July 2011 No Buy Thread - Let the savings sparks fly!

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

I'm back...Last month I spent alot more then I should have. But, still had 16 out of 10 No Buys Days. I can remember only spending $100 a month for groceries not to long ago. OMGish I miss those days! Plus, we did ate out of the freezer a lot

07/01 -0-This should have been an expensive day. We went to the beach and stopped at the casino on the way home. We won enough money to cover all expenses today...And even had a little extra.
07/02 -0-cheer2: Stayed home and did yard work. And swam in the pool -0-
07/03 -0- Another day at home.
07/04 $27.00 groceries. Nice day by the pool with DH, DD and a couple of friends.
07/05 -0- Spent the day on the lake tubing. Used all our left overs from yesterdays mini picnic. What a great way to end our 5 days off. Tomorrow is back to work.
07/06 $50.00 gas
07/07 $52.00 Costco's. Really spent $68.00 but my office will reemberse me for $32.00
07/08 $30.00 Sonic for 4. This was a money saver. We were actually on our way to a local fair when it started storming.
07/09 $25.00 tokens for the local "Taste of Our town". $2.00 for a bottle of water.
07/10 -0-Money maker today..Had an awesome lia party.
07/11 -0-
07/12 $87.00 $57.00 goceries. Stocked up on sale items. $30.00 gas.
07/13
Auto: $80.00/$200
Groceries/Household Goods:$136.00/$200.00
Eating Out/Entertainment: $55.00/$100.00
Misc:/$200
No Buy days 5/10
Coupon savings $58.00

 

[QVCshopper]

7/1-$24 Panera Bread, $30 Walmart, $12 Zwhalens
7/1-$7.50 BK, $5 Wawa, $3 Cider Donuts (yummy!)
7/3-$3 Dollar Tree, $36 Kmart, $17 Weiss
7/4-$11 Snacks/Food, $30 Sneakers for DD
7/5-$37.50 Pizza Hut
7/6-$38 Boathouse
7/7-$20 StrideRite Sneakers for DS, $11 Carters, $11.50 Lunch, $4.50 H&D, $2 Motherhood
7/8-$3.50 CFA
7/9-$7 Farmers Market, $33 Kmart, $60 Wegmans, $30 Petsmart (will get $25 rebate), $5 Gymboree
7/10-$10 Sonic/Pool
7/11-$0
7/12-$3 Wawa, $4 Movies, $16 Staples (will get $6 rebate)
7/13-BK/Pool $9.50
7/14-$19 Wegmans, $13.50 Liberty Thrift

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

My goal is $400 for food and miscellaneous and $75 for gas.

General

1 - $67.01
2 - $0!
3 - $0!
4 - $17.35
5 - $0!
6 - $5.23
7 - $99.32
8 - $0!
9 - $0!
10 - $1.75
11 - $37.00
12 - $0!

$400-$227.66=$172.34
$0 Buy Days: 6

Gas

$75-$0=$75

I am way ahead of pace again for this month. At least I'm doing GREAT so far with the gas budget!

 

[charming23]

I have two good pieces of budget news today.

1. I sent in the last payment for my car this morning

2. I got a call for a job interview friday morning

Plus today is a no buy day so that is always good news as well.

July 2011 Budget

Groceries/Household- $300/$165.33 Left
Cat Supplies- $30/$14.82 left
Car/Gas- $70/$45.43 Left
Eating Out- $50/$29.52 left
Misc/Entertainment- $100/$77.67 Left

Total- $550/$332.77 Left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

7/1- $84.72 Grocery/Household, $15.18 Cat Supplies, and $24.57 Gas
7/2- $0
7/3- $0
7/4- $18.06 Giant Eagle/Groceries
7/5- $0
7/6- $22.33 Target/Misc and $8.06 lunch at Wendy's
7/7- $16.89 Groceries and $9.27 Lunch
7/8- $0
7/9- $0
7/10- $0
7/11- $0
7/12- $3.15 Starbucks and $15 Groceries
7/13- $0
7/14
7/15- Kelley's Island
7/16- Kelley's Island
7/17- Kelley's Island
7/18
7/19
7/20
7/21
7/22
7/23
7/24
7/25
7/26
7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31

8/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/ Store Savings- $20.20

 

[annsteere]

So far, so good.

Groceries: still have $180/300 left to spend.

Non-essential buys have been good spends, not "stupid stuff."
$50 birthday and a graduation gifts
$ 3 slushie for me after 5 days of company
$15 eat out with DH after 8 days of company
$ 5 new bathroom sink (saw it at a garage sale driving home from
grocery shopping-- I've hated ours for about 5 years)


And one, slightly questionable one: new towels. Spent $78 but $56 of that was covered with a gift certificate. They are very high quality and all the company we've enjoyed helped me notice how shabby ours had gotten.

