January No Buy - let's start the year off right

[mrsbornkuntry]

January:
1$0
2$0
3$4.50 (post office), $8.25 (walmart groceries $1.25 candy)
4$0
5$10 gas
6$42 (gas), $23 (groceries $1.80 mt. Dew), $6.15 (post office)
7$0
8$4.00 (basketball shorts)
9$10.00 (eye doctor copay)
10$0
11$1.28 (redbox for kid's sleepover)
12$0
13$0
14$6.50 (groceries, .89 candy bar, 1.00 water for ds)
15$15 (5ft. buffet table on facebook page)
16$4.20
17$1.80 Mt. Dew

 

[QVCshopper]

Sunday was a no-buy day after all!

1/1 spend
1/2 spend
1/3 No-buy #1
1/4 spend
1/5 No-buy #2
1/6 spend
1/7 No-buy #3
1/8 spend
1/9 No-buy #4
1/10 No-buy #5
1/11 Spend
1/12 Spend
1/13 No-buy #6
1/14 No-buy #7
1/15 Spend
1/16 Spend
1/17 No-buy #8
1/18 Spend
1/19 No-buy #9

No-buy days: 9/15

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

January:
1$0
2$0
3$4.50 (post office), $8.25 (walmart groceries $1.25 candy)
4$0
5$10 gas
6$42 (gas), $23 (groceries $1.80 mt. Dew), $6.15 (post office)
7$0
8$4.00 (basketball shorts)
9$10.00 (eye doctor copay)
10$0
11$1.28 (redbox for kid's sleepover)
12$0
13$0
14$6.50 (groceries, .89 candy bar, 1.00 water for ds)
15$15 (5ft. buffet table on facebook page)
16$4.20
17$1.80 Mt. Dew
18$0

 

[Therinian]

8: $36 (groceries)

9: $20 (fuel, groceries)

10: $0 (OMG, I had a no-buy day! It helped that I finished walking my laps at the mall before all the stores opened, and didn't go to Best Buy with my oldest son).

11: $0 (DH and I stayed home, today, to tear out all of the carpeting in our living room, so I didn't have an opportunity to spend!)

12: $41 ($36 for Chinese food, $5 for frozen blueberries & Reddi-Whip)

13: $13 (fuel)

14: $0 (I cooked a nice casserole with chicken and veggie leftovers from the night before, saving us a few bucks)

15: $0 (I transferred $15 out of my savings account to my checking, intending to spend it on fuel, but didn't, since my car's tank wasn't completely empty)

16: $7 (fuel)

17: $24 ... $14 (fuel), $6 (Walmart; thermals for son), $4 (Wendy's; two 2014 free Frostys key tags, and a rootbeer float)

18: $32 (Lowe's; drywall, moulding, and paint) ... We are converting our sitting room into a library!

 

[lauradis]

I started putting a form of No Buy on my refrigerator next to the grocery list.

Seems to work better then Dis board version, just thought I would share.

good luck everyone

 

[Jennia]

18: $0
19: $0
20: $0
21: $108 between post office, Joann's, and Target
22: $0
23: $48, needed a new heater >_<
24: $70, birthday presents for parents and raincoats for both girls
25: $0
26: $160, groceries
27: $57 post office, payment for toddler art class, gas
28: $0
29: $0
30: $25 clothes
31: $152 groceries and pet supplies

 

[charming23]

Playing catch up

1/1 $0 I went to work and came home
1/2 $0 Stayed home sick from work
1/3 $53.00 Giant Eagle & $4.09 McDonald's
1/4 $0
1/5 $20.41 CVS
1/6 $0
1/7 $28.85 Giant Eagle
1/8 $83.14 Target
1/9 $3.49 McDonald's, $37.77 Kmart, $45.55 Trader Joe's, & $74.44 Marc's
1/10 $0
1/11 $0
1/12 $20 laundry, $6.75 Mr. Hero, and $28.27 Target
1/13 $70.91 Heinens
1/14 $0
1/15 $0
1/16 $9.45 chick fil a, $56.20 target, and $66.56 walmart
1/17 $0
1/18 $0
1/19 $52.10 aldi

 

[stayhomemom77]

