Get on board! October No Buy thread

[charming23]

Charming, Did you hear that Bon Jovi is doing a one night only concert in the theaters? it is November 8. My DH had told me we had a surprise date a while ago, but at the moves the other day I saw the preview. Funny thing I didn't put it together to know but he said something so now I do, but anyway it is The Circe Tour in the theaters.

Lattemomof3, I know I owe you a PM back, I have been so busy with DD16's b-day and stuff, but M got back from Disney and I have to tell you about it. I will try to write you back tomorrow afternoon. I am going to a corn maze with DD11's class tomorrow so I need to get some sleep. Early morning and busy day.

I did not know that. Thanks I am going to look out for it around here. That would be amazing.

 

[A.Mickey]

Woooowwww eeeeeee! We leave for Disney in less than 7 hours!

Had to roll over lots of Register Rewards and catalina coupons and ECB's, since we will be back in just under 2 weeks, when they all will expire!

Running Total: Spent $221.41
$0 Days:5/10

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)- $84.62
Eating Out ($300)- $70.42
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $66.37

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

Week 3:
Groceries- $0
Eating Out- $88.93
Misc- $36.53

Week 4:
Groceries- $0
Eating Out- $68
Misc- $45

Week 5:
Groceries- $19.83
Eating Out- $68
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
7- $1.92 (Groceries-Jewel)
8- $1.61 (Groceries-Jewel), $6.09 (Groceries-Walgreens)
9- $0
WEEK 3 BEGIN:
10- $24 (Eating Out- Superdawg & Berry Chill), $57.98 (Shopping- Disney Store)
11- $0
12- $8.49 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $5.14 (Meijer-Groceries), $.40 (CVS-Groceries), $6.42 (Jewel-Groceries)
13- $0
14- $2.60 (Eating Out- Taco Bell), $2.73 (Groceries-Meijer), $1.12 (Groceries-CVS), $8.73 (Groceries-Walgreens), $15.01 (Groceries-Jewel)


Budget: $600....37%
Month: 14/31: 45%

My savings from coupons and sales: $616.29

 

[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!), 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 - $0.00
10-08 - $19 & change for lunch (pricey, but I got 3 meals out of it!)
10-09 - $11.52 over budget / groceries (not too bad of an overage!)
10-10 $0.00
10-11 $63.89 oil change. *technically I budgeted for this - not sure if that makes today a "no spend" or not.* dance because they let me use an expired coupon for $10.00 off!
10-12 - $8 & change at the drugstore for OTC meds - dang allergies!
10-13 - $8.39 breakfast, $10.00 breast cancer fundraiser @ work - donation includes lunch!
10-14 - wasn't feeling well again today, so stayed home from work - I was going stircrazy cooped up in the house, so I went out & did a little shopping. I dropped off jewlery to be repaired, (should be about $50.00, ready on Saturday) $2.44 Dunkin Donuts, $14.83 Kohls, $15.89 Marshals, $45.56 Ross, $20.04 Target (OTC medicine and some "ready" food so I didnt have to cook dinner).
10-15 $8.92 breakfast
10-16 $___.__ pick up jewlery



October Goal: 16 no $pend day$
# of no $pend day$: 3
# of no $pend day$ needed to meet goal: 13
I need a LOT more no $pend days this month to meet my goal!!!

 

[fairyprincess1]

10/1 $0
10/2 spend
10/3 spend
10/4 spend
10/5 $0
10/6 spend - put the room deposit down for our Spring break Disney trip
10/7 $0
10/8 $0
10/9 spend - Pumpkin farm & ice cream after soccer for DS
10/10 spend - birthday presents for DS classmate & neice
10/11 $0
10/12 spend - coffee while in the field for work..
10/13 spend - coffee
10/14 $0


I have to say at the halfway point I am doing much better than I thought... Today will be a spend day though, as my son was very upset that there were no bananas or bread for his lunch... Maybe tomorrow will be a no spend day but Sunday we are going to a fundraiser so I am sure we will be spending some cash...

Have a great weekend everyone.

6/10 no spend days...

 

[Virgderon]

Good job FairyPrincess! Hang in there.

Pricelined my room for next weekends Halloween extravaganza at Disney/Universal. I did not get what I wanted, but the room was only $35 a night, so with taxes and fees I got 4 nights for $167. Not bad.

I got paid today and my check was $220 more than I thought it would be, so I am paying $120 toward some bills and putting another $100 toward "fun" money.

