April No -buy Spring into savings!

[QVCshopper]

Made my goal... tomorrow will be a no buy day. If I stopped counting groceries, I'd be much higher in no-buys, around 20 at least. That's all I bought today and yesterday--the toddler just can't tolerate more than one store a day.

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
4/12 Spend
4/13 Spend
4/14 No-buy #6
4/15 Spend
4/16 Spend
4/17 Spend
4/18 Spend
4/19 Spend
4/20 No-buy #7
4/21 Spend
4/22 No-buy #8
4/23 Spend
4/24 No-buy #9
4/25 No-buy #10
4/26 Spend
4/27 No-buy #11
4/28 Spend
4/29 Spend
4/30 No-buy #12

No-buys 12/12

 

[pjlla]

Last day of the month!!

April 30: Working, no shopping, no money spent!

I will go back later and add up how many "no buy" days I had (I'm not counting gas or groceries). I think I did pretty well this month, but I did stop and add up the grocery money spent and it was for this month! So much more than I thought! ...............P

 

[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)
12 - One coffee, Spend dinner out and DH & DD going to movie but I don't think they are buying snacks.
13- Kohls, DH lunch, 2 coffees
14- $3 groceries
15- DH lunch
16 - $21 groceries
17 - $19.23 Costco
18 - DH lunch
19 - 2 coffees, Peeps 99 cents, dinner out, amusement ride tickets, fudge, kohls - leggings for DD's
20- 1 coffee, FIL birthday gift
21- Chinese dinner
22- 1 coffee, $2 bagels, $1 rolls
23- DH lunch
24- $13 groceries, lunch out for family, walmart $7
25 - $3.40 taco bell for DH,
26 - 2 coffees and 2 donuts (got to cut back on buying coffees, it's DH fault lol) Walmart & Staples
27- $9 farmers market, $12 groceries, $48 Costco food only $5 towel, $25 lunch out
28- $12 groceries, $7 DH & my lunch
29 - $2 DH breakfast

30 - No buy #4


Made my grocery challenge to be under $500 for our family of 4 - Total for April is $453.21. That did not include soaps/paper towels, just food. But next month I am going to include all the extras because I want to compare my total to a few months ago. This month we went over on eating out so we'll try to do better about that in May. No buy only 4 days, my goal was 10.

 

[wishesuponastar]

Last day of the month!!

April 30: Working, no shopping, no money spent!

I will go back later and add up how many "no buy" days I had (I'm not counting gas or groceries). I think I did pretty well this month, but I did stop and add up the grocery money spent and it was for this month! So much more than I thought! ...............P

I had crazy grocery spending a few months ago up to $650 so I can sympathize with you. But what I have been doing the last few months is making a budget of $500 for our family of 4. What is really helping me to stay within my budget is not buying a lot of extra items just because they are on sale. Instead of buying 10 cans of tuna, I'll only buy 4. Plus I stopped buying Lean pockets, that right there saves me about $30 to $40 a month.

QVCshopper, congrats on meeting your Nobuy challenge!!

 

[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
April 13 - prescription
April 14 - $0
April 15 - milk and Easter candy
April 16 - $0
April 17 - dinner and Easter gifts and Easter clothes
April 18 - breakfast and museum admission
April 19 - groceries and gas
April 20 - $0
April 21 - gas and dinner
April 22 - $0
April 23 - groceries
April 24 - groceries (Yeah, I know, but the store is very close to where the kids take piano lessons)
April 25 - gas
April 26 - Scout activity with DS. (Yes, I spent money, but it was so much fun! Totally worth it.)
April 27 - household stuff
April 28 - dinner
April 29 - dinner (McTeacher night for the kids' school)
April 30 - haircut

7/10 No Buy Days
Overspent in groceries, but saved some in dining, so not too bad overall.
Vacation gas fund: $51
Vacation hotel/ticket fund: $57
Vacation dining fund: $25

So far we can drive to central Illinois, stay overnight at Motel 6, and eat 1 meal at McDonalds.

 

[wishesuponastar]

 

[pjlla]

Since I wasn't counting groceries or gas, I made it to 23 no-buy days for April! See what happens when you stay busy and away from the stores??? That being said, my grocery spending was a bit over the top! I'm really going to have to get a handle on it for May! But so much of the spending was on produce and not meat, my freezer is actually UNDER stocked on meat and protein. But spring is here, the local chickens are laying well again, so at least I'll be able to buy my local free-range eggs regularly again!

Anyone start a May no-buy challenge yet?...................P