March No Buy..Rolling Into Spring!

[Tiggerish]

Virgderon, that was quick work on finding a new job. Hope it is a good one.

QVCshopper- why people cannot do the RSVP thing is just beyond me. I actually had some one tell me that RSVP on an invitation was just a fancy decorative thing and did not mean anything. When I explained what it was, she said, that it could not mean she were suppose to say if she were attending because she would not know until was time to go whether or not she would feel like coming or if they would just skip it and how she thought it was "incredibly inconsiderate" for me to ask for an answer in advance.

IMALOVNDISNEY-sorry about the basement. Just because you have experience does not mean you want to repeat that experience.

 

[wlake]

Virgderon, congratulations on the new job! You must be thrilled!

QVCshopper, no kidding on RSVPs! Drives me crazy! (That being said, I was the mom who misplaced an invitation until a day after the RSVP date a couple of weeks ago. Oops.)

IMALOVNDISNEY, what a terrible way to start the week. Glad it wasn't a huge problem.


3/1:
3/2: $26 groceries
3/3:
3/4: $35 after school care, $540 brakes (ouch!), $12 dinner, $16 skate night
3/5: $13 Christmas Tree Shop (candy for basket raffle, cupcake liners, and replacement garden clogs), $23 Yankee Candle (candle!), $24 Michael's (gifts for parties the boys are invited to), $51 gas and $16 Walmart (groceries and a dry cleaning kit I have a rebate for)
3/6: $35 dinner out to celebrate DS8 scoring two goals in his indoor soccer game today (he's not terribly athletic, so this is huge!) and the end of indoor soccer season (DS5 played too, but he's very athletic and usually outscored the other team.) as well as $49 on groceries. A little more bragging here: I saved $30 on that grocery bill between sales and coupons AND walked out with coupons for a free box of frozen fish and a free gallon of milk. I'm pretty proud of myself!
3/7:

no buy days: 3/12
longest streak: 3
meals out: 2/5
days without dinner out: 1
longest no dinners out streak: 10
non-consumable items purchased: 0/0

 

[charming23]

IMALOVNDISNEY, Sorry to hear about your flooded basement. I am glad everyone is okay though

Virgderon Congrats on getting another job so quickly.

Stayed in today doing laundry and putting in more job applications.

March 2011 Budget
Grocery/Household- $300/$218.54 Left
Car/Gas- $50
Eating out -$50/$31.30 Left
Entertainment/Misc- $100/ $89.75

Total- $500/$389.59 Left

Goal of 15 No Buy Days

Week One
3/1- $75.27 Giant Eagle and $6.19 Drugmart
3/2- $18.70 Loco Laprachaun
3/3- $0
3/4- $0
3/5- $0
3/6- $10.25 Pat Catan's
3/7- $0

Week Two
3/8
3/9
3/10
3/11
3/12
3/13
3/14

4/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/Store Savings- $43.38

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

March 1-$0
March 2- Met my wonderful hubby for lunch. He needed a break, and we had a $5 off coupon. My lunch was only $7, so we figured $2 for me to eat and I brought home enough for us both to have lunch tomorrow. Then I spent $4 on new gloves (8 pairs) for the kids, they seem to lose them like crazy. Hubby and I went to a prescreening of a movie tonight, it was awful, but he liked it. It was called Cedar Rapids. We didn't buy anything there. I did buy groceries as well. Will record those tomorrow cause I need to dig out the receipt. I got a call while we were at the movies that I don't have to work tomorrow after all. So happy about that, have lots to do in the morning tomorrow.
March 3-$0 Have a busy evening ahead, but made dinner in the crockpot this morning so we are good there. My DD9 has a field trip with Brownies to Bruster's ice cream, but if I report a no spend day I won't get an ice cream. And that will be good for my wallet and waistline.
March 4- DH told the kids we'd go out to dinner. It was kids eat free, but still was $23 with tip. I also had to go get DD16 tights for Model UN and some meds, $20ish
March 5-$0 Went to the gym with DH, he is allowed to bring a guest for free. Then spent the day massively cleaning, more to be done but made a big dent.
March 6-$6 dinner for the kids, $15 dinner with hubby (B1G1coupon) and $24 bowling. Starting the week on a good note...priceless!!!
March 7-$0 Can't catch up now, DD11 has a "surprise" band concert tonight. They said it was a possiblity in September but never mentioned it again and I forgot. Apparently a note came home back when I saw sick but it is MIA. My DD forgot about it too, she said the band teacher never said a word till today. So I have been scrambling to get her clothes together. We are headed out in a few, will catch up tonight. Hope all is well...

