Get on board! October No Buy thread

[Virgderon]

Went to the Tampa Bay Rays playoff game today. Dh bought the tickets out of his budget, so I won't count it in my total. It was expensive, but kind of a special occasion. I think I should call this our "month of fun"! We have tickets to a concert, a hockey game and I still have DD coming to town for Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party.

Running Total: Spent $194
$1000 budget...$806 left
$0 Days: 1
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
October 4: 0
October 5 : 41 ( 32 bowling 9 misc Walgreens)
October 6 : 57 (18 parking, 39 lunch at Rays game)

 

[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 / $45 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $100 / $40 left
Giving $25
Groceries/Household Goods $175 / $164 left
Medical $25 / $19 left
Misc. $100 / $97 left

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
10/3 $53 Eating out
10/4 $7 Eating out
10/5 $6 Medical (OTC meds); $3 Misc. (postage)
10/6 $30 Auto (gas); $11 Groceries

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $79.17
$0 Days:2/10

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)- $35.45
Eating Out ($300)- $35.33
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $8.39

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

Week 2:
Groceries- $0 left
Eating Out- $54.02 left
Misc- $49.51 left

Week 3:
Groceries- $21
Eating Out- $70
Misc- $45

WEEK 1 BEGIN:
1- $2.47 (Shopping-Toys R Us), $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:
3- $0
4- $19.14 (Groceries- Joe Caputo), $.90 (Groceries-Aldi), $2.88 (Groceries-CVS), $3.56 (Groceries-Walgreens)
5- $4.15 (Eating Out-Burger King), $9.15 (Eating Out-McDonald's), $3.92 (Shopping-Toys R Us), $4.15 (Groceries-Meijer), $.60 (Groceries-Jewel)
6- $0


Budget: $600....13%
Month: 6/31: 19%

My savings from coupons and sales: $316.17

 

[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
4: $0
5: $27 Target (on a side note: why is toilet paper so dang expensive?)
6: $44 halloween party supplies, $20 medical co-pay, $27 dinner out with friends

3/15 no buy days

 

[lougoofy]

$2.37 sodas

10/06/10: $1.16 coffee

 

[Siouxstone]

My roast was bad on Tuesday (I didn't see the hole in the package) and it was too late to shift gears, so we went to Chick-fil-a after open house at school. I simply must go to the store today so that I can buy stuff for dinner tonight and on the road tomorrow night. If I pack a cooler, I may be able to pull off a $0 day tomorrow, if not, I won't have another one till next week.

10/1- .65 coke machine
10/2-$0
10/3-$115 Sams & HEB, $52 gas (both cars)
10/4-$0
10/5-epic failure for dinner leads to $16 Chick-fil-a
10/6-$0

Groceries/Household/Dog~ $650 ($519 left)
Gas~ $160 ($108 left)
Dad's birthday weekend away~ $300
Halloween~ $100
DH's pocket money~ $80
Clothing~ $100
Medical~ $80

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Tonight is a fundraiser at school for DD8. It is at Chuck E Cheese. I could go for free since I still have one free pizza/token/drink certificate, but kind of feeling guilty since the school won't make anything off it. On the other hand I am annoyed with what they are doing with the fundraising money, they put in a playground that is only for K-2 to use, my youngest is in 3rd grade and their playground is small and not even usable right now. So, part of me says don't be cheap, buy a pizza and use the coupin another day, part of me says use the coupon. We will see as my day goes on how I feel...

 

[CobraBubbles]

I'm doing bad this month and pretty discouraged with myself. First it was the tires...couldn't help it. It is our anniversary this month. Presents are expensive and we are going out. We were going to go out to the first hockey game of the season, but I've actually nixed it because of the huge amounts we are spending on everything else.Hopefully I can get this spending under control, soon.

 

[yeahdisney]

I'm in for October. Our disney trip is next month. We just told the kids this weekend a trip to disney in 30 days! Spending this is what I'm going for.

Groceries $25 a week-eating out of the pantry/freezer.
Maybe eat out one more time this month less than $25 for the meal

Halloween costumes. DS wants to wear one I got for less a dollar last year.
DD wants to be a pirate. I just got her a piratey shirt to wear cause we are doing the pirate make over at disney. No halloween candy no one has ever come to our house

Will buy xmas gifts as see them.
Dog food.
Clorax wipes for the teacher-it is that season.
One birthday gift-brother.
$100 a cash price for the chimney sweep this year-is that a good price?

 

[MsDunny]

Is it too late to jump on board? Hope not!!

