January no buy

[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 another $68.00 out of the grocery budget.
1/9 $0
1/10 41.00 Gas, 70.00 Groceries, 128.00 dental visit, 6.50 kids report card treat
1/11 $0
1/12
1/13 $30.00 pizza
1/14 $21.00 cheeseburger bobby's, $51.00 TJ MAxx underwear and gloves
$35.00 publix cold medications and beer
1/15 $7.00 Little Ceasar's
1/16 $0

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

The thing about the eating out is that I am never sorry that we stayed in AFTER we eat. It's just tempting when we're all starving and tired. So the earlier I plan the better. Once we're full, whether that be a nice dinner or a peanut butter sandwich, nobody cares where we ate. I try to remember that when everyone is asking for pizza. Once dinner is on the table they are happy to eat whats in front of them.
I worked all afternoon on reducing our Universal trip costs. I managed to save 180 on the reservation and was thrilled! 3 or 4 dinners out and I will have blown that savings ..so I am trying to keep that in mind this week.

DITTO! Every penny we spend foolishly I remind the family that is money that is being taken away from our up coming trip to Univeral and the World. That will usually make them rethink the spending.

 

[Virgderon]

$900 budget... $497 left
$0 Days: 3
Groceries : 109
Coupon/ sale savings : 47
Eating out/lunches out : 71

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)
January 9 : 47 ( 45 groceries, 2 breakfast)
January 10: 20 ( 7 lunch, 14 misc Walgreens)
January 11: 98 ( dentist)
January 12: 39 ( 10 parking at hockey game, 14 Wendys, 6 lunch, 9 snacks at hockey game)
January 13: 4 ( 4 soup at work)
January 14: 28 ( 4 tip, 5 groceries, 13 Barnes & Noble , 6 at Old Navy)
January 15: 0
January 16 13 ( 11 Walgreens misc, 2 candy bar & pop at work)

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

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

Groceries/household- $200/60.00 (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/$105.00
Eating Out- $150/130.00
Entertainment/Misc- $200/142.00 (raised due to DD's 2 plays and 2 B'days

Goal of 15/11 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 would 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. Had everything else on hand.
01/08 -0- Going home from work early and staying in for the night.
01/09 -0- No spending and I even got to go out to lunch and dinner today. Took my DFIL to the dr's and we always stop for lunch, his treat. And then when we got home my DMIL suggested we all go to dinner at Olive Garden, their treat as a thank you for all that we do for them. BTW did I mention we gave them $100 GC to Olive Garden for Christmas lol.
01/10 -0-
01/11 -0-
11/12 -0-
01/13 $50 Gas, $27.00 Walmart misc. items to be sent to Afghanistan $27.00 Target 2 movies for a school raffle basket and household.
01/14 $89.00 Costco, 3 Saturday addition of the paper $3.00 (counted toward groceries because I only buy it for the coupons.
01/15 $20.00 It was such a lazy day we order out for pizza. Never left the house/never even got dressed!
01/14-0-

 

[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 = $50.00
01/10/12 = $00.00 5/10
01/11/12 = $24.33
01/12/12 = $00.00 6/10
01/13/12 = $00.00 7/10
01/14/12 = $12.50
01/15/12 = $00.00 8/10 SO CLOSE! I can't believe it!
01/16/12 = $00.00 9/10
01/17/12 =
01/18/12 =

Good news! The pathology report said it was benign. Even better news! I didn't have to pay another co-pay at the Dr. office. Reeally needing to go to the store. There's really nothing in there to make meals with anymore... Two packs of hamburger, but I'm unsure what to do with it. I'll try to come up with something.

 

[charming23]

Today I did my very first "extreme" couponing trip to Walgreen's. A good friend of mine took me and showed me how to take advantage of the sales/coupons/register rewards. My total before all the discounts for everything I bought should have been $88, I paid $22 out of pocket . I got tons of stuff. The Aleeve, razors, and alka-selters were my biggest deals.