 

[wlake]

I have two good pieces of budget news today.

1. I sent in the last payment for my car this morning

2. I got a call for a job interview friday morning

Plus today is a no buy day so that is always good news as well.

Congratulations and good luck!

 

[Virgderon]

Sorry I have not been commenting. Busy busy! Charming, awesome news and good luck on the job. BigMama, I'll be pulling for you to get a job.

Running Total: Spent $146
$1100 budget... $954 left
$0 Days: 4
Goal is 7 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 13

Groceries budget- $300-7= 293 left
Wedding shower budget - $600 -966= $366 over

July 1: 77 ( 25 to check DDs bag at airport, 17 gas, 35 misc stuff for DD)
July 2: 0
JUly 3: 0
July 4: 69 (26 shoes for my MOTB dress that ended up not matching, 17 Walgreens for pop and laundry detg, 10 gas , 16 movie)
July 5 : 0
July 6- 12 out of town
July 13 : 0

 

[Debbie]

I'm back. The shower was lovely, but the driving idea seems a little dumb now. It did give me lots of time to just think. Sometimes being alone is a good thing.

Welcome home!

I have two good pieces of budget news today.

1. I sent in the last payment for my car this morning

2. I got a call for a job interview friday morning

Plus today is a no buy day so that is always good news as well.

I'd call that THREE good pieces of budget news!

 

[Debbie]

Ahhhhh. Beautiful day today. Three garbage bags out of the classroom!

Unfortunately, this is going to be an expensive month for me.

1. DD will be home (I think) from Egypt for the last week or two.
2. I'm off for the summer, and my sanity is sending DH (SAHD) out to shop
3. Need to get the garage door replaced.
4. House needs repairs: painting, carpet, blinds etc.
5. Changing classrooms means updating some things.
6. I'm going 'over the river' to a Daily Café workshop with "The Sisters"

Oh, well, here's the budget as it stands.

Budget: Actual (last month expenses)
Gas: $600 $185 ($535) Allowing for some vacation driving
Groceries/Household: $600 $306 ($512)
Drug co-pays/medicine/lens: $40 $0 ($75)
Misc including gifts: $500 $229 ( $816 ) Not counting the garage door, or the hotel/expenses for the Daily Café workshop that I'm going to
Pool expenses: $200 $41 ($0)
Dining: $200 $74($81) Upped this for our 'vacation' mode
University incidentals expenses: $250 $120 (N/A)

July 1: $0 (Thank Heaven's for HOLIDAYS!)
July 2: gas $33, groceries $38, market (more groceries!) $15
July 3: gifts $43, household wasp spray/foam stuff $25 (really want to get rid of those suckers!)
July 4: gas $10
July 5: gas $40, groceries $33
July 6: Worked in the classroom with DD and DNephew all morning, so I bought them Subway $14, and paid DN $10, Anniversary dinner out $60
July 7: Gas $32
July 8: University stuff $120, vet $63, Christmas Shopping (great sale + $25 'gift' cards to reduce the amount to...) $74
July 9: $0
July 10: $0
July 11: Pool supplies $41, groceries $45, gas $46
July 12: groceries $61
July 13: DH topped up the gas $24, groceries $114

No Buy Days: 3/10

 

[wlake]

Here are my goals:
no buy days: 4/10 (it's always harder when I'm home full time!)
longest no buy streak: 3 (I really want to extend this to 4!)
dinners out: 0/4 (not counting traveling)
current no dinners out streak: 11
longest no dinners out streak: 12

7/1: $35 gas
7/2: Oh my. We were visiting my MIL, so... $9 bagels, $46 Trader Joe's, $17 IKEA, $10 dinner on the road home
7/3: $27 groceries
7/4: $8 ice cream
7/5: $12 Kohl's, $19 Walmart, $130 Princess Half registration
7/6:
7/7:
7/8: errand day, so too much to remember numbers for at the moment: haircuts for the boys, lunch out, new sunglasses, fabric, gas, Target
7/9: $25 Lowe's, $8 blueberry picking, $200 deposit for our Feb. WDW trip!
7/10: $60 at the town's fair. Why are country fairs so expensive?
7/11: errand day for the week, so $51 groceries, $82 Target, and $9 Staples as well as I-can't-remember Land's End
7/12:
7/13:

 

[YukiPhnx]

Congrats Charming!!

Debbie, a fridge is a great idea. I was able to find a medium sized one off craigslist for $40!

Yesterday was a $0 day because DBF showed up to surprise me again! I also made lunch for the both of us. Today, had lunch with some of my friends, but have enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow!

I'll be making the US trip on the 16th....so I've decided to up my budget to $150 to include food bought over the border and anything I buy in Canada, I record as usual.

