January no buy

[willowsnn3]

1/1 = 40 groceries & 11 @ taco bell
1/2 = 30 gas
1/3 = 0
1/4 = 0
1/5 = 36.01 gas
1/6 = 9.61 bkfst & lunch
1/7 = 7.52 lunch

two zero days for first week

 

[mom4graceandlogan]

/1 $0
1/2 groceries 112.00
1/3 walmart 59.00 of which $20.00 was groceries
1/4 $0
1/5 big spend day $30.00 Dr. copay, 12.99 amazon for a new vacuum filter, $20.00 pull ups. I am not out but had a good coupon about to expire so I now have enough for month at least. $53.00 groceries. $6.00 lunch Jersey Mike's, $2.00 breakfast bar and drink
1/6 40.00 gas
1/7 took inlaws for lunch for father in laws 82nd birthday $94.00, lowe's $20.00 concrete sealer, petsmart $23.00, lunch will blow our eating out budget but well worth it as inlaws are letting us live for free in their lake house while we buy a house.

2/20 no buy
$185.00/$525.00 groceries
$102.00 of $150.00 eating out

 

[wlake]

I'm having a hard time getting no buys this month! Today we got groceries and tomorrow my team is ordering lunch. We only get to do that about every 6 to 8 weeks, and I hate packing my lunch each day, so this is not worth skipping!

1/8: groceries

no buy days: 2/10
dinners out: 1/4
non consumables purchased: 4/0

 

[PrincessHeather'sMom]

01/01/12 = $60.08
01/02/12 = $00.00 1/10
01/03/12 = $00.00 2/10
01/04/12 = $29.86
01/05/12 = $00.00 3/10
01/06/12 = $36.01
01/07/12 = $151.14
01/08/12 = $00.00 4/10
01/09/12 = ?

Just holding the couch down today! I do have outpatient surgery scheduled tomorrow morning, however, and I'm not sure if I pay another co-pay when I arrive or not? Or if they just send me that awful bill later.

 

[pigletto]

Well, the week is over though I didn't technically start this budget until Tuesday. 2 No Buy days this week!! Not bad. Everyone goes back to school tomorrow and husband starts his new job (paid co-op placement for his degree program!). I will miss the holiday season very much, but will NOT miss all the spending that's associated with it. I predict this can be a very frugal and laid back month if I stick with the plan. This thread is helping immensely!!!


1/3 17.00 at the grocery store for some random items.
8.00 for the movies. Dh and ds had passes but needed to upgrade to 3D tickets.
155.00 for a utility bill.
22.00 for garbage tags and a few random things at corner store.
(Total of 202.00)

1/4 - $0 Staying in most of the day, taking the kids to the free skating at the arena.

1/5 - 101.19 What was supposed to be a no buy day turned into grocery day. Was going to go Saturday.

1/6 - 17.14 Sending dh when the store opens to pick up some loss leaders. The new flyer starts in the morning and these are items we use
regularly.

1/7 - 7.29 Make up from drug store ( had a 4 dollar off coupon)
6.16 Perscription
5.70 at McDonalds for lunch.

1/8 $0 Calling a No Buy now. Have no plans to go out and don't need anything.
1/9 $14.40 misc.
1/10 Calling a No Buy now. Beavers in the evening but nothing else planned.



Totals 135.33/450 groceries
8.00/120 entertainment
5.70/$80 eating out

2/14 No Buy days

 

[Virgderon]

Soooo close today. We went to a bicycle race and I just couldn't hold out- got hungry!
I can't starve for the cause ....

$900 budget... $746 left
$0 Days: 1
Groceries : 59
Coupon/ sale savings : 21
Eating out/lunches out : 23

January 1: 37 (groceries)
January 2: 0
January 3 : 22 ( 11 groceries, misc)
January 4: 12 ( Walgreens- not even sure what I bought)
January 5: 24 ( co-pay anitibiotic, pain meds)
January 6: 53 ( 25 gas, 11 pop, 17 chinese take-out)
January 7: 0
January 8 : 6 ( lunch at bike race)

 

[Heva2015]

1/8 12.87 - groceries
10.04 - gas

 

[rszdtrvl]

Trying to catch up here :

Goals : 10 No Buy Days ; Grocery Budget $100/week

Jan 1 - $12.54 @ grocery store
$10.10 at grocery store

Jan 2 - $0.00 YAY!! 1/10

Jan 3 - $125 to pay for one night at hotel for my parents Anniversary
$100 for groceries Jan 3 - Jan 9
***** Spent $52.95 on groceries / $47.05 remaining until Jan 10th *****

Jan 4 - $0.00 YAY! 2/10

Jan 5 - Groceries $26.58 / $20.47 remaining until Jan 10th (this is not looking good..... )

Jan 6 - $0.00 YAY 3/10

Jan 7 - $0.00 YAY 4/10

Jan 8 - $19.01 at Walmart for groceries. Still have around $1.50 left for tomorrow - Tuesday the new week starts for our groceries.

