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

[WAMUMOF4]

Whatever possessed me to think i could have that many no buy days in the month before we go away


i had to make a new category to cover all our pre trip expenses i need to not get that far behind again, took to long to catch it all up


8 sleeps till we hit the USA this month needs to be a big saving one

Goals VS actual spent
US Dollars $4000($7954.58)
grocery's $500($599.75)
fuel $600($440)
Travel insurance $500($426.22)
miscellaneous $100($186.75)
USA Trip expenses($791.78)

8 no spend days 1/8
5 Under $20 days 2/5

July 1 $25 fuel $30supermarket
July 2 $270 fuel $127.58 supermarket
July 3 $0
July 4 i spent $201.07 at the Disney store on things for our trip i might have to make another category for this as i will be doing a fair bit of online shopping this month for stuff to be delivered to us during our trip
July 5 24.43 supermarket
July 6 11.95 balaclava for DH $39.95 camera lens cleaning kit $52.02 souvenirs to take to USA $74.03 supermarket travel sox $43.16 of that
July 7 $1068 changed into $US1100 supermarket $20.95
July 8 $101 heating gas
July 9 $50 fuel $12.85 supermarket
July 10 supermarket $41.03
July 11 supermarket $53.17 accountant for tax $154
July 12 pizza $32.75 $346 Ds14 camera
July 13 $17.20 supermarket
July 14 $1500 into US$1559.10
July 15 $20.20 supermarket
July 16 $238 camera ds10 $71.33 supermarket $39.70 hardware store $20 fuel
July 17 $16.15 supermarket
July 18 $22.29 supermarket $1640 changed into US$1687.23
July 19 DH's tax return $2000 into US$2050.40 Supermarket $25.37
July 20 Almost a no buy day but thought i better buy some travel insurance $426.22
July 21 $1500 into $US$1557.75 $75 fuel $79.70 travel diaries $33.45 pet food $32.90 chemist $85.83 supermarket

YukiPhnx Thanks for the info on the falls it is all very helpful

 

[YukiPhnx]

Today's a $0 day, which means I've met my quota for the month! Just to keep me going, I'm going to add 3 more to my goal days.

July
Overall budget: 182.19/400
Gas: 60.68/80
$0 days: 10/13

Misc.
Eating out: 2/5
Clothes: 2/4
The Body Shop: 0/2
Gifts: 0/2
U.S shopping: $148.60/150

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), 20.09 (gas)
15-$0
16-$6.33 (spent on food on the CAD side), $148.60 (spent in US), 20.36 (gas)
___
$40-20.58=$19.42

17-$14.18 (food at Canada's Wonderland)
18-$0
19-$45.19 (Sanuks and a top), $20.23 (gas)
___
$40-59.37=$-19.37

20-$8.53 (lunch and dinner)
21-$11.07 (lunch and a drink)
22-$0
___
$20.63-19.60=$1.03 (made it just under!)

23-
24-
25-
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$40

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[wlake]

YukiPhnx, for meeting your goal, especially so early in the month!

Here are my goals:
no buy days: 7/10 (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: 2/4 (not counting traveling)
current no dinners out streak: 1
longest no dinners out streak: 14

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:
7/15: $10 ice cream
7/16: $7 blueberry picking, $32 Children's Place, $50 photos, $35 Christmas Tree Shop
7/17: $10 JoAnne's, $12 Walmart, $29 dinner (all good streaks must come to an end sometime!). Edited to add $50 gas and $5 Tupperware
7/18:
7/19:
7/20: $8 dinner, $9 boogie board, $80 new shoes
7/21: $6 ice cream, $9 groceries, $7 blueberry picking, $2 fabric

 

[charming23]

Today's a $0 day, which means I've met my quota for the month! Just to keep me going, I'm going to add 3 more to my goal days.

Congrats on making your goal!!!!!

Today is hot and muggy again here and since Grandma does not have her car we volunteered to drive her around and hang out in her air conditioning. Such a tough sacrifice, .


