MickeyMomOfThree
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2008
- Messages
- 5,044
September 1- $0 
I always do well on the months I start with a $0 day, here's hoping!
September 2-$0 I had a late-day frustration break down with the kids (trying to get the house ready for company) and really needed a break. Turned out DH needed one too (rough day at work) so we decided to meet for a half hour refresher. We were able to not ruin a $0 day though cause I had a Gift Card from Christmas for Dunkin Doughnuts. We never go there so we decided to finally use that. It was nice to spend a little adult time and get away from the house for a bit. Also went to Staples for a few things but used the free backpack G/C for that, and still have $35 left on it.
September 3- $25 Walgreen's, 2 belts for DD15 and white t-shirts for tye dyeing (for Disney.) $100 Sam's Membership renewal and groceries for DH's work and home, $10 gas. Went out to dinner but grandma and grandpa took us.
September 4- $150 Kohl's, kids school clothes. $12 Claires, earrings for kids. $5.00 Justice earrnings. $41 Aero, kids school clothes. $98 JCPenney's kids clothes. $15 lunch at the mall. $10 pizza for dinner. The kids had pretzels at the mall too, but I had coupons so they were free!!!
2 Lessons today (I knew them but was reminded of them.) Grandma likes to eat out. When she is here we go out. And GIRLS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!
September 5- Spent the day at Niagara Falls...$10 parking, $56 Maid of the Mist, $30 eating out lunch and dinner.
September 6- $38, last ballgame of the season, $60 groceries (though $30 of it was teeth whitening strips for DD15,) $3 Staples school supplies.
September 7- Decided to take the kids seperately to pick out their first day outifts. That was more headache maybe then it was worth and made for more spending days. Anyway, $145 school clothes for kids at Penney's (some I suspect will be returned.) And $1 for locer magnets for DD11. Also went to Chuck E Cheese for one last day beofre school starts lunch, but had a guest coupon still so we ate and played free.
September 8- $32 socks and lunch stuff, $27 dinner at Friendly's (been tradition for a dozen years) I used 3 kids eat free coupon and a $5 off coupon and got the bill cut in half.
September 9- Rough week! Today was supposed to be a $0 day, but my DH curprised me and took a vacation day today to spend with me (first day of school for DD15 so they wer all gone today.)
He's been working 80 weeks and needed this so bad. We got the kids off to school, spent the morning together, went to lunch (I had a coupon) and then came home and took a nap. It was a fantastic day and sorth every penny! I literally cried mid day, it was that perfect of a day. So, lunch $16 (including tip, dessert and lots of leftovers for tomorrow) Gas for my car $45, bread store $30 (stocked up on jams, DD8 is a PB&J addict) and finally $35 for some additional lunch things.
September 10-$0 It was rough, I wanted to go buy a gift for a party we have tomorrow (DD15's BFF's Sweet 16) but really wanted to get some work done around here and needed a $0 day so I will be going shopping for it in the morning.
September 11- DD15's BFF's sweet 16 party day. $16 cash plus $12 to make a candly flower pot and $5 for food for the kids to hold them over. (We went to a Free kids fest before. The plan was to have time to run home for a bite to eat but we got lost and so we didn't have long at the festival before we had to get to the party and not knowing when we'd eat I hit a drive though.)
September 12- I took DD8 adn DD15 to the amusement park, it was the lst day and we had free tickets. DH had gotten 7 thinking he and DD15 would go and she could take her 2 BFFs but he had to work and she had plans so the girls and I went. It is free parking and we didn't eat there so it was free. We gave a family the 4 extra tickets and they were very thankful. After we hit Subway and brought it home, $10.80. Then I did a LARGE grocery shopping, I needed a lot, $150. Tonight hubby took me out to dinner, I had a coupon for a free appetizer, $36. Going to try and start organizing my tornado of a basement tomorrow. It's the first full week of school and I need to getback into cleaning mode. Hopefully that will mean it will be a $0 day, I need to catch up!
September 13-$0 Kind of sad to get one today. I shoudl have paid dance tuition today, but DD11 decided to drop ballet, tap and jazz. She will still do hip hop and DD8 will still dance but won't pay till I go tomorrow. I always said I'd never push them to do anything they didn't want to, and I still won't, but now that she has decided this I am sad. She's been dancing 7 years. Today I worked on the basement and cooked several meals for the freezer and spent nothing.