July
Overall budget: 97.50/400
Gas: 0/80
$0 days: 7/10

Misc.
Eating out: 1/5
Clothes: 0/4
The Body Shop: 0/2
Gifts: 0/2
U.S shopping: $150

1-$0 (Off to a good start!)
2-$1.05 (McDonald's iced coffee)
3-$29.02 (groceries)
___
$40-30.07=$9.93

(This will be longer cause of the "uneven-ness" of days)
4-$0
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0 (FOUR DAYS IN A ROW!!!)
___
$40-0=$40

8-$32.64 (Roundtrip greyhound tickets and lunch)
9-$11.18 (anti-itch cream for all these darned bug bites)
10-$6.94 (drink and cookie from Starbucks, I gave a big tip)
___
$40-50.76=$-10.76

11-$0
12-$0
13-$16.67
___
$29.24-16.67=$12.57 (Ahh, back to balanced)

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[ronnmel]

After a rough start to July, things have been pretty good lately in terms of spending.

No Buy Days : 5/8
Gas : 41$ (max 140$)
Groceries : 46$ (max 200$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 178$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 189$ (max 400$)

01/07 : 5$ (greeting card)
02/07 : 113$ (DH's gift, snack)
03/07 : 16$ (movie)
04/07 : 178$ (dinner + movie)
05/07 : 41$ (gas)
06/07 : 12$
07/07 : 0$
08/07 : 43$ (haircut)
09/07 : 0$
10/07 : 0$
11/07 : 0$
12/07 : 46$ (groceries)
13/07 : 0$

I have two good pieces of budget news today.

1. I sent in the last payment for my car this morning

2. I got a call for a job interview friday morning

Plus today is a no buy day so that is always good news as well.

Woohoo! for all the good news, and good luck for the job interview!

Ahhhhh. Beautiful day today. Three garbage bags out of the classroom!

Yay! for cleaning the classroom.

Yesterday was a $0 day because DBF showed up to surprise me again! I also made lunch for the both of us. Today, had lunch with some of my friends, but have enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow!

How nice of him to keep surprising you like that!
BTW, I just posted aerial pictures of La Ronde in my TR and I thought of you.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

My goal is $400 for food and miscellaneous and $75 for gas.

General

1 - $67.01
2 - $0!
3 - $0!
4 - $17.35
5 - $0!
6 - $5.23
7 - $99.32
8 - $0!
9 - $0!
10 - $1.75
11 - $37.00
12 - $0!
13 - $0!

$400-$227.66=$172.34
$0 Buy Days: 7

Gas

$75-$0=$75

I am way ahead of pace again for this month. At least I'm doing GREAT so far with the gas budget!

I went and looked back at my tracking and realized I haven't bought gas since 6/21!

 

[bigmama67]

OK, so I MAY have some online work coming soon, and I wrote an appeal letter to Unemployment yesterday. I need to get plane tickets for DS and I to go to Arizona for my nephew's Bar Mitzvah in November, but I'm not going to get them until I have Unemployment sorted out and get my last tutoring check. Everything should be clearer two weeks from now so I just have to hang in there. Thanks for all the good wishes.

 

[ronnmel]

Ok so after being really good for over a week I went on a spending spree today! Bought Teva Mush flip flops for Disney (after reading so many good reviews here on the Dis), new joggin shoes (never really had a good pair, thought it'd be wise to invest at least once), and of course gas. Why do I always have to wait until the day the price goes up to fill up???


No Buy Days : 5/8
Gas : 66$ (max 140$)
Groceries : 46$ (max 200$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 183$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 348$ (max 400$)

01/07 : 5$ (greeting card)
02/07 : 113$ (DH's gift, snack)
03/07 : 16$ (movie)
04/07 : 178$ (dinner + movie)
05/07 : 41$ (gas)
06/07 : 12$
07/07 : 0$
08/07 : 43$ (haircut)
09/07 : 0$
10/07 : 0$
11/07 : 0$
12/07 : 46$ (groceries)
13/07 : 0$
14/07 : 189$ (shoes + gas + ice cream)

 

[YukiPhnx]

Awww, Mel! I'll go check them out right away.

I forgot that I need a dinner today....so had ended up buying smoe food on campus. I'll be getting gas later tonight, but I just need to record this now before I forget.

I'm really hoping the weather will be nice for the weekend!

