Costco, 2 coffees
5 - $6 DH lunch, $7 Costco muffins
6 - Piano book and 2 coffees plus lunch out with daughters
7 - No buy #2
8 - No buy #3
9 - $43 groceries, $12 farmer's market, $5 mailing for art
10 - DH lunch and pizza out for dinner with inlaws
11 - $7.50 home ec project for DD12; $115 Costco; $58 Walmart (Also got a $20 refund at Costco for phones that I bought)

Grocery total as of 4/11 - $312 (Goal is $500 or under)

 

[charming23]

Thursday I spent a ton of money at Target. We are redoing our two bathrooms and they had some great sales on storage items, and accessories. They are now finished.

4/1- $44.36 Dinner out, $156.48 Walmart, & $30.90 Trader Joes
4/2- $0
4/3 - $7.80 chick fil a and $129.43 Target
4/4 - $0
4/5 - $84.01 Giant Eagle and $29.20 Get go gas
4/6 - $0
4/7 - $0
4/8 - $0
4/9 - $9.99 Wendy's and $22.36 Heinens
4/10 - $4.89 chick fil a, and $212.02 Target
4/11 - $0

 

[pjlla]

April 10: DH stopped at the market for a few necessities: $16.09

April 11: Men had tix to a comedy show, but I fed them before they went. I ate leftover after work. No spending (on my part any how ).

April 12: Probably no spending, since I don't plan to go anywhere today.

.....................P

 

[sarahk0204]

April 1 - $0
April 2 - groceries
April 3 - groceries and prescriptions and dinner
April 4 - Easter gifts
April 5 - breakfast and Sam's Club and groceries and boy's shoes
April 6 - drug store (including Easter candy) and groceries
April 7 - printer ink and light bulbs and dinner
April 8 - $0
April 9 - groceries
April 10 - $0
April 11 - gas
April 12 - $0

 

[charming23]

Yesterday I spent the day at my house cleaning out and getting ready for the guys to install drywall (we had a pipe burst this winter and are finally fixing everything since the weather is better). I did not spend any money as the neighbors had me over for lunch rather than me going out.

Today I met a friend for lunch and worked on laundry.


4/1- $44.36 Dinner out, $156.48 Walmart, & $30.90 Trader Joes
4/2- $0
4/3 - $7.80 chick fil a and $129.43 Target
4/4 - $0
4/5 - $84.01 Giant Eagle and $29.20 Get go gas
4/6 - $0
4/7 - $0
4/8 - $0
4/9 - $9.99 Wendy's and $22.36 Heinens
4/10 - $4.89 chick fil a, and $212.02 Target
4/11 - $0
4/12 - $0
4/13 - $12.49 lunch, $16.29 drugmart, & $24.45 old navy online