September 14-$0 Well, with DD11 dropping dance the girl didn't know what my bill was so I will pay it tomorrow or Thursday. So, today was a no spend day after all!
September 15-$0 Took back bottles today and got back $25.45. That is a crazy amount of bottles. DH had told DD15 if she did it she could have the money but I finally had enough and did it myself. I don't think she realized how a nickle at a time adds up.
September 16-$0 Got a bunch of rebates and a large flex reimbursement check for DD's wisdom teeth, that with the $25 from bottles yesterday and I added $550 to the Disney account.
September 17- Dance Tuition $86, used hip-hop shoes $5, Sam's lunch, $2.68, Stock up @ Sam's (including some clothes for DH) $273.68, gas, $31.23
September 18- DH had to work out of town and attend a funeral, so DD8 and DD11 and I decided to keep him company in the car and make a day of it. He dropped us off at Corning Museum of Glass, $14 admission. We met back up for a late lunch $40 (ouch!) Then we waled in the little town, DH bought a sluch for me and the kids to share $2, then we took the kids to a place with bumper boats, it was $7.50 for the 2 of them. It was supposed to be 10 minutes, but there was no one there so they let them play as long as they wanted. They played for about an hour and when they were done they were soaked! We took their clothes off and put on the sweatshirt I had packed and wrapped them in blankets for the ride home. NOTE TO SELF, those boats spray too! After that we waited in the car for a while while DH worked (we had half naked kids remember.) So they played on their DSs and and I surfed on DIS.
Then we made the 2 hours drive home. After I hit the grocery store, $80.83 and got DH some slipper and DD15 some medicine $18.22. After all that I was too tired to think about dinner so I got a pizza for $7.50. I spent a ton on groceries this week as I am refilling my freezer. I ahve piles of sloppy joe, a tray of lasagna and a tray of shells in there now (we had another tray of lasagne last night.) Tomorrow I will make stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage and freeze much of it. I also will be putting pulled pork in the crock pot before I go to bed tonight so it can be frozen in the morning. I will also be making banana and zucchini bread tomorrow. Soooooo, that is the reason for the higher grocery bills this week.
September 19-$0 Well, I woke up feeling so fallish and wanting to go and enjoy the morning the way we usually do every fall weekend, picking apples and haivng cider and dounuts for breakfast. But, fall allergies were kicking my family's butts. DH was up all night and DD11 and DD15 were feeling kind of lousy too. DD8 was game as was DD11, but for the first time of the season I wanted to go as a family, so I decided to amke the first time next weekend. Sad to not go, but we stayed in, stocked the freezer and spent nothing.
September 20-$0 I did have to get my car worked on today to the tune of $800. 
It was maintence (60,00 mile stuff, new tires, new brakes, oil change) and as my DH put it, a bill. So I am calling it as such and calling today a $0 day. But OUCH, that hurt!
September 21-$0 I actually MADE $10 today! At the kids dance school they have a place where yo ucan leave your old shoes and people can buy them for $5. I sold 2 pairs so far, so I got $10 today! I aslo took the kids for Frosty's but we had free coupons to hurry up and use, so that was free 9otherwise we wouldn't have gone.)
September 22- During dance I ran to Target. I looked and felt like a slob and was going straight to Girl Scouts after. So I got a new shirt, and saw they had flip flops on sale for $.62 a pair, so I got each kid 3 pairs for Florida/next year. I also got DD8 a pair of knock-off Twinkle Toesin a size up form her real twinkle toes, also on clearance for $10. So that ran me almost $50, but I felt so much less slob like, so it was worth it. Then we went to dinner with scouts, $7 and I got $20 in gas on the way home. Oh, and I sold another pair of shoes at sance so $5 for the Disney fund!
September 23-$0 The Staples Rebates have been coming in steadily, but today I got over $110 worth of them in the mail!