Running Total: Spent $624
$1100 budget...$476 left
$0 Days: 5
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 67

Groceries budget- $250-9-12-4-34-27-8-20= 136 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
October 8: 52 (34 groceries, 8 toiletries, 10 parking at free concert)
October 9 : 0
October 10: 92 (79 HHN tix, 13 Walgreens cleaning supplies)
October 11: 0
October 12: 48 (27 groceries, 16 bowling, 5 food at bowling)
October 13: 0
October 14: 51 (43 postage, 8 groceries)
October 15 187 (Priceline room, 20 groceries)

 

[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 / $34 left
Giving $25
Groceries/Household Goods $175 / $120 left
Medical $25 / $9 left
Misc. $100 / $68 left

No spend days goal = 7/7
Coupon savings = $30.55
Christmas 2010 running total of spending = $421
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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
10/7 $0
10/8 $6 Eating out; Drove out to get niece from college for the weekend and felt I should feed her before the drive back but she likes the Arby dollar menu so was a cheap lunch.)
10/9 $0
10/10 $0
10/11 $44 Groceries
10/12 $10 Medical (three month prescription refill)
10/13 $0
10/14 $29 Misc. (haircut; halloween cards; make-up); $5 Christmas.
10/15 $0

Met my no spend goal for the month and am headed off to Disney in the morning for 8 days of fun including four days on the Wonder.

 

[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 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!
October 13- Didn't get off with a $0 today. It was DD's 16th b-day. So, her gift was $70. We got her a tablet for her computer. We could spend a little more cause her party came in under $200 which is what I had planned for. $73 Sam's for groceries and a pair of pants for me. $41.38 gas. $18.96 Walmart groceries. $4 Walgreen's card and a MUCH NEEDED bottle of Mickey mouse pumpkin bubbles. And $6 ice cream.
October 14-$0 Calling it an early day. I have girl scouts at my house tonight and the house looks like we live her tooooo comfortably! I will be cleaning allllll day. Dinner is already in the crock pot so until this evening (dance/scouts) I have nothing to do but clean, clean, clean!!!
October 15- Uggg, it was a no spend day till... I had gone on a field trips with my DD11's class. The high today was supposed to be 50, not sure it ever made it there, and pouring rain. We were at a Corn Maze. I was soaked to the bone, freezing, and just generally miserable. DDD16 was at a party and the younger girls, just before I was trying to get myself to start dinner, asked dad if we could go to Friendly's and wit the chill still not gone and being so beyond tired, having soemone else cook AND do the dishes counded great! So, we blew it. BUT, we all ate and had ice cream and get a sundae cup and a half gallon for $25 with tip. (2 kids eat free coupons and a spend $25 save $5 coupon whcih is why we brought home ice cream, we basically got it for $.50 cause of the coupon.) So not too bad but I did blow what could have been and had been a $0. You know what? It was worth it!
No Spend Days 5/15


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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!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Charming and Lattemom, anyone else who loves Bon Jovi, here is the link for the concert at the theater. It is November 8th at 7:30. Our theater the tickets were $12.50, not sure if that is a set price or if it varies.

http://www.fathomevents.com/concertsandmusic/event/bonjovi_circletour.aspx

Years ago I took DD16 to see 'NSYNC's concert at the theater and it ws really cool, you could see so mcuh that would be impossible to see at the concert even if y ouwere in the front row. I loved seeing them this summer but am excited for this too!

 

[fairyprincess1]

10/1 $0
10/2 spend
10/3 spend
10/4 spend
10/5 $0
10/6 spend - put the room deposit down for our Spring break Disney trip
10/7 $0
10/8 $0
10/9 spend - Pumpkin farm & ice cream after soccer for DS
10/10 spend - birthday presents for DS classmate & neice
10/11 $0
10/12 spend - coffee while in the field for work..
10/13 spend - coffee
10/14 $0
10/15 $0


I ended up talking DS into pizza from the freezer - so ended up with a no spend day after all

7/10 no spend days...

 

[fairyprincess1]

Good job FairyPrincess! Hang in there.

Thanks Virgderon!!!

 

[3goofyboys]

My goal for this month is 15 no buy days.

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!
8: $22 groceries, $28 gas
9: $0
10: $0
11: $0
12: Today was a BIG spend day!! But, I think I've got just about everything I need for our Halloween party and I got groceries for the next 2 weeks. $310 groceries, $30 gas, $5 coffee at school meeting
13: $0 took the boys to the zoo, but it was a free day and we packed a lunch. Thank goodness we did, because the food lines were crazy!
14: $0 It wasn't supposed to be a no buy day. We went to the Haunted Hayride at a local farm and because we were the only people there to do it on a Thursday night, they let us go in for free and just sent a bunch of the employees in with us. It was SO FUN and would have been well worth the $21 we planned on paying!
15: Another big spend day . $32 Target, $2 Parking downtown so DH and I could pick up our race packets, $50 gas, $14 Del Taco on the way back from picking up our packets, $65 huge library fine . Tomorrow will be better!

