February No Buy ~ 2014

[stayhomemom77]

FEBRUARY
1-$0 Was out on my own today but resisted the urge to pick up McDonalds
2-$0
3-$0
4-$2 (DH and I were parched during the kid's badminton lessons so we bought a soda from the vending machine)
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0 (was supposed to hit the dollar store but I forgot! So an inadvertent no buy day )
8-$0 (went out to a movie and dinner with the family...used gift cards so no pocket money was needed!! )
9-$0 (calling it now as I never shop on Sundays)
10-$0
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9/20 No buy days

 

[QVCshopper]

We are getting more snow, possibly a blizzard. I don't even want to leave the house anymore. Such a horrible, awful winter.

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

No-buy days: 9/14

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

We are getting more snow, possibly a blizzard. I don't even want to leave the house anymore. Such a horrible, awful winter. 2/1 No-buy #1 2/2 Spend 2/3 No-buy #2 2/4 No-buy #3 2/5 No-buy #4 2/6 No-buy #5 2/7 No-buy #6 2/8 No-buy #7 2/9 Spend 2/10 No-buy #8 2/11 No-buy #9 No-buy days: 9/14

Sorry about the weather! I am right there with you. They are saying 8-16 inches for us tomorrow night into Thursday. If school is closed Thursday DS17's graduation pushes back a week which means we will not go to France with my parents. Sorta irritated about that.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

2/1 - Spend dinner out
2/2 - Spend lunch out
2/3 - no buy #1
2/4 - spend - Target, grocery, fuel, lunch out
2/5 - no buy #2
2/6 - no buy #3
2/7 - spend lunch at Panera, Target, Stop and Shop
2/8 - spend - much needed hair cuts for the younger boys, $20 to DS13 to go to the movies
2/9 - spend nordstrom, CPK, Art of Shave, Urban outfitters, athleta
2/10 - spend grocery store
2/11 - spend tea shop, subway

 

[charming23]

Monday was a no buy day. Today I ran some errands when I left work and then spent some of my birthday money but I will not be counting that here.

2/1 $0
2/2 $123.14 Target and $21.99 Prescriptions
2/3 $0
2/4 $53.37 Giant Eagle
2/5 $0
2/6 $0
2/7 $0
2/8 $59.13 Walmart, $25.86 Gas, $49.79 Aldi, $6.87 McDonalds, and $20 Whiskey Dogg
2/9 $0
2/10 $0
2/11 $52.07 Target and $6.89 chick fil a


7/14 no buy days

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

I am soooo over all this snow this year. Yet another storm coming in on Thursday. This one is supposed to be the biggest so far.

02/01: $20.00 for 2 Pasta dinner fundraiser tickets (applying to Eat Out). Also spent $10.00 for raffle tickets and $72.00 for silent auction items won at the same fundraiser(applying to Misc). We won 2 Alex and Ani bracelets, 3 bottles of wine, 2 bottles of beer, 5 gift certificates for area restaurants (total value $120.00), and a weekend getaway to a local hotel that has an indoor pool. We did really well.
02/02: $6.00 newspapers (apply to groceries)
02/03: -0-
02/04: $28.00 a few extras to be prepared for the storm.
02/05: -0-
02/06: -0-
02/07: -0- It's just been to cold to do anything but go to work and come right home.
02/08: $50.00 gas
02/09: $73.00 groceries
02/10: -0-
02/11: -0-
We are now a Family of 4 adults w/1 dog...
Groceries/Household spending: $107/$250.00
Gas for 1 van: $50/$250
Eat Out: $20/$100
Misc: $82/$250
No Buy Days: 6/15
Coupon Savings: $66
Total Coupon savings for 2014:$71.00. I'm going to try the envelope system for my coupon savings
Starting another envelope for any money not spent from my expected grocery budget. $60.00

 

[MomToOne]

Just checking in...after my (almost) complete no-spend week last week, I'm doing good at staying at or under my $70 allowance for this week so far, but that may change - I just sent my first email off to the Polish State Archives requesting a search of birth records for my Great Grandparents (Considering it had to be written in Polish and I don't speak a LICK of Polish, that's a big accomplishment. But thanks to the Internet, you can do all sorts of things these days, including find properly translated sentences for a letter to the Polish State Archives!! ) My understanding is that they charge $30-40/hour for a search, plus a ridiculous amount for a copy, so I may have a pretty hefty charge coming my way since I only have a village and year for my Great-Grandfather and it may take a fair amount of time to do the search. But I've been working on our family tree for about a year now, and this Polish branch always presented the biggest obstacle for me so I'm totally excited I've figured out enough stuff to submit a request!