September 24- Uggg, it had been a $0 day till DD15 ased for money to go to Homecoming. She is 2 weeks away from being able to get a JOB! So I gave her $6 for the game and dinner with her friends (gave her $10, she actually brought home change!). (Back in my day we had a dance, I never went but the girls who did spent a lot of $ so I guess I get off cheap.) Anyway, I was worn out from a long week and when DH suggested that he and I take the younger 2 to our favorite pizza place I figures I had already blown the day so why not. So we spend $22 on a sheet pizza, at about half and brought the rest home, it will be lunch tomorrow, so not too bad. Oh, and on the way to the game I gave each of the girls a free coupon for a Frosty and they went and got those. I still have 11 left (they expire the end of the month, got piles of them this summer when we went to the free movies.) I gave DD $1 to buy a sheet of the Halloween free Frosty coupons.
September 25- Michael's $19.96 for a tye dye kit, going to attempt the Mickey tye dye in the morning. ACMoore $4.32 (2) clearance art kids for b-day party gifts. $35ish for gas (forgot receipt in the car.) $50.18 groceries at Sam's + ice cream for kids at Sam's $1.61. Lunch out with the kids $9.45. Needed to get DD15 an SAT calculator, DD11 a swim cap and a new hairdryer (mine is making me nervous) $40 at Target. A few groceries and headphones for the kids at Walmart $28.80.
September 26- $17 cider, donuts and piles of apples (we picked), $66.50 Wegman's, groceries. (Picking apples, coming home and turning them into a pie and having warm apple pie for dessert with the family...priceless!) Great Fall Day!!! I won't make the no spend goal though, DD needs band stuff (book, practice drum and drumsticks) and the store wasn't open on the weekend.
Otherwise I could have made it!
September 27-$0 I stayed in and did the tye dye Mickey shirts today. I think I may have blown $40 but we will see tomorrow.
September 28-$0
Septmeber 29-$0 Actually I spent $.48 on prints for a photo contest for DD11, but I had a return at the same store for $5.40 so instead I got back $4.92.
September 30-$0 Wheww, made it! Have a lot of school things tomorrow but you know, those almost shouldn't count. SATs and stuff aren't free but aren't really "shopping." Anyway, that is tomorrow and a new day and a new month, for September...I made it!
15/15 No Buy Days
************************
Happy About Record Since Joining No Buy-
January-14 Days
February-13 Days
March-17 Days
April-15 Days
May-15 Days
June-8 Days
July- 6 Days (only in town and only recorded half the month, probably had about 7-8 no buys while away)
August-15 Days
September-15 Days
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row!
I always do well on the months I start with a $0 day, here's hoping!September 2-$0
I had a late-day frustration break down with the kids (trying to get the house ready for company) and really needed a break. Turned out DH needed one too (rough day at work) so we decided to meet for a half hour refresher. We were able to not ruin a $0 day though cause I had a Gift Card from Christmas for Dunkin Doughnuts. We never go there so we decided to finally use that. It was nice to spend a little adult time and get away from the house for a bit. Also went to Staples for a few things but used the free backpack G/C for that, and still have $35 left on it. September 3- $25 Walgreen's, 2 belts for DD15 and white t-shirts for tye dyeing (for Disney.) $100 Sam's Membership renewal and groceries for DH's work and home, $10 gas. Went out to dinner but grandma and grandpa took us.
September 4- $150 Kohl's, kids school clothes. $12 Claires, earrings for kids. $5.00 Justice earrnings. $41 Aero, kids school clothes. $98 JCPenney's kids clothes. $15 lunch at the mall. $10 pizza for dinner. The kids had pretzels at the mall too, but I had coupons so they were free!!!
2 Lessons today (I knew them but was reminded of them.) Grandma likes to eat out. When she is here we go out. And GIRLS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!
September 5- Spent the day at Niagara Falls...$10 parking, $56 Maid of the Mist, $30 eating out lunch and dinner.
September 6- $38, last ballgame of the season, $60 groceries (though $30 of it was teeth whitening strips for DD15,) $3 Staples school supplies.
September 7- Decided to take the kids seperately to pick out their first day outifts. That was more headache maybe then it was worth and made for more spending days. Anyway, $145 school clothes for kids at Penney's (some I suspect will be returned.) And $1 for locer magnets for DD11. Also went to Chuck E Cheese for one last day beofre school starts lunch, but had a guest coupon still so we ate and played free.
September 8- $32 socks and lunch stuff, $27 dinner at Friendly's (been tradition for a dozen years) I used 3 kids eat free coupon and a $5 off coupon and got the bill cut in half.