July 2011 Budget

Groceries/Household- $300/$117.25 Left
Cat Supplies- $30/-.18 left
Car/Gas- $70/$45.43 Left
Eating Out- $50/$15.00 left
Misc/Entertainment- $100/$53.76 Left

Total- $550/$231.26 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- $48.08 Aldi's and $15 cat supplies
7/19- $0
7/20- $0
7/21- $0
7/22- $0
7/23
7/24
7/25
7/26
7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31

12/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/ Store Savings- $20.20

 

[Virgderon]

Another 0. which is awesome since this weekend will be spendy.

Running Total: Spent $524
$1100 budget... $576 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 7 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 47

Groceries budget- $300-7-84-11= 198 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)
JUly 15: 84 ( Target groceries)
July 16-17 : 190 for the weekend
July 18 : 56 ( 26 Cracker barrell, 30 Harry Potter movie)
July 19 : 0
July 20: 33 ( gas 17, lunch 5, soda on sale 11)
July 21: 0
July 22 : 0

 

[WAMUMOF4]

Whatever possessed me to think i could have that many no buy days in the month before we go away


i had to make a new category to cover all our pre trip expenses i need to not get that far behind again, took to long to catch it all up


8 sleeps till we hit the USA this month needs to be a big saving one

Goals VS actual spent
US Dollars $4000($7954.58)
grocery's $500($599.75)
fuel $600($585)
Travel insurance $500($426.22)
miscellaneous $100($186.75)
USA Trip expenses($791.78)

8 no spend days 2/8
5 Under $20 days 2/5

July 1 $25 fuel $30supermarket
July 2 $270 fuel $127.58 supermarket
July 3 $0
July 4 i spent $201.07 at the Disney store on things for our trip i might have to make another category for this as i will be doing a fair bit of online shopping this month for stuff to be delivered to us during our trip
July 5 24.43 supermarket
July 6 11.95 balaclava for DH $39.95 camera lens cleaning kit $52.02 souvenirs to take to USA $74.03 supermarket travel sox $43.16 of that
July 7 $1068 changed into $US1100 supermarket $20.95
July 8 $101 heating gas
July 9 $50 fuel $12.85 supermarket
July 10 supermarket $41.03
July 11 supermarket $53.17 accountant for tax $154
July 12 pizza $32.75 $346 Ds14 camera
July 13 $17.20 supermarket
July 14 $1500 into US$1559.10
July 15 $20.20 supermarket
July 16 $238 camera ds10 $71.33 supermarket $39.70 hardware store $20 fuel
July 17 $16.15 supermarket
July 18 $22.29 supermarket $1640 changed into US$1687.23
July 19 DH's tax return $2000 into US$2050.40 Supermarket $25.37
July 20 Almost a no buy day but thought i better buy some travel insurance $426.22
July 21 $1500 into $US$1557.75 $75 fuel $79.70 travel diaries $33.45 pet food $32.90 chemist $85.83 supermarket
July 22 $0 we managed one
July23 $145 fuel

YukiPhnx Thanks for the info on the falls it is all very helpful and Congrats on your no buy days

 

[ronnmel]

We had a little party last night with all our brothers and DH's cousins, but DH decided to pay for everything so it's a no-buy day for me! And we had a blast!

No Buy Days : 9/8 (new goal 15)
Gas : 96$ (max 140$)
Groceries : 46$ (max 200$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 202$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 404$ (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)
15/07 : 0$
16/07 : 46$ (walmart + dinner)
17/07 : 0$
18/07 : 0$
19/07 : 38$ (food + gas)
20/07 : 16$ (ice cream + exercise tank top)
21/07 : 5$ (greeting card)
22/07 : 0$

 

[charming23]

Another $0 day here. It is a little cooler than it has been but not by much so I am staying inside with the fans.

July 2011 Budget

Groceries/Household- $300/$117.25 Left
Cat Supplies- $30/-.18 left
Car/Gas- $70/$45.43 Left
Eating Out- $50/$15.00 left
Misc/Entertainment- $100/$53.76 Left

Total- $550/$231.26 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- $48.08 Aldi's and $15 cat supplies
7/19- $0
7/20- $0
7/21- $0
7/22- $0
7/23- $0
7/24
7/25
7/26
7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31

13/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/ Store Savings- $20.20

 

[YukiPhnx]

Thanks everybody!!