1st-$0
2nd-$0
3rd-$77.75 groceries, $29 gas
4th-$0
5th-$0
6th -$0
7th-$3.50/$20 misc cash
8th-$34.32 groceries, $5.75/$16.50 misc cash, ($34.73 by DH)
9th-$0
10th-$82 on groceries, $40 on gas
11th-$10 tip for our lunch out (lunch covered by Christmas gift cards)
12th-$0 (I never shop on Sundays so I'm adding this in now)
13th-$0 DH has the car for the day so I couldn't spend if I wanted to!
14th-$0 DD home with the flu. No errands for this mama!!
15th-$85 in groceries
16th-$0
17th-$0
18th-$0
19th-bought a new snow shovel, a microwave for DH's office, went out to dinner as a family using a gift card and paying the difference, took the kids to the fun zone, bought ice cream (approx spending $150)
20th-$0

13/22 No Buy Days


I don't think I'm going to make it to 22 days this month, but I should make it to 20. I'm good with that!

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

Wow am I sooo behind here.
01/01: -0-
01/02: $25.00 take out wings. (tradition on a snow storm night)
01/03: -0- I had every intentions on spending at the grocery store after work. Did all my shopping in record time.... Went to cash out only to find out I forgot my wallet at home today. lol That's one way of having a no buy day!
01/04:-0-
01/05: $6.00 on 6 newspapers. (coming out of grocery $)
01/06: -0-
01/07: $25.00 on gas.
01/08: $22.00 groceries
01/09: -0-
01/10: -0-
01/11: Today was a spend day. $50 gas, $85.00 grocery store and Costcos, $3.00 gourmet dinner from Costco's (hot dogs and sodas)
01/12: -0-
01/13: -0-
01/14: -0-
01/15: $10.00 Costco's had to pick up pastry for work.
01/16: -0-
01/17: -0-
01/18: $25.00 out for the night $6.00 newspapers
01/19: -0-
01/20: -0- Calling it now.

We are now a Family of 4 adults w/1 dog...
Groceries/Household spending: $119/$250.00
Gas for 1 van: $75/$250
Eat Out: $53.00/$100
Misc: $10/$200
No Buy Days: 11/15
Coupon savings:$52.00. I'm going to try the envelope system for my coupon savings

 

[QVCshopper]

Calling tomorrow early because it's going to snow... again!

1/1 spend
1/2 spend
1/3 No-buy #1
1/4 spend
1/5 No-buy #2
1/6 spend
1/7 No-buy #3
1/8 spend
1/9 No-buy #4
1/10 No-buy #5
1/11 Spend
1/12 Spend
1/13 No-buy #6
1/14 No-buy #7
1/15 Spend
1/16 Spend
1/17 No-buy #8
1/18 Spend
1/19 No-buy #9
1/20 Spend
1/21 No-buy #10

No-buy days: 10/15

 

[dtr_angel]

1 $0
2 ordered new shoes for baby (planned purchase)
3 $0
4 groceries, ordered stamps online
5 cvs & newspapers
6 groceries
7 paid for our credit scores online

8 $0
9 $0
10 milk, cat food, and ordered cloth diaper liners for baby
11 $0
12 groceries (just a few perishables), newspapers, and DH surprised me with a Ghiradelli hot chocolate from Sheetz I had been drooling over on the sign when he went in for the newspapers
13 spend day - market & walmart
14 small CVS run, bread & coffee (missed it yesterday ugh), a few things at Lowe's, and dollar tree

15 $0
16 prescription from CVS
17 bought lunch at work
18 $0
19 newspapers
20 groceries (just a few fresh fruits/veggies)
21

no doing so hot on no buy days, but the most important thing is I'm sticking to my budget I need to go to Walmart and the market and pick up some things tomorrow hopefully

No buy days 7/15
I'm not going to track amounts on here for each category (I use YNAB for that) but I am currently under budget

 

[mom2t]

6 - leather boots on clearance $57
7 - free pizza using coupon but $52 for gas
8 - groceries 77.54
9 - no buy
10 - 2.34 treated myself to lunch at McDonalds. I had packed all week and brought my own drink.
11 - no buy staying home all day
5/18 days no buy

Also made out my list of what we need for two vacations 1 4 day weekend trip to Myrtle Beach and 9 days in June to Fl. Starting to pick up non-perishables and items I can freeze. LESS money I have to spend on vacation. I plan to pick up a few items each week on my grocery run.