September 9- Rough week! Today was supposed to be a $0 day, but my DH curprised me and took a vacation day today to spend with me (first day of school for DD15 so they wer all gone today.)
He's been working 80 weeks and needed this so bad. We got the kids off to school, spent the morning together, went to lunch (I had a coupon) and then came home and took a nap. It was a fantastic day and sorth every penny! I literally cried mid day, it was that perfect of a day. So, lunch $16 (including tip, dessert and lots of leftovers for tomorrow) Gas for my car $45, bread store $30 (stocked up on jams, DD8 is a PB&J addict) and finally $35 for some additional lunch things.September 10-$0
It was rough, I wanted to go buy a gift for a party we have tomorrow (DD15's BFF's Sweet 16) but really wanted to get some work done around here and needed a $0 day so I will be going shopping for it in the morning. September 11- DD15's BFF's sweet 16 party day. $16 cash plus $12 to make a candly flower pot and $5 for food for the kids to hold them over. (We went to a Free kids fest before. The plan was to have time to run home for a bite to eat but we got lost and so we didn't have long at the festival before we had to get to the party and not knowing when we'd eat I hit a drive though.)
September 12- I took DD8 adn DD15 to the amusement park, it was the lst day and we had free tickets. DH had gotten 7 thinking he and DD15 would go and she could take her 2 BFFs but he had to work and she had plans so the girls and I went. It is free parking and we didn't eat there so it was free. We gave a family the 4 extra tickets and they were very thankful. After we hit Subway and brought it home, $10.80. Then I did a LARGE grocery shopping, I needed a lot, $150. Tonight hubby took me out to dinner, I had a coupon for a free appetizer, $36. Going to try and start organizing my tornado of a basement tomorrow. It's the first full week of school and I need to getback into cleaning mode. Hopefully that will mean it will be a $0 day, I need to catch up!
September 13-$0
Kind of sad to get one today. I shoudl have paid dance tuition today, but DD11 decided to drop ballet, tap and jazz. She will still do hip hop and DD8 will still dance but won't pay till I go tomorrow. I always said I'd never push them to do anything they didn't want to, and I still won't, but now that she has decided this I am sad. She's been dancing 7 years. Today I worked on the basement and cooked several meals for the freezer and spent nothing. September 14-$0 Well, with DD11 dropping dance the girl didn't know what my bill was so I will pay it tomorrow or Thursday. So, today was a no spend day after all!
September 15-$0
Took back bottles today and got back $25.45. That is a crazy amount of bottles. DH had told DD15 if she did it she could have the money but I finally had enough and did it myself. I don't think she realized how a nickle at a time adds up. September 16-$0
Got a bunch of rebates and a large flex reimbursement check for DD's wisdom teeth, that with the $25 from bottles yesterday and I added $550 to the Disney account. September 17- Dance Tuition $86, used hip-hop shoes $5, Sam's lunch, $2.68, Stock up @ Sam's (including some clothes for DH) $273.68, gas, $31.23
September 18- DH had to work out of town and attend a funeral, so DD8 and DD11 and I decided to keep him company in the car and make a day of it. He dropped us off at Corning Museum of Glass, $14 admission. We met back up for a late lunch $40 (ouch!) Then we waled in the little town, DH bought a sluch for me and the kids to share $2, then we took the kids to a place with bumper boats, it was $7.50 for the 2 of them. It was supposed to be 10 minutes, but there was no one there so they let them play as long as they wanted. They played for about an hour and when they were done they were soaked! We took their clothes off and put on the sweatshirt I had packed and wrapped them in blankets for the ride home. NOTE TO SELF, those boats spray too! After that we waited in the car for a while while DH worked (we had half naked kids remember.) So they played on their DSs and and I surfed on DIS.