And WAMUMOF4, I'm glad I could help!

Today's another $0 day! Next month is going to be rocky...so I'm glad I'm saving so much money this month!

July
Overall budget: 182.19/400
Gas: 60.68/80
$0 days: 11/13

Misc.
Eating out: 2/5
Clothes: 2/4
The Body Shop: 0/2
Gifts: 0/2
U.S shopping: $148.60/150

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), 20.09 (gas)
15-$0
16-$6.33 (spent on food on the CAD side), $148.60 (spent in US), 20.36 (gas)
___
$40-20.58=$19.42

17-$14.18 (food at Canada's Wonderland)
18-$0
19-$45.19 (Sanuks and a top), $20.23 (gas)
___
$40-59.37=$-19.37

20-$8.53 (lunch and dinner)
21-$11.07 (lunch and a drink)
22-$0
___
$20.63-19.60=$1.03 (made it just under!)

23-$0
24-
25-
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$40

26-
27-
28-
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29-
30-
31-
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[Virgderon]

Not too bad on the spending this weekend at Disney, but part of that was because I had to take DD to the clinic for an ear infection. We had a nice day on Saturday at Epcot but basically took today off.

Running Total: Spent $704
$1100 budget... $396 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 7 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 47

Groceries budget- $300-7-84-11= 198 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)
JUly 15: 84 ( Target groceries)
July 16-17 : 190 for the weekend
July 18 : 56 ( 26 Cracker barrell, 30 Harry Potter movie)
July 19 : 0
July 20: 33 ( gas 17, lunch 5, soda on sale 11)
July 21: 0
July 22 : 0
JUly 23- 23 : 180 ( Disney weekend)

 

[charming23]

Ran out to the store for some snack foods as we did not buy any last week.


July 2011 Budget

Groceries/Household- $300/$108.70 Left
Cat Supplies- $30/-.18 left
Car/Gas- $70/$45.43 Left
Eating Out- $50/$15.00 left
Misc/Entertainment- $100/$53.76 Left

Total- $550/$222.71 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- $48.08 Aldi's and $15 cat supplies
7/19- $0
7/20- $0
7/21- $0
7/22- $0
7/23- $0
7/24- $8.55 grocery
7/25
7/26
7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31

13/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/ Store Savings- $20.20

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

Boy I am so far behind. Guess time does fly when your having fun. lol

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.
07/13-0-
07/14$53.00 2 $25.00 gift cards and a birthday card for DNephew
07/15 $15.00 Target. Saved $12.00 in coupons
07/16 $80.00 in gas $40.00 for my van and $40.00 for the boat.
Spent the day with family celebrating my DNephews birthday.
07/17 -0- Went to church and then back home. Relaxed for the whole day by the pool
07/18 $30.00 $24.00 Walmart and $6.00 Subway broke down and bought lunch out today.
07/19 -0- To hot to do anything. Work and pool.
07/20$12.00 eat out at a jewelry bingo party.
07/21 -0- Another hot day.
07/22 $60.00 $12.00 at Target, but, saved $23.00 in coupons $48.00 btwn Costcos and Shop Rite.
07/23 $34.00 $24.00 eating out with DD. We actually went out to go shopping for Sr. picture outfits,but couldn't find anything she liked. So, we saved money really. lol And treated ourselved to DQ later in the night.
07/24 -0- Church and the back home for the day.

Auto: $120.00/$200
Groceries/Household Goods:$208.00/$200.00
Eating Out/Entertainment: $107.00/$100.00
Misc:$65.00/$200
No Buy days10/10 reached my goal
Coupon savings $93.00

 

[YukiPhnx]

Virg, wow a Disney weekend sounds AWESOME. Must be nice to live so close.

I went to the zoo today! It wasn't too hot or humid today and there were lots of breezes. It was a great day to go.