9/15 no buy days

 

[A.Mickey]

Reporting in from Disney!

Running Total: Spent $235.67
$0 Days:5/10

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)- $84.62
Eating Out ($300)- $84.68
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $66.37

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

Week 3:
Groceries- $0
Eating Out- $74.67
Misc- $36.53

Week 4:
Groceries- $0
Eating Out- $68
Misc- $45

Week 5:
Groceries- $19.83
Eating Out- $68
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
7- $1.92 (Groceries-Jewel)
8- $1.61 (Groceries-Jewel), $6.09 (Groceries-Walgreens)
9- $0
WEEK 3 BEGIN:
10- $24 (Eating Out- Superdawg & Berry Chill), $57.98 (Shopping- Disney Store)
11- $0
12- $8.49 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $5.14 (Meijer-Groceries), $.40 (CVS-Groceries), $6.42 (Jewel-Groceries)
13- $0
14- $2.60 (Eating Out- Taco Bell), $2.73 (Groceries-Meijer), $1.12 (Groceries-CVS), $8.73 (Groceries-Walgreens), $15.01 (Groceries-Jewel)
15- $14.26 (Eating Out- McDonald's), Checked into OKW ate at Good's to Go for lunch, and Riverside Mill for dinner, used gift cards that I bought last month! Should run out of gift cards eventually on this trip, but I will take the "freeish" food while it lasts.


Budget: $600....39%
Month: 15/31: 48%

My savings from coupons and sales: $665.36

 

[charming23]

I had a blast yesterday in Columbus. We went to the zoo, had dinner out, and did a little shopping where we got a deal on some Ohio State Tees. My Aunt also bought me the "Vampire Diaries" journal I was going to buy myself in Claires.

Today is a no buy as I am too tired to go anywhere and we are having family over for dinner and the OSU game tonight.

Groceries- $200/ $98.21 Left
Household/Pet- $50/ $13.85 Left
Gas/Car- $50
Eating out/Entertainment- $50/$18.63 Left
Misc- $50/$24.49 Left

Total- $400/ $205.28 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- $16.82 at Target
10/9- $0
10/10- $8.59 Walgreens
10/11- $0
10/12- $14.99 Pizza takeout
10/13- $13.99 Grocery store
10/14- $9 for movie tickets

Week Three
10/15- $0
10/16- $0
10/17-
10/18-
10/19-
10/20-
10/21-

8/15 No Buy Days

Coupon and Store Savings-$94.06

 

[A.Mickey]

Reporting in from Disney!

Running Total: Spent $268.78
$0 Days:5/10

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)- $99.62
Eating Out ($300)- $84.68
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $83.37

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

Week 3:
Groceries- $0
Eating Out- $74.67
Misc- $19.53

Week 4:
Groceries- $0
Eating Out- $68
Misc- $45

Week 5:
Groceries- $4.83
Eating Out- $68
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
7- $1.92 (Groceries-Jewel)
8- $1.61 (Groceries-Jewel), $6.09 (Groceries-Walgreens)
9- $0
WEEK 3 BEGIN:
10- $24 (Eating Out- Superdawg & Berry Chill), $57.98 (Shopping- Disney Store)
11- $0
12- $8.49 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $5.14 (Meijer-Groceries), $.40 (CVS-Groceries), $6.42 (Jewel-Groceries)
13- $0
14- $2.60 (Eating Out- Taco Bell), $2.73 (Groceries-Meijer), $1.12 (Groceries-CVS), $8.73 (Groceries-Walgreens), $15.01 (Groceries-Jewel)
15- $14.26 (Eating Out- McDonald's), Checked into OKW ate at Good's to Go for lunch, and Riverside Mill for dinner, used gift cards that I bought last month! Should run out of gift cards eventually on this trip, but I will take the "freeish" food while it lasts.
16- $15 (Groceries-Wal-mart), $17 (Shopping-Wal-mart bought 2 real disney shirts!)