Then we made the 2 hours drive home. After I hit the grocery store, $80.83 and got DH some slipper and DD15 some medicine $18.22. After all that I was too tired to think about dinner so I got a pizza for $7.50. I spent a ton on groceries this week as I am refilling my freezer. I ahve piles of sloppy joe, a tray of lasagna and a tray of shells in there now (we had another tray of lasagne last night.) Tomorrow I will make stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage and freeze much of it. I also will be putting pulled pork in the crock pot before I go to bed tonight so it can be frozen in the morning. I will also be making banana and zucchini bread tomorrow. Soooooo, that is the reason for the higher grocery bills this week. September 19-$0
Well, I woke up feeling so fallish and wanting to go and enjoy the morning the way we usually do every fall weekend, picking apples and haivng cider and dounuts for breakfast. But, fall allergies were kicking my family's butts. DH was up all night and DD11 and DD15 were feeling kind of lousy too. DD8 was game as was DD11, but for the first time of the season I wanted to go as a family, so I decided to amke the first time next weekend. Sad to not go, but we stayed in, stocked the freezer and spent nothing.September 20-$0
I did have to get my car worked on today to the tune of $800. It was maintence (60,00 mile stuff, new tires, new brakes, oil change) and as my DH put it, a bill. So I am calling it as such and calling today a $0 day. But OUCH, that hurt!September 21-$0
I actually MADE $10 today! At the kids dance school they have a place where yo ucan leave your old shoes and people can buy them for $5. I sold 2 pairs so far, so I got $10 today! I aslo took the kids for Frosty's but we had free coupons to hurry up and use, so that was free 9otherwise we wouldn't have gone.)September 22- During dance I ran to Target. I looked and felt like a slob and was going straight to Girl Scouts after. So I got a new shirt, and saw they had flip flops on sale for $.62 a pair, so I got each kid 3 pairs for Florida/next year. I also got DD8 a pair of knock-off Twinkle Toesin a size up form her real twinkle toes, also on clearance for $10. So that ran me almost $50, but I felt so much less slob like, so it was worth it. Then we went to dinner with scouts, $7 and I got $20 in gas on the way home. Oh, and I sold another pair of shoes at sance so $5 for the Disney fund!
September 23-$0
The Staples Rebates have been coming in steadily, but today I got over $110 worth of them in the mail!September 24- Uggg, it had been a $0 day till DD15 ased for money to go to Homecoming. She is 2 weeks away from being able to get a JOB! So I gave her $6 for the game and dinner with her friends (gave her $10, she actually brought home change!). (Back in my day we had a dance, I never went but the girls who did spent a lot of $ so I guess I get off cheap.) Anyway, I was worn out from a long week and when DH suggested that he and I take the younger 2 to our favorite pizza place I figures I had already blown the day so why not. So we spend $22 on a sheet pizza, at about half and brought the rest home, it will be lunch tomorrow, so not too bad. Oh, and on the way to the game I gave each of the girls a free coupon for a Frosty and they went and got those. I still have 11 left (they expire the end of the month, got piles of them this summer when we went to the free movies.) I gave DD $1 to buy a sheet of the Halloween free Frosty coupons.
September 25- Michael's $19.96 for a tye dye kit, going to attempt the Mickey tye dye in the morning. ACMoore $4.32 (2) clearance art kids for b-day party gifts. $35ish for gas (forgot receipt in the car.) $50.18 groceries at Sam's + ice cream for kids at Sam's $1.61. Lunch out with the kids $9.45. Needed to get DD15 an SAT calculator, DD11 a swim cap and a new hairdryer (mine is making me nervous) $40 at Target. A few groceries and headphones for the kids at Walmart $28.80.
September 26- $17 cider, donuts and piles of apples (we picked), $66.50 Wegman's, groceries. (Picking apples, coming home and turning them into a pie and having warm apple pie for dessert with the family...priceless!) Great Fall Day!!! I won't make the no spend goal though, DD needs band stuff (book, practice drum and drumsticks) and the store wasn't open on the weekend.
Otherwise I could have made it!September 27-$0
I stayed in and did the tye dye Mickey shirts today. I think I may have blown $40 but we will see tomorrow. September 28-$0
Septmeber 29-$0
Actually I spent $.48 on prints for a photo contest for DD11, but I had a return at the same store for $5.40 so instead I got back $4.92.September 30-$0
Wheww, made it! Have a lot of school things tomorrow but you know, those almost shouldn't count. SATs and stuff aren't free but aren't really "shopping." Anyway, that is tomorrow and a new day and a new month, for September...I made it!15/15 No Buy Days
************************
Happy About Record Since Joining No Buy-
January-14 Days
February-13 Days
March-17 Days
April-15 Days
May-15 Days
June-8 Days
July- 6 Days (only in town and only recorded half the month, probably had about 7-8 no buys while away)
August-15 Days
September-15 Days
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row!