12 - 12.34 groceries
13 - no buy
14 - no buy
15 - groceries 64.13
16 - no buy
17 - no buy
18 - groceries bought up meat on sale and divided out for 8 meals 27.78 - new bar stools to replace 30+ year old stools at business closing 53.27 saved a ton of money
19 - no buy - sold old bar stools for 20
20 - no buy
21 - no buy staying home again.

12/18 days

 

[Deffenm]

1/1 - $0
1/2 - $8.44 - lunch
1/3 - $0
1/4 - $156 groceries, $66 gas
1/5 - $0
1/6 - $0
1/7 - $0
1/8 - $6.18 groceries, $9.20 Post Office, 20.41 Pet store
1/9 - $0
1/10 - $0
1/11 - $6.25 Home Depot, $165.82 groceries
1/12 -$0
1/13 - $6.72 lunch, $346 Vet, $144 Car repair
1/14 - $0
1/15 - $0
1/16 - $96.85 groceries
1/17 - $0
1/18 - $0
1/19 - $0
1/20 - $71.30
1/21 - need gas today

Grocery Budget $600 - spent $516.56 so far
Gas Budget - $400 - spent $166.40 so far
Eating Out Budget - $45 - spent $14.16 so far
13 no spend days - 20 is goal

 

[dtr_angel]

1 $0
2 ordered new shoes for baby (planned purchase)
3 $0
4 groceries, ordered stamps online
5 cvs & newspapers
6 groceries
7 paid for our credit scores online

8 $0
9 $0
10 milk, cat food, and ordered cloth diaper liners for baby
11 $0
12 groceries (just a few perishables), newspapers, and DH surprised me with a Ghiradelli hot chocolate from Sheetz I had been drooling over on the sign when he went in for the newspapers
13 spend day - market & walmart
14 small CVS run, bread & coffee (missed it yesterday ugh), a few things at Lowe's, and dollar tree

15 $0
16 prescription from CVS
17 bought lunch at work
18 $0
19 newspapers
20 groceries (just a few fresh fruits/veggies)
21 groceries (just a few things that I got really good deals on this week on sale/with coupons)

22
23
24
25
26
27
28


no doing so hot on no buy days, but the most important thing is I'm sticking to my budget I need to go to Walmart and the market and pick up some things tomorrow hopefully

No buy days 7/15
I'm not going to track amounts on here for each category (I use YNAB for that) but I am currently under budget

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

January:
1$0
2$0
3$4.50 (post office), $8.25 (walmart groceries $1.25 candy)
4$0
5$10 gas
6$42 (gas), $23 (groceries $1.80 mt. Dew), $6.15 (post office)
7$0
8$4.00 (basketball shorts)
9$10.00 (eye doctor copay)
10$0
11$1.28 (redbox for kid's sleepover)
12$0
13$0
14$6.50 (groceries, .89 candy bar, 1.00 water for ds)
15$15 (5ft. buffet table on facebook page)
16$4.20
17$1.80 Mt. Dew
18$0
19$0
20$0
21$3.00 (groceries)

I had DD run to the store to pick up the cheese I needed to go with dinner so I wouldn't spend any extra. It worked

 

[QVCshopper]

Calling tomorrow early. Another snow day... the one good thing about this weather is we don't go anywhere to spend anything.

