March No Buy..Rolling Into Spring!

[wlake]

SunnieRN, I didn't think that was bragging either! Hope you're having fun with it!

Ronnmel, I'm so glad your dress fit! I'm sorry to hear that your mom won't be at your wedding though. Please post pics!

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:
3/8: $6 groceries (well, ice cream after a tough couple of days) and $5 books
3/9: $10 lunch, $26.50 x2 for school lunches for the boys
3/10:

no buy days: 4/12
longest streak: 3
meals out: 2/5
days without dinner out: 4
longest no dinners out streak: 10
non-consumable items purchased: 2/0 (2 books)

 

[charming23]

SunnieRN, I think it is lovely that your dad offered to help buy you something you wanted. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

I have read along, but it's too much to comment on. The most recent post I could find of my tracking is from the 6th!

1: $0!
2: $12.41 iTunes, Walgreens
3: $1.49 Burger King (5.49), found 4.00 in the street
4: $0! found 0.25 in the street
5: $22.47 gas ($3.35/g ), McDonald's
6: $0!
7: $82.03 Rouses, CVS, Cane's, Girl Scout Cookies
8: $13.15 Popeyes (Mardi Gras!)
9: $35.99 McDonald's, car wash, hair cut
10: $0!


$0 Days: 4
Spending: $167.29/$475 = 35%
Days Passed: 10/31 = 32%
$0 Days/Passed: 4/10 = 40%

My Goal: To keep spending to within $475 for food, gas, and miscellaneous. I do not track bills; I only track "point of sale" transactions.

 

[h2oophelia]

It's a no buy day....but it doesn't feel like it. Went for my six month check-up/cleaning at the dentist today. I mentioned to him that my bite has been feeling weird for about 7 months. Not painful, just weird. He investigated and informed me that my bite has changed from clenching/grinding at night! So he recommends getting braces (invisalign) before my bite gets worse. $3000-$4500!!! I'm pretty sure there will be some clenching/grinding tonight due to stress!! Boo.

Goals:
No buy: 12 days
Eating out: 1/4
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
3/8 $0
3/9 $18.02 Papa John's school fundraiser
3/10 $0

No Buy days: 5/12

 

[ronnmel]

SunnieRN, I too did not think you were bragging. It's nice when our parents surprise us in a good way, especially if it's out of character.

Yay, ronnmel, enjoy your gown and how nice to take pictures with you mom. Sorry she's sick.

I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. I love the idea of doing a photoshoot with her. How fun to try on the dress. When is the wedding? It seems like it is getting close....We are all going to want to see a picture.

Ronnmel, I'm so glad your dress fit! I'm sorry to hear that your mom won't be at your wedding though. Please post pics!

Thanks everyone! The wedding is May 4th (see my first ticker), and it will be in Cuba. I am sad that my mom can't travel with us, especially since it will be her birthday that week too. But I am glad I get to do this photoshoot with her. It will be beachy themed, just like the real wedding.

I have talked about more wedding details in my PTR, if you are interested. However, to see a picture of my dress, you can either wait until after the wedding, or send me a PM. I can't post it here as my fiancé sometimes checks this site.



Oops, forgot that I stopped to get food and litter for my cats today. Not a no-buy day after all.


No Buy Days : 5/12
Gas : 72$ (max 120$ Raising the max due to higher gas prices)
Groceries : 55$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 40$ (max 100$)
Non-necessities : 225$ (max 300$)

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$
03/08 : 118$ (dinner, passport, and a few little things)
03/09 : 79$ (gas + long overdue windshield wipers)
03/10 : 55$

 

[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.


March 8 $40 gas, $11 landfill run. I also got my hair cut, but I paid for that out of my shower winnings!

March 9


March 10 $16 ticket to the local children's museum
5/14 No Buys

 

[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

March 8th - $0 -

March 9th - (Groceries) $7.63

March 10th - (Household) - $31.49 - DH stopped to get softener salt and didn't tell me - I'm going to go back to my original plan and do $400 groc and $100 household - instead of $425 and $75 Or I may just lump them all together for $500 and say it's the Groc/household fund - I may have a control issue
(Cub Scout Donation) $19.23 - DH is the Cubmaster and our pack is hurting for money this year, so he stopped to buy Blue and Gold Banquet Decortations out of our pocket - so I'm just putting this under "extras not budgeted", which I have no set limit for - I just make sure it's an absolute "necessity" and not just a whim....


$229.21/$400 Groc.
$61.90/$150 Gas
$79.53/$100 Household

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $957.29
$0 Days:4/14 Got 13 no buys last month, trying to up it to one more.

Groceries ($279-$9/day)- $86.90
Eating Out ($217-$7/day)- $92.68
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), (3/8-$37.45 $3.64/gal)= $89.69

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)
8- $.59 (Dominick's-Groceries), $5.04 (Meijer-Groceries), $6.59 (Chipotle-Eating Out)
9- $0
10-$0
11- Dominick's, Meijer, CVS, Walgreens


Budget: $1552....62%
Month: 10/31: 32%
No Buy: 4/14: 29%

My savings from coupons and sales: $492.48

 

[SunnieRN]

Thanks Sunnie. I did not take you telling us about your gift as bragging at all. My mom just sent me $500 so I could come home for a visit before I started my new job. She has never done that before, and I did not ask. As you said, she wanted to do it for me. Your dad sounds lovely.