Considering I am supposed to do 10 no-buy days, I think I am doing great. I may be able to do even more!

 

[charming23]

I spent the day at home today doing some cleaning up around the house.

12/30- $ 59.09 Aldi's, $17.98 GFS, $18.23 Giant Eagle, $10 GE Pharmacy, $19.87 Loco Leprechaun (dinner), and $10.71 BP (Gas)
12/31- $0
1/1- $0
1/2- $20.25 CVS, $9.34 Walgreen's, and $26.52 Marc's
1/3- $0
1/4- $0
1/5- $2.98 McDonald's and $40.45 Giant Eagle
1/6- $0
1/7- $7.46 Walgreen’s, $8.99 GFS, $1.19 CVS, and $5.94 Save a Lot
1/8- $0

6/15 No Buy days

 

[kinntj]

1/1 $0
1/2 $44.39 Meijer for school lunches/snacks, dinner tonight, and milk
1/3 $0
1/4 $101.51 Meijer (groceries this week under $150!! YAY)
1/5 $0
1/6 $50.00 gas
1/7 $5.76 Michaels, $48.10 Walmart (crafts and groceries), $0 pizza
1/8 $0

Had a headache that wouldn't go away today, so will grocery shop tomorrow. I do have a partial menu to go off of.

 

[beaucoup]

Homecoming briefing over an hour away from home today, so I had to stop to grab something to eat on the way. $4.47


1/1 $50 Pet watering dish and filters. Amazon.com
1/2 $49 Turbo Tax software; $7 Card club
1/3 $0
1/4 $9 Chinese takeout
1/5 $20 chiropractor deductible
1/6 $0
1/7 $0
1/8 $4.47 McDonald's

 

[Laurawill]

Progress so far.
3/10 no spending
1/10 less than $10

Jan 1 $0
Jan 2 $20 ($3 for husband's BP meds, 14 for groceries, and 3 for goggles so I can swim at the gym my husband's work gave us a membership to for Christmas)
Jan 3 $9 on DH lunch out. And that was a nice thought... I tried to tell DH it would be fun to see how many days we could go without buying anything... He said he would do it to save $$ but it won't be fun. Anyhow, he requested I pick up some lunchmeat from the grocery store so he could make his lunch, I got that plus milk and some chicken I needed and took our total spending for the day up to $30...
Jan 4 It is 1:45 and I think it will be a no spend day for us. DH is using a living social coupon he got for Christmas for lunch (which only makes me slightly upset that he made me go to the store last night for lunch meat) and dinner is already planned and we have all the ingredients on hand.
January 5 $40, A friend's mother passed away. So I decided to bring her some foods for their family who was coming into town to stay with them. I spent $35 on lunchmeats and cheeses. And I baked rolls, chocolate chip cookies, and scones.
January 6 $6 on Target clearance, 2 pairs of pants and a pair of sandals for my dd, and $3.60 for dinner out with a gift card we received for a gift
January 7 Big grocery shop, spent $60, got many pantry staples we were out of, and received a coupon for $10 off my next grocery trip. Also went to the hardware store for a few things I needed for a church project (reimbursable), and also picked up a new GFI outlet because we blew one out last week, and then decided to get a CO detector, I did get a 10% off purchase coupon that I used ($45 spent at hardware store)
January 8 $0

I am kind of excited for tomorrow. I have to go get milk, but will probably use that $10 coupon I got from Saturday. And I also get to go to Target and buy Disney gift cards. I have a 5% off coupon that I will use in addition to my Target debit card. Hoping to get quite a few!

 

[goodmorningbelle]

Here are my totals for the week:

1/1--Meijer--$12.14, Walgreens--$.79, and Dollar Tree--$2.14--this was most of my grocery shopping for the week, so pretty good!
1/2--$0
1/3--$0
1/4--$0
1/5--$10.19 for lunch with coworkers
1/6--$1.87 at Walgreens
1/7--$8 for pizza with friends

3 no buy days this week--pretty good!

 

[mom4graceandlogan]

/1 $0
1/2 groceries 112.00
1/3 walmart 59.00 of which $20.00 was groceries
1/4 $0
1/5 big spend day $30.00 Dr. copay, 12.99 amazon for a new vacuum filter, $20.00 pull ups. I am not out but had a good coupon about to expire so I now have enough for month at least. $53.00 groceries. $6.00 lunch Jersey Mike's, $2.00 breakfast bar and drink
1/6 40.00 gas
1/7 took inlaws for lunch for father in laws 82nd birthday $94.00, lowe's $20.00 concrete sealer, petsmart $23.00, lunch will blow our eating out budget but well worth it as inlaws are letting us live for free in their lake house while we buy a house.
1/8 was supposed to be a no buy day, but daughter spent night with grandparents in atlanta and when I picked her up I also stopped at Whole Foods(which is an hour drive) to pick up milk and ground beef on sale for $2.69 a pound. Got 7-8 pounds. So I now have spent half grocery budget but have meat for 3 and a half weeks since we only eat meat 4 times a week and I hit publix for a chicken sale last week. so another $68.00 out of the grocery budget. Also saved on milk and juice boxes and some organic fruit at Whole foods, only bought in season deals. I love whole foods and did great on not buying Wants vs. needs. I wanted to spend $20.00 on bread cheese and olives. Also good that I was there on a sunday when the beer and wine section is closed. I love there wine selection but it would have probably added $20.00.
1/9 Determined to be a no buy day. Home for day except for YMCA