I then stopped a few other places. This month has been spendy but I am restocking up on 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
1/10- $63.09 Target, $3.49 Caribou coffee, and $17.15 Takeout
1/11- $30 Aveda Brown (haircuts)
1/12- $24.89 Gas, $62.36 Aldis, and $46.14 Giant Eagle
1/13- $0
1/14- $0
1/15- $33.90 Walgreen's
1/16- $21.35 Walgreen's, $17.95 Target, $11.36 Giant Eagle, $4.90 Chick-fil-A, and $9.48 GFS

8/15 No Buy days

 

[pigletto]

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
1/9 $29.70 Gas. 5.00 milk.
1/10 $0
1/11 $0
1/12 $3.32 bread (ack!)
1/13 $109 stock up at big biannual grocery store sale. $20 take out for dinner, 50.00 Gas.
1/14 $65.00 Walmart Grocery Items, $26.00 Grocery Store,$77.00 New Mac Cord
1/15 $0
1/16 $0
1/17 $20 Take out pizzas and coffees. Ugh.
1/18 $0
1/19 $0


Totals 343.60/500 groceries
95.00/120 entertainment (includes new cord for Mac that cat chewed!)
45.70/$80 eating out

8/14 No Buy days

I better step it up. Not many days left in the month and I have 7 No Buy Days left to go! This is a little harder than I initially anticipated!

 

[neatokimmo]

I am behind!

Saturday was a bust sort of. I have to get the exact numbers. I spent almost $30 on clothes at a consignment store. I spent almost $20 at target for house stuff. I also paid $9.50 for lunch.

Sunday, I spent about $3 on groceries.

Today I spent $30 something on groceries. I got enough stuff to make the rest of our dinners for the month. I will still need milk and fruit next week so I am not going to hit my goal. We also ate breakfast for $3.28.

I will update with real numbers when I can

1-13 $0
1-12 $0
1-11 $0
1-10 $18.93
1-9 $0
1-8 $33.41
1-7 $3.29
1-6 $0
1-5 $0
1-4 $2.17
1-3 $80.28
1-2 $0
1-1 $54.83
$35.76/100 Groceries
$15.61/50 Natalie's clothes
$62.18/100 My clothes
$0/25 Birthday
$65.20/90 - Household stuff
$40 - Chinese New Year, tickets & DD's dance costume
$18.05/50 - Mad Money

 

[Virgderon]

I know I am not going out the rest of the day, so safely calling this a 0 day.

$900 budget... $497 left
$0 Days: 4
Groceries : 109
Coupon/ sale savings : 47
Eating out/lunches out : 71

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)
January 9 : 47 ( 45 groceries, 2 breakfast)
January 10: 20 ( 7 lunch, 14 misc Walgreens)
January 11: 98 ( dentist)
January 12: 39 ( 10 parking at hockey game, 14 Wendys, 6 lunch, 9 snacks at hockey game)
January 13: 4 ( 4 soup at work)
January 14: 28 ( 4 tip, 5 groceries, 13 Barnes & Noble , 6 at Old Navy)
January 15: 0
January 16 13 ( 11 Walgreens misc, 2 candy bar & pop at work)
January 17 0

 

[wlake]

That is good news PrincessHeather'smom!

1/16: $60 groceries, $60 teacher stuff
1/17:

no buys: 6/10
dinners out: 3/4
non consumables purchased: 4/0

 

[charming23]

Rainy and windy here today so I stayed in.

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
1/10- $63.09 Target, $3.49 Caribou coffee, and $17.15 Takeout
1/11- $30 Aveda Brown (haircuts)
1/12- $24.89 Gas, $62.36 Aldis, and $46.14 Giant Eagle
1/13- $0
1/14- $0
1/15- $33.90 Walgreen's
1/16- $21.35 Walgreen's, $17.95 Target, $11.36 Giant Eagle, $4.90 Chick-fil-A, and $9.48 GFS
1/17- $0

9/15 No Buy days

 

[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 = $50.00
01/10/12 = $00.00 5/10
01/11/12 = $24.33
01/12/12 = $00.00 6/10
01/13/12 = $00.00 7/10
01/14/12 = $12.50
01/15/12 = $00.00 8/10 SO CLOSE! I can't believe it!
01/16/12 = $00.00 9/10
01/17/12 = $00.00 10/10 WhooWhoo!!
01/18/12 =

I cannot believe I met my goal! It wasn't easy though. Everyday I'm thinking I need to run to the store for something. And I'm "window shopping" every evening on-line. But I stop myself and ask, "Do I really need this right now?" I'm going to keep going and see exactly how many No Buy days I can get this month.

 

[wishesuponastar]

Congrats on the good news PrincessHeather's mom

 

[4GoofyCrew]

Great thread! I've done this kind of thing in the past (I've called it things like a 'Buying Diet' or a 'Clothes Diet') but never realized that other people did it too!

