August $0 Buy

Are you going to tell us your DD's name so all of us going to visit can say hello? :goodvibes

Her name is Julie, and she has lovely long reddish brown hair. She will be working here and there between August 16th and 25th. I know she is working the night of the 20th for sure. She will be back during the Christmas holidays if anyone is going then.

She works Big Thunder Mountain mostly, but she also works Country Bears and she knows how to drive the rafts, but she doesn't work there much.

She is a hospitality and tourism major with a 3.8 average out of 4.0. She works very hard and I am exceedingly proud of her.

Thanks for asking! :)
 
Goal: 15 $0 Days...4 so far!

Groceries: $78.75...$71.25 LEFT
Goal is $150 or less...

Gas: $124...$126 LEFT
Goal is $250 or less...

Eating Out: $67.97...$32.03 LEFT (NO MORE EATING OUT IN AUGUST!!)
Goal is $100 or less (for August and September)

Misc.: $34.00 Vet, $5.00 Zoo, $8.36 JoAnn's, $12.00 DH Haircut, $4.15 Postage = $55.21
Goal is $125...$61.49 LEFT

$0 Days:

8/1, 8/3, 8/5, 8/9
 
Too funny! I'm glad you knew what I was talking about. She really wants the golden ticket, too. Kids are adorable!

I hope she gets it! :thumbsup2

Believe it or not we went back to CEC today. I left so mad though. A machine took my DD8's token and didn't work. She tried again and it didn't again. She went to tell a worker while I waited by the machine. She comes back and told me the lady said don't worry about it. I am like :confused3 is she coming to fix it? She didn't think so. Well, I waited for a few minutes and no one ws coming and kids were coming over to play it so I was stopping them so they didn't waste a token. So DD11 comes by and I tell her to get someone, she goes to a guy and he says he'll be right over. So I wait, and wait. Well as It happened right before I went to wait someone had asked me the time so I had looked at my phone. I waited 10 minutes (stupid I know but I didn't want to leave it and have bunched of kids wasted their money.) So finally DD11 comes by again I say wait here I will get someone. So I go and tell a guy. He says he'd be right over. I told him he was the 3rd person we asked and have been waiting 10 minutes, he said he's be right there. 10 more minutes!!!!! no one. So now I am about to pop! I don't care about the 2 tokens we lost, but it isn't right that they make us wait and wait and you know they are going to have tons of kids putting money in the machine. So I see a manager and send DD over there (not a manager I have ever seen before either.) She is playing Guitar Hero! I am sure she is "testing it" but how about fix a machine you know is broken first? Anyway, does she come right over? Nope. At 30 minutes I am beat red and ready to explode. Like I told the guy, it isn't like this is Pizza Hut and the games are an afterthought, this is CEC, yo ugo for the games they should be working or marked out of order. Anyway, that comes later. So I tell the kids we are done, get me some napkins. So I write on napkins "out of order" and put it on the machine and start to walk away when I see this guy in a manger shirt (I have never seen him before.) I tell him all of this and he says, sorry. Taht is it. Not y ouare right, not let me take care of that. So I ask him when Shawna will be in, she has been the manager cine it opened close to 10 years ago. He says she doesn't work there anymore. I said, yeah, I can tell. I ws so upset because the whole time I was waiting I was thinking I will call Shawna tomorrow and without her there adn this guy as the manager, my time was worhtless cause he obviously doesn't care. Uggg, so we left. I told him I was a very good regualr but I ws so upset I thought maybe by money would go to the other CEC or to Adventure Landing a block away. He said, OK then. UUGGGGGG.
So leaving the kid at the door asks if we had fun. I said no, not really this time. I asked him the 2 managers names and he told me but told me that the guy doesn't work there he's in from another location. No wonder he didn't care. Ug, I'll go back but it's going to be a while. That just irritated me. How hard would it have been to go put a sticker over the machine so no kids used it? that never would have flown when Shawna worked there. :headache:

OK, sorry, had to get it out. Thanks!
 
Her name is Julie, and she has lovely long reddish brown hair. She will be working here and there between August 16th and 25th. I know she is working the night of the 20th for sure. She will be back during the Christmas holidays if anyone is going then.

She works Big Thunder Mountain mostly, but she also works Country Bears and she knows how to drive the rafts, but she doesn't work there much.

She is a hospitality and tourism major with a 3.8 average out of 4.0. She works very hard and I am exceedingly proud of her.

