Get on board! October No Buy thread

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $30.72
$0 Days:0/10

We will be in Florida the 15th-25th, but I will still be keeping track of the spending this is going to be interesting.

Groceries ($100)- $4.22
Eating Out ($300)- $22.03
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $4.47

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

Week 2:
Groceries- $27.23 left
Eating Out- $67.32 left
Misc- $53.43 left

Week 3:
Groceries- $25
Eating Out- $70
Misc- $45

WEEK 1 BEGIN:
1- $2.47 (Shopping-Toys R Us- bought DJ Hero for the Wii for $20, down from $70),I used all my Toys R Us Gift Cards, I also went to Walgreens and McDonald's but used my Office Depot Visa card rebate. $2.40 (Eating Out- Bought more gift certificates from Restaurant.com)
2- $19.63 (Eating Out- Five Guys), $2 (Shopping-Dollar Tree), $4.22 (Groceries-Meijer)
WEEK 2 BEGIN:



Budget: $600....5%
Month: 2/31: 6%

My savings from coupons and sales: $133.04

 

[Tiggerish]

October budget is $500 and no spend days goal of 7 for the 23 days I will not be doing Disney (cruise and parks).

Auto $75
Eating Out/Entertainment $100
Giving $25
Groceries/Household Goods $175
Medical $25
Misc. $100

No spend days goal = 2/7
Coupon savings =
Christmas 2010 running total of spending = $416
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10/1 $0
10/2 $0

 

[lattemomof3]

Oct 1 - $0

Oct 2 - $22.18 (movie & Taco Bell w/ mom, pajamas dd)

 

[lattemomof3]

MickeyMomofThree hope your back is feeling better SOON!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

MickeyMomofThree hope your back is feeling better SOON!

Awww, thank you! Today is better and I am up and getting ready to go to my favorite fall festival, so, it's looking up!

 

[Siouxstone]

ACK! I have got to buy a few things to take to work so that I don't spend there. I totally blew a $0 day on friday by my caffiene habit. Sure, its not much, but.... I have to go to Sams or HEB today. I work all day, so I'm not optimistic to think I"ll do both. I'm also going to need to fill up the car soon, so I might as well get it out of the way.
Have a great Sunday!

10/1- .65 coke machine
10/2-$0

Groceries/Household/Dog~ $650
Gas~ $160
Dad's birthday weekend away~ $300
Halloween~ $100
DH's pocket money~ $80
Clothing~ $100
Medical~ $80

 

[neatokimmo]

I just spent $26.97 on Croc flip flops of our Nov trip for ME! Black, brown and purple. I can ditch my clunky $5 outlet mary janes now and not feel like such a doofus all the time. I really like how comfy crocs are, but when you have a ginormous foot, they don't look the best.

I returned DDs hello kitty glitter shoes that she had to have because they hurt her feet. I got to say my first "I told you so". haha I got her a pair of brown shoes instead at Kohls on sale for $13.13. So I'll put $3.28 back into the clothing kitty.

I bought three things of cross stitch thread and a pack of felt for $2.46 late last night. That will make 20 hairbows that I plan to sell to earn extra vacation money for 2011.

10/3 = 32.71 (shoes for me me me! hairbow supplies minus diff in DD shoes)
10/2 = $18.25
10/1 = $148.07

Groceries - $58.66/120 (yikes!)
Eating out - $37.56
Clothes - ($12.93)/40
Makeup - $25/25
Cats - $35
Preschool extras - $10
Gas - $65 - 32
Toys - $0/25
Misc - $68.29/80
Christmas - 10.46/??

 

[charming23]

It is cold and rainy out today so I am staying put until I have to go to my Grandma's for dinner.

Groceries- $200/ $141.92 Left
Household/Pet- $50/ $28.03 Left
Gas/Car- $50
Eating out/Entertainment- $50
Misc- $50

Total- $400/ $319.95 Left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

Week One
10/1- $0
10/2- $58.08 Grocery and $21.97 Household
10/3- $0
10/4-
10/5-
10/6-
10/7-

2/15 No Buy Days

Coupon and Store Savings-$29.82

 

[ilovepete]

Oct 1 - $0
Oct 2 - $0
Oct 3 - I know we'll be spending today, we are going out to dinner with a certificate I got from Restaurant.com. So, although it will be a great deal, we'll still be spending something. AND I'm going to try to talk DH into hitting Target first, too.

 

[thebigkahuna]

Octobers goal is 16 no spend days.
Anticipated expenses include: Medical (amount not known), some Holiday shopping (amount not known, but limited to $200.00 for the month), I believe I have a passport expense coming up (YIKES! this has become expensive!), the cost of a replacement cell phone (I will keep this under $60.00) and also some misc. expenses of car maintenance, and jewelry repair. Oh and Beauty and the Beast out on 10-5. I will be picking that up for sure!


10-01 - $40.90 replacement phone (under my estimated cost!)
10-02 - $9.02 dinner
10-03 - food shopping - definitely budgeted, but lets see if I can stay in my budget!



October Goal: 16 no $pend day$
# of no $pend day$: 0
# of no $pend day$ needed to meet goal: 16

 

[3goofyboys]

My goal for this month is 15 no buy days. This might be tough because we're hosting a big halloween party mid-month, but I'm going to give it a shot.