Budget: $600....45%
Month: 16/31: 52%

My savings from coupons and sales: $665.36

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 4/15
Gas : 59$ (max 85$)
Groceries : 113$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 78$ (max 150$)
Non-necessities : 385$ (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)
10/08 : 0$
10/09 : 39$ (movie, dessert and parking)
10/10 : 138$ (cat food/litter, paper shredder, chinese lanterns)
10/11 : 43$ (movie + dinner)
10/12 : 10$ (eating out)
10/13 : 48$ (groceries)
10/14 : 30$ (gas)
10/15 : 3$ (fries)

 

[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!!

No spending days goal - 3/10 On Thursday of this week, I only spent money on groceries, so technically not a "no spend" day, but I didn't spend on extras!

 

[wlake]

10/10: corn maze and other stuff
10/11: groceries, Target, Children's Place, Lands' End (two t-shirts for DS for next summer for $8.40!!!), gas, Lands' End online when I got home -- yikes!!
10/12:
10/13: $50 at Lands' End -- jeans for DS were on the sale I've been waiting for (worth the extra $ for one pair of them as they'll still be in great shape for my younger DS!) and a pair of clogs for me -- hopefully my feet won't hurt so much at the end of a work day.
10/14:
10/15:

no buy days: 3/6
dinners out: 0/3

Today (Saturday) is going to be one expensive day! I'm getting paint for DS's room as well as ordering a couple of things for my classroom that I've been putting off and more shirts for DS, too. Plus, I may have to run through the grocery store and pick up a couple of things to bake something to take to a party tomorrow. Oh well. I'll try for a no buy day tomorrow, but Monday, someone from this family needs to go to the post office!

 

[3goofyboys]

My goal for this month is 15 no buy days.

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!
8: $22 groceries, $28 gas
9: $0
10: $0
11: $0
12: Today was a BIG spend day!! But, I think I've got just about everything I need for our Halloween party and I got groceries for the next 2 weeks. $310 groceries, $30 gas, $5 coffee at school meeting
13: $0 took the boys to the zoo, but it was a free day and we packed a lunch. Thank goodness we did, because the food lines were crazy!
14: $0 It wasn't supposed to be a no buy day. We went to the Haunted Hayride at a local farm and because we were the only people there to do it on a Thursday night, they let us go in for free and just sent a bunch of the employees in with us. It was SO FUN and would have been well worth the $21 we planned on paying!
15: Another big spend day . $32 Target, $2 Parking downtown so DH and I could pick up our race packets, $50 gas, $14 Del Taco on the way back from picking up our packets, $65 huge library fine . Tomorrow will be better!
16: $0



10/15 no buy days

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

3goofyboys, your library fine made me for you! I had no idea they could be so high. I think ours are $.25 a day. I remember when they were a nickel.

 

[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 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!
October 13- Didn't get off with a $0 today. It was DD's 16th b-day. So, her gift was $70. We got her a tablet for her computer. We could spend a little more cause her party came in under $200 which is what I had planned for. $73 Sam's for groceries and a pair of pants for me. $41.38 gas. $18.96 Walmart groceries. $4 Walgreen's card and a MUCH NEEDED bottle of Mickey mouse pumpkin bubbles. And $6 ice cream.
October 14-$0 Calling it an early day. I have girl scouts at my house tonight and the house looks like we live her tooooo comfortably! I will be cleaning allllll day. Dinner is already in the crock pot so until this evening (dance/scouts) I have nothing to do but clean, clean, clean!!!
October 15- Uggg, it was a no spend day till... I had gone on a field trips with my DD11's class. The high today was supposed to be 50, not sure it ever made it there, and pouring rain. We were at a Corn Maze. I was soaked to the bone, freezing, and just generally miserable. DDD16 was at a party and the younger girls, just before I was trying to get myself to start dinner, asked dad if we could go to Friendly's and wit the chill still not gone and being so beyond tired, having soemone else cook AND do the dishes counded great! So, we blew it. BUT, we all ate and had ice cream and get a sundae cup and a half gallon for $25 with tip. (2 kids eat free coupons and a spend $25 save $5 coupon whcih is why we brought home ice cream, we basically got it for $.50 cause of the coupon.) So not too bad but I did blow what could have been and had been a $0. You know what? It was worth it!
October 16-$0 I got a lot done today but it hasn't been the best day. I am calling it now so I am motivated to make dinner and not grab a pizza. I want to call it a day, throw my jammies on and crawl into bed but I have to pick up DD8 at a party at 7 first. So I am going to force myself to make DD11 and DD16 dinner and then after I get DD8 reward myself with some warm jammies and hopefully a good movie on TV.
No Spend Days 6/15


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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!