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No Buy Days- 4/18

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Groceries- $60ish
Gas-

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Back in 2011 cause I'd miss you all so much!
January-25
February-15
Longest Streak-19 (but I was sick)

Joined No Buy as a New Years Resolution in 2010 and did pretty well-
January-14 Days
February-13 Days
March-17 Days
April-15 Days
May-15 Days
June-8 Days
July- 6 Days (only in town and only recorded half the month, probably had about 7-8 no buys while away)
August-15 Days
September-15 Days
October-13 Days
November-6 Days (only kept track till November 16th cause we were in Disney the rest of the month)
December-10
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row

 

[ronnmel]

We had a snow storm today, started yesterday, so did not go out today (well, except to shovel out the car.)

No Buy Days : 5/12
Gas : 38$ (max 120$ Raising the max due to higher gas prices)
Groceries : 0$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 35$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 67$ (max 200$)

03/01 : 45$ (gas + pharmacy)
03/02 : 0$
03/03 : 0$
03/04 : 0$
03/05 : 0$[
03/06 : 95$ (canadian tire + dinner)
03/07 : 0$

No kidding! We have a new principal this year, and at Christmas we forgot to tell her how wild the kids are. They are stressed about being at home (in our school we are the stability for them). At least it isn't a full moon, too!

Same here. It's so sad when you here a 6 y.o. saying he wishes his mom would leave them at day care and not pick them up until midnight.

03/07$160.00 Woke up to a flooded basement this morning. By 6:30 AM my DH was at Home Depot buying a sump pump and things that go with it. Luckly I don't think there is a lot of loss. Our old house used to flood every year. We learned from that. We have a small fortune invested in totes and very few things are actually on the floor. Although we did loose a stockpile of T. Paper, paper towels, and 4 bags of dog food so far. DH was able to take the day off from work to get rid of the water and start the cleaning.

Talk about bad news when you wake up! Hope this gets fixed soon. Glad at elast you did not lose much.

Today I got a job !!!!! Yay for me. It starts April 4th, so I am going to try to go to Chicago before then and get my house ready to sell.

Woohoo!! Congrats on the new job! It's nice too that you have some time off before you start to settle things with your house.

I took my sister out to lunch and finished twisting her arm to let me take her two children (ages 14 and 21) to WDW in August. So the trip is on!! I have been working on her and my BIL since before Christmas to agree to this trip. I upped the offer to include both of the parents and kept talking about how oldest niece is going to graduate from college in Dec and who knows when she would get to do a family vacation after that 'cause she will be entering the working world (in others words, doing the guilt thing) and it finally paid off.

Yay! Good job on finally convincing your sister to let you bring her kids to Disney! I hope you all have a nice trip.

 

[3goofyboys]

I'm in for the month! This should be a good month. No birthdays, baby showers, weddings, ect! I am hopeful that we will be spending a bit extra on moving, but we'll see if our current house rents soon. We did move back our move date to May 1st, so we have a bit more time.

I'm going for 14 no buys this month.

March 1

March 2 $31 groceries, $40 gas

March 3 $20 groceries (why is there always one more thing to pick up?)

March 4

March 5

March 6 $273 groceries- that will hopefully keep us in food for the next 2 weeks and it includes a baby shower gift (apparently I spoke too soon when I said we didn't have any this month) and dollar bills to play a shower game.