Way to go everyone!!!

 

[beaucoup]

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
1/9 $11.50 carwash; $7 Card Club
1/10 $0
1/11 $0
1/12 $0
1/13 $0
1/14 $82 OfficeMax (saved over $20 with a 20% coupon and got free shipping)
1/15 $0
1/16 $12 Michael's Craft Store; $42 candy store (yikes). Both for military homecoming.
1/17 $0

 

[hsmamato2]

1/13-$0 -gym class & went to dinner at sisters house-made a salad from the fridge

1/14- $32-bought 30 lb. bag specialty dog food for allergic mutt
plus $4.00- on Redbox, a game and a movie for the whole fam.
1/15- $0-not feeling well,sat on couch watching tv...
1/16- $9.50 @ goodwill (cool new fruitbowl,etc)
1/17- $139.00- Groceries for week (under 150.00 budget woohoo!)

Thanks to all of you here for the support...I had no idea I was going to need it so much!
BTW, how do you find your own msgs. here? having a hard time keeping track....

 

[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 another $68.00 out of the grocery budget.
1/9 $0
1/10 41.00 Gas, 70.00 Groceries, 128.00 dental visit, 6.50 kids report card treat
1/11 $0
1/12
1/13 $30.00 pizza
1/14 $21.00 cheeseburger bobby's, $51.00 TJ MAxx underwear and gloves
$35.00 publix cold medications and beer
1/15 $7.00 Little Ceasar's
1/16 $0
1/17 Publix $158.00, Gas $51.00, Chick Fil A $22.00
1/18 Oil change and tire rotation $46.00, Hair cut $29.00, Dry cleaners $9.00

No Buys 4/20
Groceries $508.00/$525.00
Eating Out $175.00/$150.00

Well this is certainly harder than I thought it would be. On my groceries I include all paper products shampoo etc. So I think I underestimated for sure. Eating out, had a curveball because we took inlaws to dinner for birthday and that was $94.00

 

[Doodlebug939]

I havent been posting online as much as I should but I have been pretty successful for my first month of "No Buy".

I have had 5 days of successful "No buying" I think, if I remember my goal was 10 days. I think I can, I think I can.......

But on a good note even when I am on a buying day when I go to the store I tend to buy less so it is making a change everyday!

 

[charming23]

It went from almost 60 degrees here yesterday to 20 degrees and snow today. Suffice to say I stayed in and worked on job applications.

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
1/10- $63.09 Target, $3.49 Caribou coffee, and $17.15 Takeout
1/11- $30 Aveda Brown (haircuts)
1/12- $24.89 Gas, $62.36 Aldis, and $46.14 Giant Eagle
1/13- $0
1/14- $0
1/15- $33.90 Walgreen's
1/16- $21.35 Walgreen's, $17.95 Target, $11.36 Giant Eagle, $4.90 Chick-fil-A, and $9.48 GFS
1/17- $0
1/18- $0

10/15 No Buy days

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

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

Groceries/household- $200/60.00 (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/$105.00
Eating Out- $150/106.00
Entertainment/Misc- $200/142.00 (raised due to DD's 2 plays and 2 B'days

Goal of 15/12 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 would 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. Had everything else on hand.
01/08 -0- Going home from work early and staying in for the night.
01/09 -0- No spending and I even got to go out to lunch and dinner today. Took my DFIL to the dr's and we always stop for lunch, his treat. And then when we got home my DMIL suggested we all go to dinner at Olive Garden, their treat as a thank you for all that we do for them. BTW did I mention we gave them $100 GC to Olive Garden for Christmas lol.
01/10 -0-
01/11 -0-
11/12 -0-
01/13 $50 Gas, $27.00 Walmart misc. items to be sent to Afghanistan $27.00 Target 2 movies for a school raffle basket and household.
01/14 $89.00 Costco, 3 Saturday addition of the paper $3.00 (counted toward groceries because I only buy it for the coupons.
01/15 $20.00 It was such a lazy day we order out for pizza. Never left the house/never even got dressed!
01/16-0-
01/17 $24.00 w/tip Took my DNephew out to lunch after his dr.s appt.
01/18 -0- Still doing well with bringing my breakfast and lunch to work. My DH still swears that BK is going to fold with out me there twice a day!. lol