Thanks for asking! :)

Sounds like yo ushould be proud! :thumbsup2 I'm afraid we won't see her though, we aren't going till November, the week of Thanksgiving. What a great oppertunity for her though, I bet she is having a blast!
 

Went to the grocery today to pick up milk, bread, and some fresh fruit and veggies.

August Budget-

Groceries- $200/ $118.66 left
Household- $50
Gas- $50
Eating out/entertainment- $50/ $33.42 left
Misc- $50/ $40.12 left

total- $400/ $292.20 left

10 No buy Days

8/1- Out of town
8/2- Out of town
8/3- Out of town
8/4- $0
8/5- Dinner out $16.58 and $57.72 for groceries
8/6- $0
8/7- $9.88 Walgreen's
8/8- $0
8/9- $0
8/10- $23.62 at Save-a-lot

4/10 No Buy Days
 
Well so much for my "no spend day" :lmao:

Now in my defense some of it was business expense. But here is the thing... I tend to just spend on the business so I am keeping track of that. This was probably the worst month I could have started this as there are so many things requiring spending right now!

Here goes: Started off the day by visiting with the ad rep for the armed services guide which runs in Fort Meade which is near my studio. We are expecting an influx of many hundreds of families into the area due to a base in VA closing. So I placed an ad in thier guide which goes out to all new families: $269.55

Then I had a working lunch with two staff members so I bought pizza (again) bad for my bottom line and my waist line. I need to plan better for when I have the girls over. Anyway: $33

Then I took the boys flyering again and we hit tons of houses! : $72

Water for the boys: $6 (Approx)

After flyering I decided we would just McD it for dinner: $12

Then I called and ordered my MNSSHP tix today: $257

Gave son money to go to six flags with youth group Wed: $47

WHEW!

Tomorrow I am taking my DS11 back to school shopping, for a haircut and to the movies.

I am aiming to have Thursday and Friday as no spend days.


GOALS:

10 No Spend Days
2/10

Track all spending all 31 days
10 /31

August 1st - $5 Tip to Peapod Driver
August 2nd - $878 Car Registration renwal thanks to my ex.
August 3rd - $17.50 Fast Food / $86.28 Laundry / $4.33 Misc
August 4th - $0
August 5th - $1.06 McD's Iced Tea / $24 Pizza during staff meeting
August 6th - $4drinks/ $8.85 Lunch Kids / $111.50 Drs / $611 Barres / $17 Game Fly
August 7th - $4.64 Breakfast, $45.46 Gas, $6 Lunch, $56.25 Groceries
August 8th - $0
August 9th - $11.32 Breakfast, 37.89 Gas, $22 Massage Tip, $6.99 Dinner Me, $28 Diiner boys, 63.99 Clothing, $2.50 Groceries, $10 Laundry, 21.47 Dance Camp snacks, $96 payment for flyering, $344.94 TV
August 10th - $269.55 Ad for studio, Pizza for lunch $33, Waters $6 , Flyering $72, Dinner $12, MNSSHP $257, 6 flags $47,


Totals
No Buy Days - 2/10
Misc Spending - $479.02
Clothing - $63.99
Vehicle - $878
Gas - $83.85
Eating Out/On The Run - $165.36
Entertainment - $304
Grocery/Household - $69.28
Medical - $111.50 ($50 My fault)
Business Expenses - $1070.02
 
Running Total: Spent $182.69
$0 Days:4

Groceries ($217)- $51.04
Eating Out ($217)- $100.58
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($217) $31.07

Decided to start a weekly budget, maybe this way I won't get too discouraged!

Week 2:
$50 Groceries: $48.96 left
$50 Eating Out: $0 left
$50 Misc: $68.93 left

Week 3:
$50 Groceries: $50 left
$50 Eating Out: $49.42 left
$50 Misc: $50 left


1- $26 (Eating Out- Teddy Fabz), $2 (Eating Out- Cookie), $24 (Eating Out- KFC) <---- I hate summer!, $2 (Misc.-Dollar Tree, Sunday Papers)
2- $0
3- $1.69 (Groceries-Meijer), $7.60 (Eating Out-McDonald's), $7.50 (Misc.-Library Fines), $32.23 (Groceries-Walgreens), $.33 (Groceries-Jewel)
4- $.77 (Groceries-Jewel-Osco), $.33 (Groceries-Target), $12.12 (Groceries-Meijer) $4.40 (Eating Out-McDonald's), $6.63 (Shopping-Meijer), $2.68 (Shopping-Target)
5- $0
6- $6 (Misc.-Tube Rental), $3.57 (Groceries-Dominick's), $13 (Eating Out-McDonald's)
7- $14.68 (Eating Out-Five Guys), $4.26 (Shopping-Dollar Tree)
WEEK 2 BEGIN:
8- $6.90 (Eating Out- Burger King)
9- $0
10- $0