March 7 PLUS, I actually won all my dollar bills back plus $36 at the shower last night. That was enough to cover my baby shower gift. Hooray!! I did pay tuition for my guys today, but that comes out of a separate account, so I'm not counting that.

4/14 No Buys

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

IMALOVNDISNEY, sorry about the basement. Ours floods too and yet I always let my guard down and lose things. Nothing major, just like you TP and stuff but I get so annoyed with myself when it happens. Glad nothing too important was lost. What a headache though. Uggg, and it's always on Mondays.

Virgderon, great news about the job!!! Enjoy the little break to see your family in Chicago and good luck with selling the house.

QVC- RSVPs, don't get me started!!!

Tiggerish, will you adopt my kids as your nieces? You sound like a great aunt!!!

 

[3goofyboys]

Thanks for the info! Now, if someone could just convince me I haven't lost my mind! We're thinking of a full fledged WDW trip for summer of 2012, so I'm afraid a Feb. trip might throw a kink into the budget, so I've got to think that through too. On the other hand, it just might be our excuse for APs!

I think that is a GREAT reason to get APs!!

Yes, it is 16 minute mile. We got down to 13.5/14 min. mile in training, so the 16 in the half wasn't too bad. And we knew exactly when we had to be in the MK to miss the sweepers. We didn't even stop to talk to our cheerleaders at the Contemporary and I had to go to the bathroom soooo bad, but DSis wouldn't let me.
No kidding! We have a new principal this year, and at Christmas we forgot to tell her how wild the kids are. They are stressed about being at home (in our school we are the stability for them). At least it isn't a full moon, too!

I almost peed my pants during a race once! The things we do to ourselves!

This month has three birthdays, one of which is my son's fifth birthday party. Why don't people RSVP?

Did you send out regular invites or evite? I've found I get a much better response with evite because RSVP just takes a click.

03/07$160.00 Woke up to a flooded basement this morning. By 6:30 AM my DH was at Home Depot buying a sump pump and things that go with it. Luckly I don't think there is a lot of loss. Our old house used to flood every year. We learned from that. We have a small fortune invested in totes and very few things are actually on the floor. Although we did loose a stockpile of T. Paper, paper towels, and 4 bags of dog food so far. DH was able to take the day off from work to get rid of the water and start the cleaning.

What a gross way to wake up!

IMALOVN,Today I got a job !!!!! Yay for me. It starts April 4th, so I am going to try to go to Chicago before then and get my house ready to sell.

Yay for a new job!!

I took my sister out to lunch and finished twisting her arm to let me take her two children (ages 14 and 21) to WDW in August. So the trip is on!! I have been working on her and my BIL since before Christmas to agree to this trip. I upped the offer to include both of the parents and kept talking about how oldest niece is going to graduate from college in Dec and who knows when she would get to do a family vacation after that 'cause she will be entering the working world (in others words, doing the guilt thing) and it finally paid off.

What a wonderful Aunt you are!

 

[Debbie]

This month has three birthdays, one of which is my son's fifth birthday party. Why don't people RSVP?

The bane of a mother planning a party. I was glad when my kids decided a sleepover with a couple of best friends was enough.

Woke up to a flooded basement this morning. By 6:30 AM my DH was at Home Depot buying a sump pump and things that go with it. Luckly I don't think there is a lot of loss. Our old house used to flood every year. We learned from that. We have a small fortune invested in totes and very few things are actually on the floor. Although we did loose a stockpile of T. Paper, paper towels, and 4 bags of dog food so far. DH was able to take the day off from work to get rid of the water and start the cleaning.

Yeah, with all the tubs at home and school, I want stock in Rubbermaid!

Today I got a job !!!!! Yay for me. It starts April 4th, so I am going to try to go to Chicago before then and get my house ready to sell.

Hooray!

Feeling pretty good about this month. I started out rocky, but am making up for it.

Budget:$800
Spent: $363.17

3/1: $171.00-$38 on new phone, $133 on baseball tics
3/2: $18.28 groceries
3/3: no buy
3/4: no buy
3/5: no buy
3/6: $173.89-$33.30 gas, $14.00 museum entry, $126.59 groceries
3/7: no buy (of course, the day's not over)

You ARE making up for it. Keep up the good work.