July
Overall budget: 111.75/400
Gas: 0/80
$0 days: 7/10

Misc.
Eating out: 2/5
Clothes: 0/4
The Body Shop: 0/2
Gifts: 0/2
U.S shopping: $150

1-$0 (Off to a good start!)
2-$1.05 (McDonald's iced coffee)
3-$29.02 (groceries)
___
$40-30.07=$9.93

(This will be longer cause of the "uneven-ness" of days)
4-$0
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0 (FOUR DAYS IN A ROW!!!)
___
$40-0=$40

8-$32.64 (Roundtrip greyhound tickets and lunch)
9-$11.18 (anti-itch cream for all these darned bug bites)
10-$6.94 (drink and cookie from Starbucks, I gave a big tip)
___
$40-50.76=$-10.76

11-$0
12-$0
13-$16.67
___
$29.24-16.67=$12.57 (Ahh, back to balanced)

14-$14.25 (dinner on campus)
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$40-

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[Virgderon]

Almost a 0, but almost does not count.

Running Total: Spent $161
$1100 budget... $939 left
$0 Days: 4
Goal is 7 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 18

Groceries budget- $300-7= 293 left
Wedding shower budget - $600 -966= $366 over

July 1: 77 ( 25 to check DDs bag at airport, 17 gas, 35 misc stuff for DD)
July 2: 0
JUly 3: 0
July 4: 69 (26 shoes for my MOTB dress that ended up not matching, 17 Walgreens for pop and laundry detg, 10 gas , 16 movie)
July 5 : 0
July 6- 12 out of town
July 13 : 0
July 14 : 15 ( Walgreens)

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

My goal is $400 for food and miscellaneous and $75 for gas.

General

1 - $67.01
2 - $0!
3 - $0!
4 - $17.35
5 - $0!
6 - $5.23
7 - $99.32
8 - $0!
9 - $0!
10 - $1.75
11 - $37.00
12 - $0!
13 - $0!
14 - $0!

$400-$227.66=$172.34
$0 Buy Days: 8

Gas

$75-$0=$75

Tomorrow will likely not be a $0 Day. We need to get some groceries.

 

[wlake]

If I can manage a no buy and not get take out tomorrow, I can extend BOTH streaks! It may end up being a buy day due to problems with my new sunglasses though.

Here are my goals:
no buy days: 5/10 (it's always harder when I'm home full time!)
longest no buy streak: 3 (I really want to extend this to 4!)
dinners out: 0/4 (not counting traveling)
current no dinners out streak: 12
longest no dinners out streak: 12

7/1: $35 gas
7/2: Oh my. We were visiting my MIL, so... $9 bagels, $46 Trader Joe's, $17 IKEA, $10 dinner on the road home
7/3: $27 groceries
7/4: $8 ice cream
7/5: $12 Kohl's, $19 Walmart, $130 Princess Half registration
7/6:
7/7:
7/8: errand day, so too much to remember numbers for at the moment: haircuts for the boys, lunch out, new sunglasses, fabric, gas, Target
7/9: $25 Lowe's, $8 blueberry picking, $200 deposit for our Feb. WDW trip!
7/10: $60 at the town's fair. Why are country fairs so expensive?
7/11: errand day for the week, so $51 groceries, $82 Target, and $9 Staples as well as I-can't-remember Land's End
7/12:
7/13:
7/14:

 

[charming23]

Thanks for all the support everyone. It means so mucht o know I have you all for encouragement.

The air conditioner repair guys were here today and sadly out unit has gone to that big appliance field in the sky. It will cost a good chunk of money to replace it and right now it would cause a major strain on our budget. Luckily we have figured out a good system for keeping the house cool with fans. Hopefully I will get the job tomorrow and then we could replace it faster.

Anyways today we went out and got all of our groceries for the weekend. I am not reporting it here since it comes out of the vacation budget.

We did however stop for lunch and the consignment shop. I have gone down another pant size so I needed a few new bottoms to get through the summer.

July 2011 Budget

Groceries/Household- $300/$165.33 Left
Cat Supplies- $30/$14.82 left
Car/Gas- $70/$45.43 Left
Eating Out- $50/$15.00 left
Misc/Entertainment- $100/$53.76 Left

Total- $550/$294.34 Left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

7/1- $84.72 Grocery/Household, $15.18 Cat Supplies, and $24.57 Gas
7/2- $0
7/3- $0
7/4- $18.06 Giant Eagle/Groceries
7/5- $0
7/6- $22.33 Target/Misc and $8.06 lunch at Wendy's
7/7- $16.89 Groceries and $9.27 Lunch
7/8- $0
7/9- $0
7/10- $0
7/11- $0
7/12- $3.15 Starbucks and $15 Groceries
7/13- $0
7/14- $14.52 Lunch Out and $23.91 Consignment shop (4 bottoms for me, 1 for my mom and a new bathrobe for her)
7/15- Kelley's Island
7/16- Kelley's Island
7/17- Kelley's Island
7/18
7/19
7/20
7/21
7/22
7/23
7/24
7/25
7/26
7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31

8/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/ Store Savings- $20.20