2/20 no buy
$253.00/$525.00 groceries
$102.00 of $150.00 eating out

 

[Luvdancink]

1/1 0$
1/2 0$
1/3 $4 for lunch at office and 63 for groceries
1/4 $4 lunch $17 groceries $12 for dinner $30 in scripts at pharmacy
1/5 0$!!!!
1/6 $4 lunch
1/7 0$!!
1/8 0$!!


Survivied the weekend. Ended up at target but didn't buy anything! Need gas and a few things today but determined to stick to a list

 

[annsteere]

Goals: NO unnecessary spending, NO meals out, NO purchased entertainment other than redbox rentals from allowance. Keep groceries as low as possible.

DH and I took turns being sick so we spent on meds and kleenix. Car with needed a repair. Toilet paper holder broke and was replaced. All these are "necessary" in my book.

Spent $53 on groceries first week.

Only one unnecessary spend so far: a Santa Suit sleeper at Target at 90% off: $2.

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

Here is my goal for January:
Family of 3 with 1 dog. And several drop ins at any given time.

Groceries/household- $200/148.00 (eating out of the freezer this month) But, still need to stock up on a few things like soups. We went thru so much during the freak storm in Oct. Lost power for 11 days.
Car/Gas- $200/$155.00Eating Out- $150/Left (forgot DSIS B'day dinner)
Entertainment/Misc- $200/Left(raised due to DD's 2 plays and 2 B'days

Goal of 6/15 No Buy Days

01/01-0-
01/02-0- Calling it now. Brought my breakfast and lunch to work today. Not stopping for breakfast on my way to work 3 mornings is going to be a big deal for me. And going right home from work.[/QUOTE]
01/03-0- Spent the day with great friends going over our dinning ressies and what shirts we are planning on making for our up coming April trip to the World. 3 families, with 11 people.
01/04-0- Brought lunch and breakfast to work. My DH said our local BK is going to go banckupt without me. lol
01/05 Calling it now. On Thursdays my work day is 2-7pm.. And by 7 it will be to cold to go anywhere but home. And usually Thursdays is my morning to hit the local stores shopping, Target by my house, and Walmart by my office. And that will lead into buying lunch out at Subway or BK both by the office. Today I stayed home putting Christmas stuff away and continued to reorginize my basement, washed all the bed linens and respace bagged all that we don't use. Seems like Storm Alfred threw our house in a tizzy that we just couldn't recover from. Bed linens were just folded and put every where downstairs. (we had extra guests during the storm. It was one big slumber party).
01/06 Today was a spend day. $45.00 in gas for the van, Target $5.00 (before coupons $16.48). Costco $30.00. Went to potluck dinner at our Disney friends. Got to discuss our trip again!!!! yah us!!
01/07 Costco $17.00 for my Dsis birthday cake.
01/08 -0- Going home from work early and staying in for the night.

 

[willowsnn3]

1/1 = 40 groceries & 11 @ taco bell
1/2 = 30 gas
1/3 = 0
1/4 = 0
1/5 = 36.01 gas
1/6 = 9.61 bkfst & lunch
1/7 = 7.52 lunch
two zero days for first week
1/8 = 0 not feeling well, stayed in all day

 

[charming23]

I went out and ran some errands. I got a great deal on some DVD's at Target, that I had wanted on black friday but did not get the chance to get. They were just as cheap today as they were then.

I also drove thru Arby's for a quick snack and Walgreen's for some coupon items.

12/30- $ 59.09 Aldi's, $17.98 GFS, $18.23 Giant Eagle, $10 GE Pharmacy, $19.87 Loco Leprechaun (dinner), and $10.71 BP (Gas)
12/31- $0
1/1- $0
1/2- $20.25 CVS, $9.34 Walgreen's, and $26.52 Marc's
1/3- $0
1/4- $0
1/5- $2.98 McDonald's and $40.45 Giant Eagle
1/6- $0
1/7- $7.46 Walgreen’s, $8.99 GFS, $1.19 CVS, and $5.94 Save a Lot
1/8- $0
1/9- $2 Arby's, $14.71 Walgreen's, and $33.47 Target

6/15 No Buy days

 

[wlake]

Not going to be my month for no buys, but I'm going to get lunch out again tomorrow!

1/9: $6 lunch

no buys: 2/10
dinners out: 1/4
non consumables purchased: 4/0