I took my sister out to lunch and finished twisting her arm to let me take her two children (ages 14 and 21) to WDW in August. So the trip is on!! I have been working on her and my BIL since before Christmas to agree to this trip. I upped the offer to include both of the parents and kept talking about how oldest niece is going to graduate from college in Dec and who knows when she would get to do a family vacation after that 'cause she will be entering the working world (in others words, doing the guilt thing) and it finally paid off.

Good working on the sister. You will have SUCH a BLAST!

Stayed in today doing laundry and putting in more job applications.

Fingers crossed!

Can't catch up now, DD11 has a "surprise" band concert tonight. They said it was a possibility in September but never mentioned it again and I forgot. Apparently a note came home back when I saw sick but it is MIA. My DD forgot about it too, she said the band teacher never said a word till today. So I have been scrambling to get her clothes together. We are headed out in a few, will catch up tonight. Hope all is well...

I'm sure it will be wonderful.

I actually won all my dollar bills back plus $36 at the shower last night. That was enough to cover my baby shower gift. Hooray!! I did pay tuition for my guys today, but that comes out of a separate account, so I'm not counting that.

You win that kind of cash at a baby shower? Hmmmm Maybe we need a baby shower around here.

 

[SunnieRN]

Now, down to business:

February 25-March 11:

No buy goal: 7
Cash: $100
Medical:$180/-20 /-75
Groceries:$200/-92

Feb 25: $92 groceries
Feb 26: $0
Feb 27: $0
Feb 28: $0 ( do not count medical costs, just try to contain them )
March 1: $0 have to go to a meeting at work.: they usually put out coffee.
March 2: $12 Subway, picked up my med refills, which I track, but don't count.
March 3: $0, I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.
March 4: $0, was going to buy fruit at work last night, but someone bought it for me!! She said, well, I can afford it. I notice you haven't been spending any money lately. I explained about no-buy, then she wanted me to have a no-buy day!
March 5: $0 This was not planned as I really wanted to go to Target, as I need a couple of items, but my punky feeling is a horrible chest cold.
March 6: $0, was going to go buy medicine, but too achy and sneezy. So being lazy, in bed. Maybe tomorrow.

No buy goal: 7 / 8 accomplished![/QUOTE]

 

[3goofyboys]

You win that kind of cash at a baby shower? Hmmmm Maybe we need a baby shower around here.

One of the activities was a game called Left Right Center. Everyone started with $3 and there were quite a few people playing, so it made for a big pot!

 

[angierae]

3/1: $1.59 @ CVS
3/2:
3/3: $3.17 for the "free" photo notepad through Walgreens that was advertised here on the Dis.
3/4: $2.60 for a coffee and a donut at Tim Hortons. I really wanted a treat.
3/5:
3/6: (Went grocery shopping, but stayed within my budget ($100 a week)
3/7: $30 for discount Disney on Ice tix.

 

[h2oophelia]

Goals:
No buy: 12 days
Eating out: no more than 4 times
Groceries: $250/$160.84 left
Entertainment: $75/$66 left

3/1 $0
3/2 $9 for two Fandango movie tickets @ livingsocial.com
3/3 $0
3/4 $182.00 for 2 tickets to Wicked. $40.41 oil change for the 'ol Saturn
3/5 $89.16 groceries
3/6 $0
3/7 $8.70 for lunch at Subway (purely out of laziness)

No Buy days: 3/12

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $854.92/COLOR]
$0 Days:2/14 Got 13 no buys last month, trying to up it to one more.