Budget: $651....28%
Month: 10/31: 32%


My savings from coupons and sales: $144.60
 
I don't know my exact totals. I bought lunch for $5.45, gas for about $31 and walmart for groceries and vitamins for about $31. I also used up the last of my WM return GC on shorts for the kiddo for next summer and things like vacuum cleaner bags.

8/10 - $67.45 ish (full tank of gas, groceries, lunch & misc household WM stuff)
8/9 - 7.73 (snacks and gas)
8/8 - $6.23 (breakfast & ice cream)
8/7 - $39 (veggies, cokes and tutu skirts)
8/6 - zero
8/5 - 10.73 (lunch & breakfast)
8/4 - zero
8/3 - 33.81 (snacks, breakfast & groceries)
8/2 - zero
8/1 - $29.12 (Mom's birthday dinner)
 
Goals: 15 $0 Buy days
Max spending $500 for gas, food (groceries & eating out), and miscellaneous.

01 - $0! 1
02 - $0! 2
03 - $61.90 Breaux Mart, Amazon, Dollar Tree
04 - $10.86 Winn-Dixie
05 - $20.12 Chateau Orleans, Cane's
06 - $22.69 Snoball, gas
07 - $0! 3
08 - $0! 4
09 - $0! 5
10 - $101.33 lunch, McDonald's, TJMaxx, Winn-Dixie

Totals:
$0 Buy: 5/15...............33%
Spending: $216.90/500...43%
Days in Month: 10/31......32%

Averages:
$500/31 days= $16.13
$216.90/10 days= $21.69

My Winn-Dixie receipt shows I now have 25c off my next tank of gas. I hope it works next time; 15c expires at the end of August!
 
My Winn-Dixie receipt shows I now have 25c off my next tank of gas. I hope it works next time; 15c expires at the end of August!

Mine said 20 cents and it only gave me 15 cents off. But I needed a full tank of 12 gallons, so every little bit helps!
 
Today was a huge spend day. I am heading back to teaching full time and was in need of several things!:scared1:


8/1 - Sunday Paper $2, Walgreens $3.79
8/2 - Post office 1.77, Thrift store $2, Teacher store $23.32
8/3 - 0:cheer2:
8/4 - 0:cheer2:
8/5 - belated birthday dinner with hubby- $50
8/6 - Groceries & School Supplies - $96.58, Ice Cream from McDonalds $.69
8/7 - 0:cheer2:
8/8 - paper $2, $11.35 Kroger
8/9 - lunch out $8
8/10 - lunch, teacher store, dollar store, Rite Aid, and Walgreens -$85.32

Goal 15 no buys - 3/15
Groceries $126.22/$440
 
August 1-$0
August 2-$0
August 3-$0
August 4-$25(medication-child was ill)
August 5-$0 (hair cut-money budgeted)
August 6-$0

August 1-$0
August 2-$0
August 3-$0
August 4-$25(medication-child was ill)
August 5-$0 (hair cut-money budgeted)
August 6-$0
August 7-$0
August 8-$20
August 9-$0
August 10-$0
August 11-
 
08-01 $0!:thumbsup2
08-02 $0!:thumbsup2
08-03 $0!:thumbsup2
08-04 $6 & change on dinner.
08-05 $0!:thumbsup2
08-06 $0!:thumbsup2
08-07 $0!:thumbsup2
08-08 $0!:thumbsup2
08-09 McDonalds $9 & change, $20 & change for gas.
08-10 $0!:thumbsup2
08-11 $0!:thumbsup2
*this weekend will be a "spend" weekend. Friday is bill pay day (I don't count the bill-paying) but I have a few extras (Christmas presents) that I'm buying (these will count against my "no spend days".)
I have a tight grocery budget this week, and I'm low on a few items like dishwasher soap and laundry soap. I've been buying cheaper brands of laundry soap, but I'm not 100% happy with them. I cringe at the price of Tide though. What do you all use? I have a small stackable washer & dryer, and I wash mostly in cold. I prefer liquid, and it has to smell wonderful!