1: $0
2: $30 groceries, $20 gas
3: $0

2/15 no buy days

 

[ceemys]

Ceemys, I agree with mickeysmate!
definitely don't be discouraged - the no buy is on your terms, but I don't know of many who include rent (or electric, or gas) because those are really mandatory - it's not an option to pay rent (well, for me it's not! LOL) so really, the rent and the gas are items you *had* to pay - I would say the only thing that made that day a "spend" day instead of a "no spend" day was the jr cheer costs.

Everyone does the no spend their own way, but I would say you are off to a good start!

Good luck for the rest of the month!

Thanks guys!! It is hard being a single parent of an 11y.o and a 3y.o but I think I make enough to make it good for us.

 

[Goofygirl17]

Definitely not a $0 day! But we've needed a new toaster oven for about 3 or 4 months and I hate heating up the big oven just to do something little. The Five Guys we could have skipped.

10/1 DQ for girls and 1 friend-- DD11 earned it as a reward
10/2 No spend so far except DH was sweet and bought me a coffee this a.m.
- $5 rx, (plus $3.50 of candy free w/ CVS ECB)
10/3 Super Walmart groceries $65, Target- new toaster oven misc $60, Five Guys $6.66


Extra Expenses I already know about-
gymnastics birthday party for DD8 (have to schedule)
school lunches
casual fridays at work
gymnastics? (have to see if they have openings)
riding lessons (still have to schedule)

 

[Virgderon]

Darn it. Really wanted the 0 spend day, but I needed to buy newspapers to get my coupons, and I NEEDED fudgesicles. Everyone has their priorities, and ice cream is one of mine. Don't judge. You know you want to go buy some fudgsicles right now.

Running Total: Spent $96
$1000 budget...$904 left
$0 Days:
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 11

Groceries budget- $250-9-12-4= 225 left

October 1 : 30 (groceries, misc)
October 2 : 57 (18 haircut, 5 used books, 11 Wendys, 8 food at college football game, 15 gas)
October 3: 9

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 1/15
Gas : 29$ (max 85$)
Groceries : 0$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 25$ (max 150$)
Non-necessities : 0$ (max 250$)

10/01 : 15$ (drinks with friends)
10/02 : 39$ (gas + breakfast)
10/03 : 0$

 

[Colleen27]

So far, so good:

10/1 - $21 eating out (our usual Friday family pizza & Netflix movie)
10/2 - $5 tip when my mom treated me to lunch, $25 groceries at the farmers market
10/3 - $0

And I haven't driven my van yet this month, so no gas so far.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Darn it. Really wanted the 0 spend day, but I needed to buy newspapers to get my coupons, and I NEEDED fudgesicles. Everyone has their priorities, and ice cream is one of mine. Don't judge. You know you want to go buy some fudgsicles right now.

Yep, now I do...thanks a lot!

 

[ceemys]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgderon
Darn it. Really wanted the 0 spend day, but I needed to buy newspapers to get my coupons, and I NEEDED fudgesicles. Everyone has their priorities, and ice cream is one of mine. Don't judge. You know you want to go buy some fudgsicles right now.


Yep, now I do...thanks a lot!

Yep, now I do...thanks a lot!

hmmm. How about banana popscicles! yummy!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

October 1- Not a good start. $55 DD15's yearbook, $18 DD15's PSAT, $4.50 2 kids wanted to buy lunch (we don't do this but once a month maybe twice for DD15) $14.50 school photos for DD8. Really messed up my back today (this is an ongoing and expensive problem) so I absolutely couldn't cook, plus I was supposed to get groceries and that was out. I barely made it to get the kids dinner, so a pizza at the drive thru $8 (DH isn't home or he'd have handled dinner.) However I subbed yesterday and today so I made some money (preschool, so just about $50 for the 2 days) and will be face painting at a festival tomorrow and will get $1 a kid, so that is good (hope it's busy!) And finally, the best news of the day...over the weekend I checked out state's unclaimed property and DH had one thing. It didn't say what it was but I filled out the form to get it and we got it today. It was a check for $338.88!!! DH and I are going to dinner and a movie tomorrow and putting the rest away.
October 2- Woke up wanting to go to the emergency room for my back, but had committed to being the face painter at a local festival so I pushed though and took my DD15 for help and we went. I gave her $4 for food out of what we made. DH and I were going to go out on a date but I couldn't hardly move so when I came hom I got inot bed and have been here since. So not quite a no spend day, but had she not gone with me there would have been no way I could have done it and wouldn't have made anything so it was money well spent. PLUS, I am starting to feel better so that is a $150 ER copay saved.
October 3- Apple Fest, I am clumping it all together at about $80 We ate, we bought a custome made sign for my DH's office and he bought me a really cool but totally unnecessary gift. BUT, it was an amazingly fun day. $100.52 @ Sam's. $3 ice cream for the kids at Sam's. $2 snack for DH. $20 gas and $84 groceries. Need to get back on track tomorrow!!!

No Spend Days 0/15


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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!

 

[lattemomof3]

Oct 1 - $0

Oct 2 - $22.18 (movie & Taco Bell w/ mom, pajamas dd)

Oct 3 - bad budget day! $11 Scholastic, $55 clothes for dd & friend's b-day
gift, $160 clothes for me (2 pair of much needed jeans, some shirts
& shoes). Had coupon codes for everything, ordered on-line from Old
Navy & Target, may end up returning some, that's usually how it goes!