Groceries ($279-$9/day)- $80.81
Eating Out ($217-$7/day)- $86.09
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($806-$26/day) two trips by train, Great America season pass installment, 2nd half of our airplane tickets for October $688.02
Gas $250- (3/1-$23.69), (3/6-$28.55)= $52.24

WEEK 1 BEGIN:
1- $15.76 (Dominick's-Groceries), $31.02 (Target-Pictures), $23.69 (Gas)
2- $0
3- $9.26 (Walgreens-Groceries), $2.85 (Meijer- Groceries), $3.97 (Dominick's-Groceries), $26.58 (Jewel-Prescription), $12.46 (McDonald's-Eating Out)
4- $0
5- $11 (Zoo Admission), $16 (Eating Out), $37 (Chinese- Eating Out-we bought food for 5 people), $3.91 (Home Depot- Misc.)
6- $196 (Spring Awakening Tickets-Misc. Weren't expecting this, but we are sitting 2nd row center and it is our 7 year anniversary of knowing each other and it is the last performance of the show in Chicago...I forgot that my husband wanted to see this, he wanted to go to two shows and sit in the cheap seats, but for the price of sitting in the 2nd to last row for two nights it is the same as sitting in the front row for one performance, so we opted for sitting close, since our broadway series shows are for the cheap seats), $149.41 (Cedar Point Hotel-Misc.), $31.75 (Driver's License Renewal),
$126.11 (Sears Essentials-Misc. husband wanted a Logitech harmony remote forever! and it was more than half off in liquidation sale), $20.63 (Culver's-Eating Out), $2 (Dollar Tree-Papers), $6.96 (Dominick's-Groceries), $12.50 (Meijer-Groceries), $82.73 (Printer Ink), $27.51 (Amazon.com-Veggie Cages and hiking book)
7- $5.18 (Trader Joe's-Groceries), $24.33 (Joe Caputo-Groceries)


Budget: $1552....55%
Month: 7/31: 23%
No Buy: 2/14: 14%

My savings from coupons and sales: $414.08

 

[Orangewolf]

March 1st: (Gas)$61.90 - (Groceries) $60.13 - (Household - vitamins, shampoo etc) $28.59

March 2nd - $0

March 3rd - Tickets To WDW $1243 RT for 5 people from MSP.
(Groceries) $38.02

March 4th - (Pharmacy) $9.17 - (Groceries)$4.14

March 5th - (Groceries) $119.29
(Household) $13.05

March 6th - $0

March 7th - Post Office - $8.80 - book of stamps

$221.58/$425 Groc.
$61.90/$150 Gas
$48.04/$75 Household

 

[nunzia]

Virgderon, that was quick work on finding a new job. Hope it is a good one.

QVCshopper- why people cannot do the RSVP thing is just beyond me. I actually had some one tell me that RSVP on an invitation was just a fancy decorative thing and did not mean anything. When I explained what it was, she said, that it could not mean she were suppose to say if she were attending because she would not know until was time to go whether or not she would feel like coming or if they would just skip it and how she thought it was "incredibly inconsiderate" for me to ask for an answer in advance.

IMALOVNDISNEY-sorry about the basement. Just because you have experience does not mean you want to repeat that experience.

Wow... I think that would mean I didn't feel like inviting that person anymore
I understand..no one ever RSVPs anymore and it makes it very hard to plan.

 

[nunzia]

Here we go:
Mar 1: 56.07 Birthday gifts for DBIL and DN, $12.20 for Amazon peanut butter (seemed like a good deal)
Mar 2: Not starting out very well! have to get past these birthdays...$98.34 groceries (bday dinner for 13, dog food, beer..etc), $46.00 DH gas (some will be reimbursed..he has to go to a town 90 miles away for a continuing ed class)
Mar 3: $2.42 for movie rental and a coffee, $9.00 dinner out with friend
Mar 4: DH got $23 reimbursement for the gas, so Plus that..then minus $10 to the church rummage sale (cool pedal car for DGD and really neat vintage desk for DGS), $9.48 Dollar Tree
Mar 5: $0 yea!
Mar 6: $7.43 WalMart (clearance toys..from $6 to $2 for Easter gifts & Sharpies on clearance) $2.19 Dollar Tree...needed 8x8 foil pan for a dessert I have to bring somewhere and got 4 at Dollar Tree for $2 instead of 3 at WalMart of $3)
Mar 8: 24.34 Amazon (2 pop up Harry Potter books and baby gift..had $10 off coupon


$555.53/$800.00 remaining
__________________

 

[bigmama67]

I'm in. The tricky thing this month will be that I have to figure out where I'm getting daycare $ from, as I now have some part-time tutoring but that decreases my unemployment. I'm starting to figure that out though.

