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

[charming23]

It has been going pretty good this month. Almost to my goal


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
1/22 $20.94 Drugmart, $43.77 Target, and $4.89 Chick fil a
1/23 $0

 

[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 - $0
1/22 - $75 Gas
1/23 - $0

Grocery Budget $600 - spent $516.56 so far
Gas Budget - $400 - spent $241.48 so far
Eating Out Budget - $45 - spent $15.16 so far
15 no spend days - 20 is goal

 

[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)
22$0
23$0
24$0

I'm playing catch up, I've gotten lazy about posting. I did buy gas and groceries in there, but they were budgeted trips.

 

[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
24th-$0

16/22 No Buy Days

 

[charming23]

I was going to wait and grocery shop but we have lots of snow and arctic weather coming so I went out today. I did save $52.14 using coupons

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
1/22 $20.94 Drugmart, $43.77 Target, and $4.89 Chick fil a
1/23 $0
1/24 $108.58 Giant Eagle

 

[mom2t]

1 - annual huge sale with DGF at Dillard's $39.17 nightgown, Vera Bradley makeup case, Vera Bradley ID case, Vera Bradley tumbler, 12.42 new shower curtain and stove cleaner, $3.11 Izod dress shorts for DS, Kohls 3 tops got DS 2 Chaps and 1 Nike $22.47
2 - worked packed lunch
3 - off home
4 - off home
5 - picked 4 lunches at Wendy's 9.54, Groceries for help with lunches next week lettuce, cottage cheese, bread 6.12
6- $57 for leather boots on clearance
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
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
22 - groceries 60.57 gas 52.00
23 - no buy
24 - returned purse and used credit and bonus cash to buy my DH 2 shirts no cost
25 - no buy

14/18 no buys

 

[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)
22$0
23$0
24$0
25$0

 

[charming23]

Horrible weather today. I did have to work but I came straight home no stopping.

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
1/22 $20.94 Drugmart, $43.77 Target, and $4.89 Chick fil a
1/23 $0
1/24 $108.58 Giant Eagle
1/25 $0

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

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.
01/21: -0- To cold to go anywhere
01/22: -0- Another cold day.
01/23: $40.00 gas
01/24: $17.00 DD and I got pizza slices for dinner. And just had to add cannolis to the order for dessert
01/25: $57.00 groceries

We are now a Family of 4 adults w/1 dog...
Groceries/Household spending: $176/$250.00
Gas for 1 van: $115/$250
Eat Out: $70/$100
Misc: $10/$200
No Buy Days: 13/15
Coupon savings:$71.00. I'm going to try the envelope system for my coupon savings

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Y'all are doing great!! I have thrown in the towel for January, I'm such a bad hostess! LOL
Every time I turn around people need stuff. Clothes, new shoes, etc. I need to be on board for most of Feb though, because we are headed to WDW at the end of the month for the 1/2 marathon. I do plan to do some shopping at the expo!

I hope everyone finishes strong!

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

Y'all are doing great!! I have thrown in the towel for January, I'm such a bad hostess! LOL
Every time I turn around people need stuff. Clothes, new shoes, etc. I need to be on board for most of Feb though, because we are headed to WDW at the end of the month for the 1/2 marathon. I do plan to do some shopping at the expo!

I hope everyone finishes strong!

It happens, especially with growing kids! I'm not even going to try next month, I already know it's going to be a "spend" month, but I'm going to try to keep it in budget.

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)
22$0
23$0
24$0
25$0
26$0

 

[charming23]

I ordered some stuff from amazon, a dear friend of mine wrote and illustrated a book so I ordered a few copies plus some items that had been in my cart. Then I ran to the grocery. A friend is staying with us while they fix her heat.

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
1/22 $20.94 Drugmart, $43.77 Target, and $4.89 Chick fil a
1/23 $0
1/24 $108.58 Giant Eagle
1/25 $0
1/26 $40.52 Amazon and $57.57 Heinens

 

[QVCshopper]

I'm planning on participating in February. And I'm going to look for a weight loss thread like this one, because the accountability helps me (even if no one else reads it, just writing it down for myself helps).