July
Overall budget: 182.19/400
Gas: 60.68/80
$0 days: 11/13

Misc.
Eating out: 2/5
Clothes: 2/4
The Body Shop: 0/2
Gifts: 0/2
U.S shopping: $148.60/150

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), 20.09 (gas)
15-$0
16-$6.33 (spent on food on the CAD side), $148.60 (spent in US), 20.36 (gas)
___
$40-20.58=$19.42

17-$14.18 (food at Canada's Wonderland)
18-$0
19-$45.19 (Sanuks and a top), $20.23 (gas)
___
$40-59.37=$-19.37

20-$8.53 (lunch and dinner)
21-$11.07 (lunch and a drink)
22-$0
___
$20.63-19.60=$1.03 (made it just under!)

23-$0
24-$23 (zoo)
25-
___
$40

26-
27-
28-
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29-
30-
31-
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[WAMUMOF4]

With only 5 days to go i should be on but i just feel so i shouldn't be we are all set to go have met all our changing money over goals and the only thing we have not met is no spend days

Whatever possessed me to think i could have that many no buy days in the month before we go away


i had to make a new category to cover all our pre trip expenses i need to not get that far behind again, took to long to catch it all up

5 sleeps till we hit the USA this month needs to be a big saving one

Goals VS actual spent
US Dollars $4000($7954.58)
grocery's $500($609.50)
fuel $600($585)
Travel insurance $500($426.22)
miscellaneous $100($186.75)
USA Trip expenses($791.78)

8 no spend days 3/8
5 Under $20 days 3/5

July 1 $25 fuel $30supermarket
July 2 $270 fuel $127.58 supermarket
July 3 $0
July 4 i spent $201.07 at the Disney store on things for our trip i might have to make another category for this as i will be doing a fair bit of online shopping this month for stuff to be delivered to us during our trip
July 5 24.43 supermarket
July 6 11.95 balaclava for DH $39.95 camera lens cleaning kit $52.02 souvenirs to take to USA $74.03 supermarket travel sox $43.16 of that
July 7 $1068 changed into $US1100 supermarket $20.95
July 8 $101 heating gas
July 9 $50 fuel $12.85 supermarket
July 10 supermarket $41.03
July 11 supermarket $53.17 accountant for tax $154
July 12 pizza $32.75 $346 Ds14 camera
July 13 $17.20 supermarket
July 14 $1500 into US$1559.10
July 15 $20.20 supermarket
July 16 $238 camera ds10 $71.33 supermarket $39.70 hardware store $20 fuel
July 17 $16.15 supermarket
July 18 $22.29 supermarket $1640 changed into US$1687.23
July 19 DH's tax return $2000 into US$2050.40 Supermarket $25.37
July 20 Almost a no buy day but thought i better buy some travel insurance $426.22
July 21 $1500 into $US$1557.75 $75 fuel $79.70 travel diaries $33.45 pet food $32.90 chemist $85.83 supermarket
July 22 $0 we managed one
July 23 $145 fuel
July 24 $0
July 25 $9.75 supermarket

 

[ronnmel]

With only 5 days to go i should be on but i just feel so i shouldn't be we are all set to go have met all our changing money over goals and the only thing we have not met is no spend days

Hope you feel better soon! Sad days happen once in a while for no reason.



We threw a little surprise party for my mom, partly to celebrate her birthday 2 months late (she fell ill and was rushed to the hospital on her birthday) and partly just to brighten her day.

No Buy Days : 9/8 (new goal 15)
Gas : 96$ (max 140$)
Groceries : 46$ (max 200$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 235$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 404$ (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)
15/07 : 0$
16/07 : 46$ (walmart + dinner)
17/07 : 0$
18/07 : 0$
19/07 : 38$ (food + gas)
20/07 : 16$ (ice cream + exercise tank top)
21/07 : 5$ (greeting card)
22/07 : 0$
23/07 : 33$ (lunch + snacks)

 

[charming23]

Stayed home and got some chores done arond the house. It is not too bad heat wise today so I got a lot done before the temps rise again.