I was under budget in February! I still have a bill to pay though...I'm mailing the check tomorrow.

I don't count buying groceries as spending $ though I do keep track of my grocery spending...so I will aim for 10 no-buy days. My birthday is March 11th and whatever I feel like that day (coffee, Pepsi, Dunkin' Donuts, whatever) I will get, darnit!

3/1: Between yesterday and today, spent $63.18 on groceries from March's budget/$536.82 left (we budget $600 but then again, I need to trim this because of the daycare issue.) DH doctor $15.
I don't count medical or groceries so... $0

3/2: $4.74 on groceries (GREAT deals at Acme!) $15 for some LeapPad cartridges for DD (brand new off Craig's List). $7.41 at A.C. Moore (T-shirt for DS for his show, PipSqueak markers, stickers).

3/3 $8.48 on 2 heater fans at Target (75% off!); $52.66 for groceries (LOTS of good deals again!) $7.99 for a ladybug umbrella for DD (Amazon, free prime shipping); DH spent $1.54 on soda at Rite Aid because he needed $20 cash back on a road trip for work (he will get reimbursed for mileage though, yeah!)

3/4 - DS school lunch $4.35; Juice and milk at TRU for DD $10; $125 for DH to register for a conference (out of our own pockets, argh!)

3/5 - DS bowling $16; soda at bowling $2.50; Toys R Us $12.83 for Lego game (this was actually DS’ money though); $24.80 at Bed Bath & Beyond (heating pad and toothpaste, used 2 coupons); $27.08 at Buy Buy Baby (used coupon); $16.99 at JC Penney (got a $200 coat on clearance with 2 coupons, YEAH!...find of the month!); $13 CVS (2 prescriptions); $1.26 Home Depot.

3/6 OK, we're falling off the wagon big time this weekend...
$4.84 Home Depot; $8.55 Stew Leonard’s (beer); $35.58 gas for DH’s car; $19.02 Borders.com (used coupon, got 2 gifts, free shipping); $4.28 Dollar Tree

3/7 $20.25 Whole Foods; $41.28 gas for my van; paid some bills; $19.18 for training pants on Amazon; $25 for birthday gift and a game for my tutoring kids.

3/8…gotta be no-buy #2 or I won’t make it!

3/9

3/10
3/11 - my birthday...anything goes! (Well, within reason, especially because I'm tutoring that day!) DS school lunch too.

3/12 - DS bowling league

3/13

3/14

3/15

3/16

3/17

3/18 - DS school lunch; DH out of town so I'll probably take the kids out to dinner.

3/19 - my play reading; have to provide breakfast & lunch for my actors and keep my kids happy. $$$

3/20

3/21

3/22

3/23

3/24 - DS book fair at school.

3/25 - DS school lunch.

3/26

3/27

3/28

3/29

3/30

3/31


No-buy days: 1/10

Coupon savings: $228.38 so far!

 

[bigmama67]

I'm in. The tricky thing this month will be that I have to figure out where I'm getting daycare $ from, as I now have some part-time tutoring but that decreases my unemployment. I'm starting to figure that out though.

I was under budget in February! I still have a bill to pay though...I'm mailing the check tomorrow.

I don't count buying groceries as spending $ though I do keep track of my grocery spending...so I will aim for 10 no-buy days. My birthday is March 11th and whatever I feel like that day (coffee, Pepsi, Dunkin' Donuts, whatever) I will get, darnit!