Goal: 12
Met: 9 !:banana:
Days to go: 3

BONUS GOAL: 5 additional days.
Bonus goal met : 0
Bonus goal days to go: 5
 
I usually get Purex Clear or something like that. A bottle is $1.99 for 32 loads at Wegmans. Sometimes they have Arm and Hammer for that price, too. I won't pay the price of Tide, no matter how good it is.
 
I usually get Purex Clear or something like that. A bottle is $1.99 for 32 loads at Wegmans. Sometimes they have Arm and Hammer for that price, too. I won't pay the price of Tide, no matter how good it is.


I will be on the lookout for both of those brands, thanks QVCshopper!
ITA about the price of Tide! Its just crazy! I know that there is a brand loyalty there, but my loyalty is to my bank account!!
Unless Tide washes, dries, folds & puts away, :laundy: I'm not spending that much on it!! :laughing:
 
I was hoping not to spend too much at the fair last night but the Tupperware lady was there! She had something I've been wanting...and I figure just buying that one thing is cheaper than hosting a whole party.

Aug. 1 - $0
Aug. 2 - $0
Aug. 3 - $0 ($530 for new shutters but using tax return)
Aug. 4 - $121.65 (massage-justified pain relief)
Aug. 5 - $0
Aug. 6 - $200 (cash for Hershey and weekly cash allowance)
Aug. 7 - $76.85 (Hershey Park sunset passes for 3)
Aug. 8 - $389 (hotel for 2 nights, tickets, some meals)
Aug. 9 - $0
Aug. 10 - $74 (state fair)
Aug. 11 - $168 (YMCA swim lessons and gymnastics fee, nail appointment)
 
8/1: $90.62 (groceries, 1 textbook, and renewing B&N membership)
8/2: $0
8/3: $0
8/4: $0
8/5: $48.21 (parking, lunch, dinner)
8/6: $37.69 (post office, lunch)
8/7: My birthday! approx. $60 for b-day dinner
8/8: $21.17 (food for b-day party)
8/9: $16.65 (drink from snack shop and DH's prescription)
8/10: $0!

Well, we did it! We didn't spend yesterday, and it made me feel so good! Turned out, we already had some money/points left over on our Dave & Buster's cards that we could spend in the arcade...add my free $10 in game play to that, and we had a good time without spending any money :cool1:

4/10 days so far, 6 to go!
 
Was up really early and we went to breakfast and then went up to the mall because we had a coupon for free underwear from VS and I stopped in the Disney Store (always my downfall)

August Budget-

Groceries- $200/ $118.66 left
Household- $50
Gas- $50
Eating out/entertainment- $50/ $18.77 left
Misc- $50/ $27.18 left

total- $400/ $264.61 left

10 No buy Days

8/1- Out of town
8/2- Out of town
8/3- Out of town
8/4- $0
8/5- Dinner out $16.58 and $57.72 for groceries
8/6- $0
8/7- $9.88 Walgreen's
8/8- $0
8/9- $0
8/10- $23.62 at Save-a-lot
8/11- $14.65 at The Pancake House and $12.94 at the Disney Store

4/10 No Buy Days
 
Ok, I have NO IDEA what I am doing this month!! Not having my ATM card is really messing me up. I did check my accounts online last night and I think I might be ahead of the game so despite being a mess, I am doing ok. Had 2 bills pop up that were unexpected but I still think I can get those piad without hitting my savings. So I am pretty excited.

Does anyone know if you can transfer a credit card from one type to another? What i mean is I have a Chase credit card but never use it! I want a Disney Visa (which is also Chase) so can I just tranfer it from teh standard rewards card to the Disney card? I know I can apply for a new card and cancel the other one but then I will get another inquiry against on my credit report and want to avoid that.

Hope everyone has a great, cheap day;)
 
0 day! Haven't left the house, don't plan to except to work out.

Running Total: Spent 137
$900 budget...$763 left
$0 Days: 6
Goal is 10 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 66

Groceries budget- $250-10-26-24-6-11= 173 left

August 1: 0
August 2: 22 (10 groceries, 12 misc)
August 3: 37 (26 groceries, 11 toiletries & cleaning supplies)
August 4: 0
August 5: 0 (spent a little money but it came from Dh's budget, so no spend for me)
August 6: 0
August 7: 24 ( groceries)
August 8: 13
August 9: 0
August 10: 41 ( Walgreens- things for DD, pop )
August 11: 0
 















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