I'm going to just track my total for each week, not each day, for the rest of the month.
Week of 2/9 - $24.76 Target (necessities only, no extra stuff) - $45+ of $70 allowance left

 

[stayhomemom77]

FEBRUARY
1-$0 Was out on my own today but resisted the urge to pick up McDonalds
2-$0
3-$0
4-$2 (DH and I were parched during the kid's badminton lessons so we bought a soda from the vending machine)
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0 (was supposed to hit the dollar store but I forgot! So an inadvertent no buy day )
8-$0 (went out to a movie and dinner with the family...used gift cards so no pocket money was needed!! )
9-$0 (calling it now as I never shop on Sundays)
10-$0
11-$0
12-$5 for parking (Dr appt), $3.00 Valentine candies, $4.15 Dollarama
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10/20 No buy days

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

2/1 - Spend dinner out
2/2 - Spend lunch out
2/3 - no buy #1
2/4 - spend - Target, grocery, fuel, lunch out
2/5 - no buy #2
2/6 - no buy #3
2/7 - spend lunch at Panera, Target, Stop and Shop
2/8 - spend - much needed hair cuts for the younger boys, $20 to DS13 to go to the movies
2/9 - spend nordstrom, CPK, Art of Shave, Urban outfitters, athleta
2/10 - spend grocery store
2/11 - spend tea shop, subway
2/12 - spend Dick's sporting goods, Target, Grocery store, Gap, ACMoore. I hate the last minute shopping for Disney trips
2/13 - No buy day #4 - more snow! LOL

 

[ashleyasiegel]

2/1 - $35 Tubing
2/2 - $45.91 Frozen swimsuit/cover up for Easter basket Disney surprise reveal, $46 for cold meds/few groceries
2/3 - $0
2/4 - $12 - Daughter's school yearbook
2/5 - $45 Disney on Ice tickets for me and my girls
2/6 - $30 daughters valentine present, $10.59 BK dinner for 4
2/7 - $8.92 mommy daughter lunch date, $31.76 Scrapbook crop/picture printing, $50 flowergirl dress, $9.54 Valentines for school, $5.38 Groceries
2/8 - $0
2/9 - $32 Movies, 1.65 Groceries, $45 Gas
2/10 -$0
2/11 - $100 Preschool Tuition deposit, $6.29 Grocery, 3.18 Hubby lunch out
2/12 - $90.40 Disney store
2/13
2/14
2/15
2/16
2/17
2/18
2/19
2/20
2/21
2/22
2/23
2/24
2/25
2/26
2/27
2/28

Goals
No-buy days: 3/5
Groceries: $59.32/300
Gas $45/125
Eating out: $22.69/75
Activites: $112

 

[Deffenm]

Goals:
15 no buy days
$600 groceries
$400 gas
$40 eating out

2/1 - $0
2/2 - $20 eating out, $367.57 groceries
2/3 -$0
2/4 - $73.17 gas
2/5 - $0
2/6 - $20.86 eating out, $72.51 gas
2/7 - $0
2/8 - $145.05 groceries
2/9 - $0
2/10 - $0
2/11 - $0
2/12 - $0
2/13 - $8.49 lunch

 

[QVCshopper]

I spent money yesterday trying to get ready for my kids's Valentine's Day parties and my daughter's snack badge for Brownies. But now it's looking like they won't have school tomorrow, so no party. At least I mostly got stuff we regularly eat. I also did some gas deals at the grocery store and now have $1.70 off per gallon, up to 30 gallons. Makes the food I bought basically free after gas rewards.

Stay safe and warm everyone who is affected by the snow. I think we are getting two feet! There's over a foot out there already. Seriously, though, you can't go anywhere. I never thought I'd have 10 no-buy days already--it's only the 13th of February!

2/1 No-buy #1
2/2 Spend
2/3 No-buy #2
2/4 No-buy #3
2/5 No-buy #4
2/6 No-buy #5
2/7 No-buy #6
2/8 No-buy #7
2/9 Spend
2/10 No-buy #8
2/11 No-buy #9
2/12 Spend
2/13 No-buy #10

No-buy days: 10/14

 

[MomToOne]

The good news: the Polish State Archives found the records I wanted without an extensive search. They just wanted about $5 to scan and send the copies.

The bad news: all of the fees to wire that $5 cost me $40 (The only way the Archive will accept payment from overseas is to wire it directly into their account at the National Bank of Poland. All the cheaper wire options only allow you to send funds to an account with an individual's name on it, not a business/agency name on it.) Oh well, I'm TOTALLY excited they found something and compared to the cost of getting document copies in the US, the price really isn't that bad. Their email reply already gave me the first names of all of my 4 Great-Great-Grandparents along that line, something that had been previously lost to the ages!

Week of 2/9 - $24.76 Target (necessities only, no extra stuff), $45 documents from Polish State Archives - $0.24/$70 allowance left

 

[Deffenm]

Goals:
15 no buy days
$600 groceries
$400 gas
$40 eating out

2/1 - $0
2/2 - $20 eating out, $367.57 groceries
2/3 -$0
2/4 - $73.17 gas
2/5 - $0
2/6 - $20.86 eating out, $72.51 gas
2/7 - $0
2/8 - $145.05 groceries
2/9 - $0
2/10 - $0
2/11 - $0
2/12 - $0
2/13 - $8.49 lunch
2/14 - $0 have everything I need for Valentines Day already at home ready to go.

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

It's snowing again!!!!