My goals:

grocery - $600
eat out - $200
misc. - $200

No spending days goal - 0/10

This is a great idea, and I'm new, so please help me out with your wonderful wisdom!!

 

[Virgderon]

MsDunny, not too late and welcome!

 

[beaucoup]

I would just love a month where something major doesn't break. Been really fun around here lately between hot water tank leaking and yesterday I had to call the fire dept.

Car needs brake job. Probably should put that off.

Usually very boring here. I think I like boring.

But to make up for it, I've started coming up with items to sell so its helping some.

 

[thebigkahuna]

I'm doing bad this month and pretty discouraged with myself. First it was the tires...couldn't help it. It is our anniversary this month. Presents are expensive and we are going out. We were going to go out to the first hockey game of the season, but I've actually nixed it because of the huge amounts we are spending on everything else.Hopefully I can get this spending under control, soon.

Dont be discouraged! Tires (although probably an unplaned expense) are a must for sure!

Presents for an anniversary? Well, those are a must. A happy wife = a happy life

and you canceled going to the game, which cuts a big chunk out of your optional spending!

you've taken a good step - sometimes I know just keeping track (here, or on a spreadsheet, or even manually in a calendar) helps me a lot. there are always things your don't plan for, and that's the reason for my budget! so I can try to be a bit better prepared for those things

good luck for the rest of the month, and keep posting - the 1st three months were the hardest for me, and it smoothed out after that

 

[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 - $0.00
10-04 - $11.30 post office
10-05 - $10.13 lunch
10-06 - under $3 at CVS. (used $4.50 in extra bucks!)
10-07 -

October Goal: 16 no $pend day$
# of no $pend day$: 1
# of no $pend day$ needed to meet goal: 15

 

[charming23]

So I had a good day today. Had a bunch of coupons to match sales at Giant Eagle for laundry detergent and stuff we badly needed. Also stopped for a quick lunh at McDonald's before stopping to get my ticket to see "Easy A" tonight with friends.

Groceries- $200/ $112.20 Left
Household/Pet- $50/ $13.85 Left
Gas/Car- $50
Eating out/Entertainment- $50/$42.62 Left
Misc- $50

Total- $400/ $268.67 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- $0
10/5- $0
10/6- $1.59 for a half gallon of milk at CVS
10/7- $28.13 Grocery, $14.18 Household/pet, $2.88 McDonald's, and $4.50 Movie ticket

Week Two
10/8-
10/9-
10/10-
10/11-
10/12-
10/13-
10/14-

4/15 No Buy Days

Coupon and Store Savings-$52.63

 

[neatokimmo]

We spent $8.39 on the preschool field trip yesterday. Today I hit the $1 reduced tag sale and got 28 pieces for DD for next summer and the summer after. About half of them had tags still I also got a shirt for myself, total was $31.76.

10/7 - $31.76 ($1 tag sale)
10/6 - 8.39 (field trip)
10/5 - $17.48
10/4 - 21.88
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 - $20.08/37.56
Clothes - ($44.69)/40
Makeup - $25/25
Cats - $35
Preschool extras - $1.61/10
Gas - $33/65
Toys - $0/25 - gave allowance instead
Misc - $46.41/80
Christmas - 10.46/??

 

[Virgderon]

Neato- that is the way to buy clothes!

Today is a 0 spend day, because I refuse to go out.

Running Total: Spent $194
$1000 budget...$806 left
$0 Days: 2
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
October 4: 0
October 5 : 41 ( 32 bowling 9 misc Walgreens)
October 6 : 57 (18 parking, 39 lunch at Rays game)
October 7: 0

 

[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
4: $0
5: $27 Target (on a side note: why is toilet paper so dang expensive?)
6: $44 halloween party supplies, $20 medical co-pay, $27 dinner out with friends
7: $0 Took the boys to the museum today, but we're members, so we had a no buy day!

4/15 no buy days

 

[neatokimmo]

Neato- that is the way to buy clothes!

One of the pieces is a light pink nwt janie and jack sweater with a $44.00 price on it I am so excited fro her to wear it lol

 

[ronnmel]

Ok, so maybe 250$ for non-necessities is really not a feasible limit...

No Buy Days : 3/15
Gas : 29$ (max 85$)
Groceries : 10$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 25$ (max 150$)
Non-necessities : 260$ (max 250$)

10/01 : 15$ (drinks with friends)
10/02 : 39$ (gas + breakfast)
10/03 : 0$
10/04 : 10$ (groceries)
10/05 : 0$
10/06 : 0$
10/07 : 260$ (salsa lessons registration)