Thank you so much!! I am so happy you get to see family and recharge. It was the unexpected and loving way my Dad surpeised me that made this so exciting to me!! When is your trip?

Got to try on my wedding dress for my fitting today.
I was a bit nervous about it, seeing as I gained 15 pounds since I bought it (I'm small, so 15 pounds is a lot on me), but it fits perfectly. All they need to do is adjust the strap and shorten the dress. It should be ready in 3 weeks, just in time for a photoshoot with my mom (she can't make it to the wedding anymore because she is sick).

Your wedding sounds like it is going to be spectacular!! I M SO SORRY YOUR MOM WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO! I think you are wonderful to do the photoshoot now, so she has a chance to be a part of your wedding in this way!! Is someone videtaping the wedding for you? You will be a bautiful bride!!

Yikes! It didn't sound like you were bragging at all... I'd be happy as well. Enjoy the gift.

Yay, ronnmel, enjoy your gown and how nice to take pictures with you mom. Sorry she's sick.

Thank you QVC Shopper!! I usually would try to overlook an email like that, but I admire you all for all that you do and the continuing support of this thread, to help me reach my goals!

SunnieRN, I didn't think that was bragging either! Hope you're having fun with it!

Ronnmel, I'm so glad your dress fit! I'm sorry to hear that your mom won't be at your wedding though. Please post pics!

Thank you so much!!! So sweet of you to take the time to respond!!

SunnieRN, I think it is lovely that your dad offered to help buy you something you wanted. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

Thank you Charming!! It was truly a shock in the most wonderful way!! It just amazes me how it makes me smile to think how far out of his way he went to do this for me!!

SunnieRN, I too did not think you were bragging. It's nice when our parents surprise us in a good way, especially if it's out of character. .

Thank you!! My Dad is the MOST frugal person I know! That's why I think I was so pleasantly shocked!!

Thank you so much everyone!! I feel so much better and would NEVER want to offend any of you at anytime!






Thanks everyone! The wedding is May 4th (see my first ticker), and it will be in Cuba. I am sad that my mom can't travel with us, especially since it will be her birthday that week too. But I am glad I get to do this photoshoot with her. It will be beachy themed, just like the real wedding.

I have talked about more wedding details in my PTR, if you are interested. However, to see a picture of my dress, you can either wait until after the wedding, or send me a PM. I can't post it here as my fiancé sometimes checks this site. :[/QUOTE]

Ps, I would LOVE a pm of you in your dress!!!!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Debbie, thanks SO much for understanding!! I got a pm from someone who stated I need to stop bragging. It wasn't the present or the price that mattered to me. It was the fact that my Dad wanted to do it for me! I will say that it IS something I really wanted and was saving for! And Happiest of Birthday wishes for your daughter!!!!

Virgderon. I unfortunately think your attitude is wise, but I believe in miracles and really hope and pray this will be one for you!!

MMOT, you are smart!! Not having him tell you the day he is jumping, would keep me sane also!

Oh my goodness, I didn't take it that way AT ALL!!! That makes me sad, cause we have never been a thread like that. We all support each other and would be happy for our No Buy friends if they got such a nice gift. Plus, you mentioned it ONCE. I am sorry if anyone made you feel like that, but as yo usee your no buy friends are happy for you!

And yes, I think it will make me feel better to hear "I did it!" then "I'm about to do it."

 

[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...
March 8-$0 I did have to go pick up DD11's allergy meds, starting early this year. But I don't count meds. $13
March 9-$0 I was taking the kids to Family Night tonight cause DH was working really late, but I found a gift certificate that had expired a year and a half ago in an old purse. I asked if they would take it and they said sure! I got back $.69 too!!!
March 10-$0 I got free movie passes again last night for Batle:LA. It wasn't my thing so I offered to watch DH's friends kids so the boys could go. His friend declined cause the kids would be up so late so I went with him. Would have rather played with the kids, the movie stunk, but as always, I did love the company. DH agreed with me this time, the movie was bad. BUT, we didn't pay so NBD.

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No Buy Days- 7/18

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Groceries- $60ish $19 $8.44
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

 

[nunzia]

Debbie, thanks SO much for understanding!! I got a pm from someone who stated I need to stop bragging. It wasn't the present or the price that mattered to me. It was the fact that my Dad wanted to do it for me! I will say that it IS something I really wanted and was saving for! And Happiest of Birthday wishes for your daughter!!!!

Virgderon. I unfortunately think your attitude is wise, but I believe in miracles and really hope and pray this will be one for you!!

MMOT, you are smart!! Not having him tell you the day he is jumping, would keep me sane also!