02/01: $20.00 for 2 Pasta dinner fundraiser tickets (applying to Eat Out). Also spent $10.00 for raffle tickets and $72.00 for silent auction items won at the same fundraiser(applying to Misc). We won 2 Alex and Ani bracelets, 3 bottles of wine, 2 bottles of beer, 5 gift certificates for area restaurants (total value $120.00), and a weekend getaway to a local hotel that has an indoor pool. We did really well.
02/02: $6.00 newspapers (apply to groceries)
02/03: -0-
02/04: $28.00 a few extras to be prepared for the storm.
02/05: -0-
02/06: -0-
02/07: -0- It's just been to cold to do anything but go to work and come right home.
02/08: $50.00 gas
02/09: $73.00 groceries
02/10: -0-
02/11: -0-
02/12: $39.00 at Walmart. $15 for DD's Valentines gifts and $19 for food
02/13: -0- Snow day, but still a work day. Everyone had the day off but me!
02/14: -0-
02/15:
We are now a Family of 4 adults w/1 dog...
Groceries/Household spending: $107/$250.00
Gas for 1 van: $50/$250
Eat Out: $20/$100
Misc: $95/$250
No Buy Days: 8/15
Coupon Savings: $71
Total Coupon savings for 2014:$71.00. I'm going to try the envelope system for my coupon savings
Starting another envelope for any money not spent from my expected grocery budget. $60.00

 

[charming23]

Wednesday I spent money on takeout

Thursday and friday were no buys.

Today was errand day

2/1 $0
2/2 $123.14 Target and $21.99 Prescriptions
2/3 $0
2/4 $53.37 Giant Eagle
2/5 $0
2/6 $0
2/7 $0
2/8 $59.13 Walmart, $25.86 Gas, $49.79 Aldi, $6.87 McDonalds, and $20 Whiskey Dogg
2/9 $0
2/10 $0
2/11 $52.07 Target and $6.89 chick fil a
2/12 $23.44 Bay Diner
2/13 $0
2/14 $0
2/15 $38.45 Target, $25.92 Kmart, and $70.97 Trader Joes


9/14 no buy days

 

[MomToOne]

Finishing out my week...went over but wouldn't have if I hadn't worked on the family tree this week. I'm good with it though - somethings are just more important in life and I can't wait to tell my mother what I learned this week about the family in our weekly phone call tomorrow

I track only non-bill, non-gas, non-grocery spending (all the spending covered by my normal $70 miscellaneous weekly allowance):

Week of 2/2 - $12.56 McDonalds - $12.56/$0 (was supposed to be my no-spend week)

Week of 2/9 - $24.76 Target, $45 documents from Polish State Archives, $15.62 Chipotle Take out for Vday (my gift to myself LOL) - $85.38/$70

While I've been over budget both weeks, I was under budget in some other categories, so I've actually moved an extra $50 into savings so far this month (over my normal budgetted savings amount). So I'm good with where I am.

Here's to a strong week #3!!!!

 

[Resa52]

I'm in for the rest of the month with exclusions of a prescription that I need to pick up tomorrow!

 

[charming23]

Having a lazy day at home. My work schedule has changed and I am now working Monday to Friday with weekends off. I work in retail so that is a pretty sweet schedule.

2/1 $0
2/2 $123.14 Target and $21.99 Prescriptions
2/3 $0
2/4 $53.37 Giant Eagle
2/5 $0
2/6 $0
2/7 $0
2/8 $59.13 Walmart, $25.86 Gas, $49.79 Aldi, $6.87 McDonalds, and $20 Whiskey Dogg
2/9 $0
2/10 $0
2/11 $52.07 Target and $6.89 chick fil a
2/12 $23.44 Bay Diner
2/13 $0
2/14 $0
2/15 $38.45 Target, $25.92 Kmart, and $70.97 Trader Joes
2/16 $0

10/14 no buy days

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

02/01: $20.00 for 2 Pasta dinner fundraiser tickets (applying to Eat Out). Also spent $10.00 for raffle tickets and $72.00 for silent auction items won at the same fundraiser(applying to Misc). We won 2 Alex and Ani bracelets, 3 bottles of wine, 2 bottles of beer, 5 gift certificates for area restaurants (total value $120.00), and a weekend getaway to a local hotel that has an indoor pool. We did really well.
02/02: $6.00 newspapers (apply to groceries)
02/03: -0-
02/04: $28.00 a few extras to be prepared for the storm.
02/05: -0-
02/06: -0-
02/07: -0- It's just been to cold to do anything but go to work and come right home.
02/08: $50.00 gas
02/09: $73.00 groceries
02/10: -0-
02/11: -0-
02/12: $39.00 at Walmart. $15 for DD's Valentines gifts and $19 for food
02/13: -0- Snow day, but still a work day. Everyone had the day off but me!
02/14: -0-
02/15: $25.00 Night out. $6 in newspapers
02/16: -0- Never left the house.
We are now a Family of 4 adults w/1 dog...
Groceries/Household spending: $113/$250.00
Gas for 1 van: $50/$250
Eat Out: $45/$100
Misc: $95/$250
No Buy Days: 9/15
Coupon Savings: $71
Total Coupon savings for 2014:$71.00. I'm going to try the envelope system for my coupon savings
Starting another envelope for any money not spent from my expected grocery budget. $60.00