3/1: Between yesterday and today, spent $63.18 on groceries from March's budget/$536.82 left (we budget $600 but then again, I need to trim this because of the daycare issue.) DH doctor $15.
I don't count medical or groceries so... $0

3/2: $4.74 on groceries (GREAT deals at Acme!) $15 for some LeapPad cartridges for DD (brand new off Craig's List). $7.41 at A.C. Moore (T-shirt for DS for his show, PipSqueak markers, stickers).

3/3 $8.48 on 2 heater fans at Target (75% off!); $52.66 for groceries (LOTS of good deals again!) $7.99 for a ladybug umbrella for DD (Amazon, free prime shipping); DH spent $1.54 on soda at Rite Aid because he needed $20 cash back on a road trip for work (he will get reimbursed for mileage though, yeah!)

3/4 - DS school lunch $4.35; Juice and milk at TRU for DD $10; $125 for DH to register for a conference (out of our own pockets, argh!)

3/5 - DS bowling $16; soda at bowling $2.50; Toys R Us $12.83 for Lego game (this was actually DS’ money though); $24.80 at Bed Bath & Beyond (heating pad and toothpaste, used 2 coupons); $27.08 at Buy Buy Baby (used coupon); $16.99 at JC Penney (got a $200 coat on clearance with 2 coupons, YEAH!...find of the month!); $13 CVS (2 prescriptions); $1.26 Home Depot.

3/6 OK, we're falling off the wagon big time this weekend...
$4.84 Home Depot; $8.55 Stew Leonard’s (beer); $35.58 gas for DH’s car; $19.02 Borders.com (used coupon, got 2 gifts, free shipping); $4.28 Dollar Tree

3/7 $20.25 Whole Foods; $41.28 gas for my van; paid some bills; $19.18 for training pants on Amazon; $25 for birthday gift and a game for my tutoring kids.

3/8 $0

3/9

3/10

3/11 - my birthday...anything goes! (Well, within reason, especially because I'm tutoring that day!) DS school lunch too.

3/12 - DS bowling league

3/13

3/14

3/15

3/16

3/17

3/18 - DS school lunch; DH out of town so I'll probably take the kids out to dinner.

3/19 - my play reading; have to provide breakfast & lunch for my actors and keep my kids happy. $$$

3/20

3/21

3/22

3/23

3/24 - DS book fair at school.

3/25 - DS school lunch.

3/26

3/27

3/28

3/29

3/30

3/31


No-buy days: 2/10

Coupon savings: $228.38 so far!

 

[SunnieRN]

February 25-March 11:

No buy goal: 7
Cash: $100
Medical:$180/-20 /-75
Groceries:$200/-92

Feb 25: $92 groceries
Feb 26: $0
Feb 27: $0
Feb 28: $0 ( do not count medical costs, just try to contain them )
March 1: $0 have to go to a meeting at work.: they usually put out coffee.
March 2: $12 Subway, picked up my med refills, which I track, but don't count.(I keep forgetting to add that I had $20 cash from something so this didn't come out of my $100/cash).
March 3: $0, I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.
March 4: $0, was going to buy fruit at work last night, but someone bought it for me!! She said, well, I can afford it. I notice you haven't been spending any money lately. I explained about no-buy, then she wanted me to have a no-buy day!
March 5: $0 This was not planned as I really wanted to go to Target, as I need a couple of items, but my punky feeling is a horrible chest cold.
March 6: $0, was going to go buy medicine, but too achy and sneezy. So being lazy, in bed. Maybe tomorrow.
March 7: $0
March 8: $712, can you say shop from home?! I have been telling my Dad I wanted a MacAir. Really Bad, but didn't want to spend that much money. HE PAID 1/2!! Gigantic for my Dad, made me cry!! So, it's on order. This is the man who doesn't believe in Christmas presents and gives us each $20 for our birthdays. Shocking, to say the least!!

No buy goal: 7 / 9 accomplished!

I also am thinking of another huge purchase, but believe it or not, within my budget. I am seriously considering going on medifast. I HAVE to lose weight. Even though it would be hard, I think it would work for me!! It is approx $250 mo. Well within my grocery budet, even with my LG meal daily. (lean and green).