1/1 spend
1/2 spend
1/3 No-buy #1
1/4 spend
1/5 No-buy #2
1/6 spend
1/7 No-buy #3
1/8 spend
1/9 No-buy #4
1/10 No-buy #5
1/11 Spend
1/12 Spend
1/13 No-buy #6
1/14 No-buy #7
1/15 Spend
1/16 Spend
1/17 No-buy #8
1/18 Spend
1/19 No-buy #9
1/20 Spend
1/21 No-buy #10
1/22 No-buy #11

No-buy days: 11/15

 

[charming23]

1/1 $0 I went to work and came home
1/2 $0 Stayed home sick from work
1/3 $53.00 Giant Eagle & $4.09 McDonald's
1/4 $0
1/5 $20.41 CVS
1/6 $0
1/7 $28.85 Giant Eagle
1/8 $83.14 Target
1/9 $3.49 McDonald's, $37.77 Kmart, $45.55 Trader Joe's, & $74.44 Marc's
1/10 $0
1/11 $0
1/12 $20 laundry, $6.75 Mr. Hero, and $28.27 Target
1/13 $70.91 Heinens
1/14 $0
1/15 $0
1/16 $9.45 chick fil a, $56.20 target, and $66.56 walmart
1/17 $0
1/18 $0
1/19 $52.10 aldi
1/20 $0
1/21 $0

 

[stayhomemom77]

1st-$0
2nd-$0
3rd-$77.75 groceries, $29 gas
4th-$0
5th-$0
6th -$0
7th-$3.50/$20 misc cash
8th-$34.32 groceries, $5.75/$16.50 misc cash, ($34.73 by DH)
9th-$0
10th-$82 on groceries, $40 on gas
11th-$10 tip for our lunch out (lunch covered by Christmas gift cards)
12th-$0 (I never shop on Sundays so I'm adding this in now)
13th-$0 DH has the car for the day so I couldn't spend if I wanted to!
14th-$0 DD home with the flu. No errands for this mama!!
15th-$85 in groceries
16th-$0
17th-$0
18th-$0
19th-bought a new snow shovel, a microwave for DH's office, went out to dinner as a family using a gift card and paying the difference, took the kids to the fun zone, bought ice cream (approx spending $150)
20th-$0
21st-$67 groceries, $43 on shoes, $2.24 on cookies, $1.67 for cereal bowls for hubby
22nd-$0

14/22 No Buy Days

I have officially run out of money! I have $45 left in the account for gas but the food budget is spent and the cash in my wallet will JUST cover the kids' allowance. I will have a grand total of $3.28 left in my account once all the bills clear. Payday is the 30th, so I have to make it for basically one more week with no expenses but a fill up.

I have a feeling we will run out of milk before then and the fresh produce may disappear before then, but otherwise we should be fine. I have a good amount of frozen veggies in the deep freeze but I may have to rob my vacation change jar to get milk. It will be nice to post a bunch of zeros here though!

 

[QVCshopper]

I've decided that if it always snowed and was zero degrees outside, I'd never spend anything or go anywhere. What a winter!

1/1 spend
1/2 spend
1/3 No-buy #1
1/4 spend
1/5 No-buy #2
1/6 spend
1/7 No-buy #3
1/8 spend
1/9 No-buy #4
1/10 No-buy #5
1/11 Spend
1/12 Spend
1/13 No-buy #6
1/14 No-buy #7
1/15 Spend
1/16 Spend
1/17 No-buy #8
1/18 Spend
1/19 No-buy #9
1/20 Spend
1/21 No-buy #10
1/22 No-buy #11
1/23 No-buy #12
1/24 No-buy #13

No-buy days: 13/15

 

[stayhomemom77]

1st-$0
2nd-$0
3rd-$77.75 groceries, $29 gas
4th-$0
5th-$0
6th -$0
7th-$3.50/$20 misc cash
8th-$34.32 groceries, $5.75/$16.50 misc cash, ($34.73 by DH)
9th-$0
10th-$82 on groceries, $40 on gas
11th-$10 tip for our lunch out (lunch covered by Christmas gift cards)
12th-$0 (I never shop on Sundays so I'm adding this in now)
13th-$0 DH has the car for the day so I couldn't spend if I wanted to!
14th-$0 DD home with the flu. No errands for this mama!!
15th-$85 in groceries
16th-$0
17th-$0
18th-$0
19th-bought a new snow shovel, a microwave for DH's office, went out to dinner as a family using a gift card and paying the difference, took the kids to the fun zone, bought ice cream (approx spending $150)
20th-$0
21st-$67 groceries, $43 on shoes, $2.24 on cookies, $1.67 for cereal bowls for hubby
22nd-$0
23rd-$0

15/22 No Buy Days