July 2011 Budget

Groceries/Household- $300/$108.70 Left
Cat Supplies- $30/-.18 left
Car/Gas- $70/$45.43 Left
Eating Out- $50/$15.00 left
Misc/Entertainment- $100/$53.76 Left

Total- $550/$222.71 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- $48.08 Aldi's and $15 cat supplies
7/19- $0
7/20- $0
7/21- $0
7/22- $0
7/23- $0
7/24- $8.55 grocery
7/25- $0
7/26
7/27
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31

14/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/ Store Savings- $20.20

 

[Virgderon]

Oh Yuki, it is wonderful to live so close to Disney- I never take it for granted. It is about an hour and fifteen minute drive for us. I'm not a big fan of going there in the summer, but we started in the late afternoon and stayed until closing so it worked out to not be unbearably hot. The fireworks and the new pre show that they project onto the castle are very good.

Plus things like DDs ear infection you take in stride. Taking time to go the clinic is not ruining a trip that I paid thousands of dollars for, so its easy to be supportive and not get cranky.

Running Total: Spent $736
$1100 budget... $364 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 7 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 47

Groceries budget- $300-7-84-11= 198 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)
JUly 15: 84 ( Target groceries)
July 16-17 : 190 for the weekend
July 18 : 56 ( 26 Cracker barrell, 30 Harry Potter movie)
July 19 : 0
July 20: 33 ( gas 17, lunch 5, soda on sale 11)
July 21: 0
July 22 : 0
JUly 23- 24 : 180 ( Disney weekend)
July 25: 32 : allergy stuff and twinkies

 

[YukiPhnx]

Wamum, don't feel so bad! Vacation months are always harder because so many unexpected expenses pop up.

Mel, that's so sweet!

Virg, that sounds like a really good idea!

Did some grocery shopping a few days ago, so just made that food for dinner. Spent a day trying to catch up on my threads here on the DIS. Also spent some time on the Wii with Zumba fitness, which is a great game! Gives you a really good workout, with warm up and cool down sessions too.

July
Overall budget: 182.19/400
Gas: 60.68/80
$0 days: 12/13

Misc.
Eating out: 2/5
Clothes: 2/4
The Body Shop: 0/2
Gifts: 0/2
U.S shopping: $148.60/150

1-$0 (Off to a good start!)
2-$1.05 (McDonald's iced coffee)
3-$29.02 (groceries)
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$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!!!)
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$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)
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$40-50.76=$-10.76

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

14-$14.25 (dinner on campus), 20.09 (gas)
15-$0
16-$6.33 (spent on food on the CAD side), $148.60 (spent in US), 20.36 (gas)
___
$40-20.58=$19.42

17-$14.18 (food at Canada's Wonderland)
18-$0
19-$45.19 (Sanuks and a top), $20.23 (gas)
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$40-59.37=$-19.37

20-$8.53 (lunch and dinner)
21-$11.07 (lunch and a drink)
22-$0
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$20.63-19.60=$1.03 (made it just under!)

23-$0
24-$23 (zoo)
25-$0
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$40-23=$17

26-
27-
28-
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$40

29-
30-
31-
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[wlake]

Catch up time!

Here are my goals:
no buy days: 8/10 (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: 3/4 (not counting traveling)
current no dinners out streak: 2
longest no dinners out streak: 14

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:
7/15: $10 ice cream
7/16: $7 blueberry picking, $32 Children's Place, $50 photos, $35 Christmas Tree Shop
7/17: $10 JoAnne's, $12 Walmart, $29 dinner (all good streaks must come to an end sometime!). Edited to add $50 gas and $5 Tupperware
7/18:
7/19:
7/20: $8 dinner, $9 boogie board, $80 new shoes
7/21: $6 ice cream, $9 groceries, $7 blueberry picking, $2 fabric
7/23: Lowe's and Target
7/24: dinner out, clothes for me
7/25: Target, BJ's, pharmacy
7/26:

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 11/8 (new goal 15)
Gas : 132$ (max 140$)
Groceries : 97$ (max 200$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 235$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 404$ (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)
15/07 : 0$
16/07 : 46$ (walmart + dinner)
17/07 : 0$
18/07 : 0$
19/07 : 38$ (food + gas)
20/07 : 16$ (ice cream + exercise tank top)
21/07 : 5$ (greeting card)
22/07 : 0$
23/07 : 33$ (lunch + snacks)
24/07 : 0$
25/07 : 0$
26/07 : 86$ (gas + cat stuff)