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 custom 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!!!
October 4-$0 
"Technically"
DH had a coupon for lunch. He called and asked me to come and said he was going with or without me so I wouldn't be blowing a $0 day. He said he missed me cause I was in bed with my back most of the weekend.
How can you say no to that? So I went with him. Normally I'd count it but with the coupon and it coming out of his weekly spening money... oh then we got tickets to see a movie after work. We went to see "Life As We Know It," great movie! We went with the free preview passes.
October 5-$0 Calling it early today. Wasn't planning on spending anything anwyay, but woke up to a mouse in our house
so I baracaded myself in my bedroom and won't be leaving till DH gets home to check on me (and the traps) later this afternoon. Hopefully he will have caught it by then cause he has to work overnight tonight and while I wish I wasn't, I am so fearful of those little buggers!
ETA- Returned someting, credit about $10
October 6-$0 Calling it another early day. Only going for flu shots for the kids and Open House for DD11 tonight.
October 7- So annoyed!!! I decided I had to spend money at CEC for the kids school fundraiser. Using coupons I got a pizza with everything, drinks and 129 tokens for $19. It was such a mad house the kids mostly ran around with their friends and didn't use many tokens so we came home with over 100 left! Anyway, back to the annoying part. I had 2 gift cards for $16 each from Staples rebates. I figured I'd use those and wouldn't spend any money (the money for them was recorded back in August.) Well I asked her to put $15.99 on one and the rest on another. She kept putting the whole thing though and of course the card got declined. Well after her telling me 3 times in front of all the people around me from the kids' school, well, I got embarassed and just paid for it. The good news is I still have the gift cards for a rainy day. Bad news is, 8 days in and I only have 3 $0 days and today and tomorrrow won't be as it is my DD's Sweet 16 party today and tomorrow. BUT, that is budgeted and I want to spend more then she does so I have way more allowed for it then we will need.
October 8- DD's Sweet 16 Party so $$$. Dinner was $127
We went to a habatchi place. The girls all ordered what they wanted and drinks (my DD ordered water, she has been trained though I told her since it was her b-day she could have what she watned.) After the drinks came they decided they wanted virgin daquiris. No way was I paying $3 a drink PLUS $5 each for those so I said we'd make them later. Then they went to lazer tag, $48. While they were there I went and got the stuff for daquiris and a bunch of candy and a pie DD likes, $22.06. Gas $20. Redbox $1. $24 hoddie for DD11 with her new school name on it.
October 9- $35.58 Food for DH to tailgate tomorrow. His friend got the tickets so we bought the food. $18.86 allergy pills, fall allergies are kicking my family's tails. $22.27 makeup for me and dry shampoo for our trip (21 hour drive makes my hair look
) Date with the hubby
$50 and Haunted House for DD15 $9.
October 10- Not doing so well this month with the $0 days, but we are doing and not buying and that doesn't bother me as much. Today we spent the day at the Farm Festival. $24 admission for me and DD8 and DD11. Spent the whole day there. Didn't expect to be there though lunch and dinner and food was expensive so we got dinner on the way home for $18. It was, however, an alomst perfect Fall day. Had DH and DD15 been there it would have been perfect!
October 11- Continuing to do badly this month. The kids had off and Sweet and Sassy was doing free Updos and lomo rides, so we went there. No one was tipping but I felt I should so I gave each of the girls who did my DDs hair $3 and gave the limo driver $1 each girl. After I told them I'd take them to lunch. I didn't expect them to pick Taco Bell, but OK...$8. We went to paint pottery (I have a $25 G/C that I paid $5 for on Groupon) but they didn't hve the pieces they wanted in stock (after a 4 day weekend they were pretty pikced over) so we decided to wait. I had to stop at Walgreens and let them pick out a treat each (for the movies later) and got some Mickey Halloween ring pops for friends kids when they come here, that was $10. Then we went to the movies $3 for 4 of us to see Despicable Me, it was funny! Then I went and got some milk and an easy dinner and the stuff to make DD's cupcakes for her b-day tomorrow (in HS they can bring treats and even homemade ones, they can't in middle and elementary) and I found comfy Mickey jammies, $68.35.
Soooo need a $0 day today but not so sure, DD's b-day is TOMORROW and I have not gotten so much as a card! I have looked but don't see any that fit her and as far as gifts, I have no ideas at all.
October 12-$0 Finally!!! I did get a few goceries, under $10 worth that could have waited but DH watned french toast so I needed bread and used all the eggs for cupcakes for DD's b-day. BUT I used part of a G/C that I got as a rebate from Stapes at Back to School time and that money was recorded back in August. I could have waited on them, but I was going next to the store for DD8's dance tonight and got a pack of chicken with a hole it in I wanted to take back anyway, so since I had the G/C, I went for it.
ETA- I found out at dance today that I sold another 3 pairs of used shoes so I made another $15 for those!
No Spend Days 4/15
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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!
10-03 - $0.00 
dance because they let me use an expired coupon for $10.00 off!
cool1
that I will crack down. So here I am. 
Hoping we can save $1,000 this month though. Next month I will start fresh with the budget but since I've already been spending it's hard to say what and where the money went to. Unfortunately today will not be a no spend day, already bought lunch and need to get DH a birthday present and dinner tonight. Ugh, now I know why we never save. 