WHAT!!?? How awful. Sounds like jealousy to me..sheesh..I'm sorry

 

[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 7: 24.34 Amazon (2 pop up Harry Potter books and baby gift..had $10 off coupon
Mar 8: $20.00 gas..ack, $3.67 PhotoPass pictures developed at Walgreens
Mar 9: $3.57 movie rental
Mar 10: $18.00 dinner out with friends


$510.29/$800.00 remaining

 

[budafam]

What a great idea. I normally budget $60 a week for groceries but we did a trip to Sam's Club at the beginning of the month and blew $90 so I've had $30 for the next 2 weeks (got through one week only spending $15!!!) so here I am with $15 left till next Friday... ugh!

 

[Tiggerish]

Happy Birthday bigmama67.

 

[charming23]

Like a crazy person mom and I went out this morning so she could get her preadmission teasting done for her eye surgery on Tuesday. They had an unexpected opening in the schedule so it was all last minute. We went right there and came home as the weather is horrible.

The best news of the day is that her cateract surgery is going to be paid for in full. She does not currently have vision and her health insurance sucks so it was going to be a lot of money up front that we could just not afford at the moment. So they set her up with financial aid at the hospital and she qualifies to have the surgery paid for because she is retired and on a limited income.

March 2011 Budget
Grocery/Household- $300/$102.93 Left
Car/Gas- $50/$21.25 Left
Eating out -$50/$31.30 Left
Entertainment/Misc- $100/ $66.86 left

Total- $500/$222.34 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- $0
3/9- $95.02 Grocery, $22.89 Misc, and $28.75 Gas
3/10- $20.59 Groceries/household
3/11- $0
3/12
3/13
3/14

6/15 No Buy Days

Coupon/Store Savings- $89.78

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $1076
$0 Days:4/14 Got 13 no buys last month, trying to up it to one more.

Groceries ($279-$9/day)- $98.11
Eating Out ($217-$7/day)- $92.68
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($806-$26/day) two trips by train, Great America season pass installment $795.52
Gas $250- (3/1-$23.69), (3/6-$28.55), (3/8-$37.45 $3.64/gal)= $89.69

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)
8- $.59 (Dominick's-Groceries), $5.04 (Meijer-Groceries), $6.59 (Chipotle-Eating Out)
9- $0
10-$0
11- $107.50 (Signed up Hubby and I for 5K in October), $3.39 (Dominick's-Groceries), $2.86 (Meijer-Groceries), $1.73 (Walgreens-Groceries), $3.23 (Aldi's-Groceries)


Budget: $1552....69%
Month: 11/31: 35%
No Buy: 4/14: 29%

My savings from coupons and sales: $614.53

Next Month: 2nd half of our airplane tickets, Get car fixed...

 

[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...
March 8-$0 I did have to go pick up DD11's allergy meds, starting early this year. But I don't count meds. $13
March 9-$0 I was taking the kids to Family Night tonight cause DH was working really late, but I found a gift certificate that had expired a year and a half ago in an old purse. I asked if they would take it and they said sure! I got back $.69 too!!!
March 10-$0 I got free movie passes again last night for Batle:LA. It wasn't my thing so I offered to watch DH's friends kids so the boys could go. His friend declined cause the kids would be up so late so I went with him. Would have rather played with the kids, the movie stunk, but as always, I did love the company. DH agreed with me this time, the movie was bad. BUT, we didn't pay so NBD.
March 11-$0 Calling it early. Dh had his card league tonight, DD16 is out with friends, and I might be tempted to take the kids out. BUT, we have food here and they need to clean their room so going to stay in tonight so we can enjoy the rest of the weekend.

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No Buy Days- 8/18

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Groceries- $60ish $19 $8.44
Gas-

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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

 

[Tiggerish]

The March budget is $700 with 12 no spend days.

Auto $50
Eating Out/Entertainment $100 / $78 left
Giving $10
Groceries/Household Goods $250 / $223 left
Medical $25
Misc. $75 /$21 left
Set bills $205 / $175 left

No spend days 12 /6
Coupon savings $15.55
Christmas 2011 $8
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2/1 $0
2/2 $0
2/3 $0
2/4 Misc. $27
3/5 Groceries $22
3/6 Set bills $30 (church); Eating out $4
3/7 Eating out $18
3/8 $0
3/9 $0
3/10 $27 Misc. (copying, faxing and printer ink)
3/11 $0

 

[Virgderon]

Charming, what great news! That is what government aid should be used for. I'm glad it worked out. Sunnie, I agree with Micky Mom that our thread has never been about judging each other. I have made some bad financial decisions, and I have had things happen that I could not control, but this is one thread where I feel "safe" that I will not be judged. Let's keep it that way everyone.

Happy birthday bigmama!

Bought a nice professional dress today for only $15 at Ross. I really have nothing to wear to my new job, so I am shopping, but with caution.

Running Total: Spent $215
$900 budget... $685 left
$0 Days: 4
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings :70

Groceries budget- $250-3-52-47= 148 left

March 1: 22
March 2 : 0
March 3: 52 ( groceries)
March 4: 0
March 5: 11 ( Walgreens pop, cooking supplies)
March 6 : 22 ( cleaning supplies )
March 7 : 0
March 8: 18 ( 13 Walgreens, 5 snack at bowling)
March 9 : 0
March 10: 48 ( Publix)
March 11: 43 ( 15 dress, 28 gas)