PS - Any day I or DH spends any amount of money gets counted as a spend. I only bought groceries (saved 55%) on Saturday, but that's still a spend day for me. I used to track amounts, but this way is much easier for me.

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
1/24 Spend
1/25 Spend
1/26 No-buy #14

No-buy days: 14/15

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

It happens, especially with growing kids! I'm not even going to try next month, I already know it's going to be a "spend" month, but I'm going to try to keep it in budget.

If DS13 doesn't stop growing, I'm putting him in a box, I've bought school uniforms 3 times already this year. I told him he can't grow again until we go to summer uniform. And DD just informed me that her sneakers are to small, no wonder she won't wear them!
And DS17 needed new trainers for track, he's putting 400+ miles on a pair of shoes every 3 months. That boy needs a job! LOL

I'm planning on participating in February. And I'm going to look for a weight loss thread like this one, because the accountability helps me (even if no one else reads it, just writing it down for myself helps).

Come visit us here on the WISH boards. We have a monthly challenge for weight loss. Great, supportive group of people, I love them!

http://disboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=59

 

[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 - $0
1/22 - $75 Gas
1/23 - $0
1/24 - $0
1/25 - $76.92 groceries, $37.61 petsmart, $31.72 Target

I do not plan to spend any money the rest of the week so I should be able to make all of my goals for Jan.

Grocery Budget $600 - spent $593.48 so far
Gas Budget - $400 - spent $241.48 so far
Eating Out Budget - $45 - spent $15.16 so far
16 no spend days - 20 is goal

 

[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
24th-$0
25th-$52 Chinese Take Out (We were expecting family from out of town to arrive around 7 pm but they left earlier to get ahead of the weather and we had to scramble to feed them)
26th-$0
27th-$0

18/22 No Buy Days

No plans to shop until Friday so I may only be one day short of my goal!

 

[QVCshopper]

Just wrapping up this month because we're not going anywhere tomorrow--well, maybe we will walk to the library, but that is about it. But I will probably get some groceries on Thursday and most likely spend a little on Friday because we want to get bogo free bagel sandwiches for breakfast.

Met my goal of 15 no-buy days and I'll be back for February as we still want to save for 2 possible trips and put extra money into the IRAs (which we did do earlier this week, but did not max out). And then, of course, I have to do our taxes and hopefully will get a decent refund...

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
1/25 Spend
1/26 Spend
1/27 No-buy #14
1/28 Spend
1/29 No-buy #15
1/30 Spend
1/31 Spend

No-buy days: 15/15

 

[charming23]

Too cold here to do anything but go to work and come home.

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
1/22 $20.94 Drugmart, $43.77 Target, and $4.89 Chick fil a
1/23 $0
1/24 $108.58 Giant Eagle
1/25 $0
1/26 $40.52 Amazon and $57.57 Heinens
1/27 $0
1/28 $0

Made my 15 no buy days goal

 

[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 - $0
1/22 - $75 Gas
1/23 - $0
1/24 - $0
1/25 - $76.92 groceries, $37.61 petsmart, $31.72 Target
1/26 - $0
1/27 - $0
1/28 - $0
1/29 - $0

Yahoo I have met all of my goals for Jan.

Grocery Budget $600 - spent $593.48 so far
Gas Budget - $400 - spent $241.48 so far
Eating Out Budget - $45 - spent $15.16 so far
20 no spend days - 20 is goal

 

[charming23]

Today was the first time this month I had to pay for gas. I had a free tank from giant eagle earlier this month plus a giftcard a few weeks ago. I also got breakfast before work at chick fil a and grabbed some stuff for Sunday at aldi.

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
1/22 $20.94 Drugmart, $43.77 Target, and $4.89 Chick fil a
1/23 $0
1/24 $108.58 Giant Eagle
1/25 $0
1/26 $40.52 Amazon and $57.57 Heinens
1/27 $0
1/28 $0
1/29 $4.89 chick fil a, $20.94 Gas, and $32.17 Aldi

Made my 15 no buy days goal