May No Buy - Let's Do This!

[NY Pirate Princess]

GOAL 15 no buy days. Look out May, I'm coming to get you!

May 1 - NO BUY #1
May 2 - groceries
May 3 - personal care items and storage bin
May 4 - pool supplies
May 5 - NO BUY #2
May 6 - NO BUY #3
May 7- Gas
May 8 - Pool opening, mothers day flowers, camper registration
May 9 - Groceries, ice cream
May 10 - NO BUY #4
May 11 - NO BUY #5
May 12 - NO BUY #6
May 13 - NO BUY #7
May 14 - $1 to school store, $3 coffee
May 15 - NO BUY #8
May 16 - Glorious consumption!
May 17 - Spend
May 18 - Spend
May 19 - NO BUY #9
May 20 - camping supplies, gas, kid clothes
May 21 - NO BUY #10
May 22 - Camping dinner out
May 23 - NO BUY #11
May 24 - NO BUY #12
May 25 - groceries for the week! Great camping trip.

11/15 6 more days, 4 days of not buying...I CAN DO THIS!

 

[Goofy'slady]

5/1 - NO BUY
5/2 - groceries, $90. (under budget)
5/3 - Cards and flowers for few friends for Mother's Day $20 (not to shabby), commuter pass for work for the week 16.50
5/4 - My youngest has a dental appointment where she's getting three baby teeth removed so I may have to stop past the store to get pain reliever
5/5 - NO BUY
5/6 - NO BUY
5/7 - NO BUY
5/8 - NO BUY
5/9 - Groceries, $ 85 (under budget again!!!)
5/10 - Mother's Day movie for 3 $27, Mother's Day dinner plus tip for 3 $86, work commuter pass for the week 16.50
5/11 - NO BUY
5/12 - NO BUY
5/13 - Senior Picture Appt for my daughter (even though she isn't a senior til fall) $55, Breakfast supplies for welcome breakfast for new team member $15 (who's idea was this...oh yeah, MINE. Stupid, stupid, stupid!) Payment on August trip to WDW $1000.00 (just one more small one and it's PIF)
5/15 - NO BUY
5/16 - Groceries & household goods $151, Summer clothes and flip flops for youngest DD $63, Brow threading $15, Earrings for oldest DD to wear to wedding $13
5/17 - Groceries (the few items I forgot the day before) $23
5/18 - Weekly work commuter pass $16.50
5/19 - NO BUY
5/20 - Jewelry to wear to niece's wedding $30.00
5/21 - NO BUY
5/22 - The demise of my wallet begins - my niece's wedding weekend begins. Hair appointment for eldest daughter and I $140, pedicure for eldest daughter and I $60
5/23 - WEDDING DAY! Hair appointment for youngest $70.00, Makeup artist for just me $200, hotel for one night $153, car rental $72, wedding gift $200
5/24 - Lunch for me and the girls with out of town family from the wedding $60, Target run $114, cheap bottle of wine $15, pizza delivery + tip for dinner for family who where staying with me and my girls $37
5/25 - Groceries $134
5/26 - Weekly commuter pass $16.50 and lunch $8, Old Navy purchase for new shorts and bikini for eldest daughter and bikini for me $159

I'm soooo glad this wedding over - during the last few months till now I've spent $1200 to attend. I'm ready to move onto June where I fear my wallet will again meet it's demise because BOTH of my girls are June birthday girls.

 

[Sereina]

1 - Spend. Got some clearance deals at Half Price Books and fries at Five Guys
2 - No Buy #1
3 - No Buy #2
4 - Vitamins
5 - Birthday Gift for Mom
6 - Art Supplies on Amazon
7 - No Buy #3
8 - No Buy #4
9 - Spend.
10 - More birthday gift for mom and a summer hat and bag for myself. I'd been waiting for a good sale, so I don't feel too bad about this one!
11 - No Buy #5
12 - Ran to the store for arrowroot powder.
13 - Gift
14 - Spend.
15 - No Buy #6
16 - Trader Joe's.
17 - New shoes for work (my old ones wore out) and supplies for a project.
18 - No buy #7
19 - Journal I've been wanting for months.
20 - Another Trader Joe's run.
21 - No buy #8
22 - No Buy #9
23 - Lemons. I was craving lemonade.
24 - Snacks.
25 - No Buy #10
26 - No Buy #11
27 - No Buy #12

12/25 no buy days

 

[charming23]

playing catch up. I just barely made my goal for the month.

5/1- $22.98 Take out as I was too tired to cook
5/2- $0
5/3- $0
5/4- $4.89 Chick fil a (breakfast), $65.70 Dinner out for my aunts birthday, and $81.93 Bj's
5/5- $0
5/6- $98.99 Target (pharmacy and house stuff)
5/7- $0
5/8- $0
5/9- $37.45 Target (mothers day gifts) and $144.19 Giant Eagle (grocery and gift cards)
5/10- $45.67 Dinner out for Mother's Day (we also saw a movie but used 2 free tickets and a gift card for popcorn)
5/11- $0
5/12- $0
5/13- $19.05 Jo Ann Fabrics, $22.45 Dinner out and $47.89 Target. I also got myself a new iPad mini 3 but used birthday money to buy it.
5/14- $0
5/15- $18.88 pizza and $45.67 Target
5/16- $0
5/17- $0
5/18- $4.89 Chick fil a and $78.19 Giant Eagle
5/19- $4.89 Chick fil a
5/20- $0
5/21- $9.98 Chick fil a and $67.89 Aldi
5/22- $0
5/23- $106.18 Target and $4.04 Wendy's
5/24- $0
5/25- $0
5/26- $67.89 Target
5/27- $0

15/15 No Buy Days

 

[NY Pirate Princess]

GOAL 15 no buy days. Look out May, I'm coming to get you!

May 1 - NO BUY #1
May 2 - groceries
May 3 - personal care items and storage bin
May 4 - pool supplies
May 5 - NO BUY #2
May 6 - NO BUY #3
May 7- Gas
May 8 - Pool opening, mothers day flowers, camper registration
May 9 - Groceries, ice cream
May 10 - NO BUY #4
May 11 - NO BUY #5
May 12 - NO BUY #6
May 13 - NO BUY #7
May 14 - $1 to school store, $3 coffee
May 15 - NO BUY #8
May 16 - Glorious consumption!
May 17 - Spend
May 18 - Spend
May 19 - NO BUY #9
May 20 - camping supplies, gas, kid clothes
May 21 - NO BUY #10
May 22 - Camping dinner out
May 23 - NO BUY #11
May 24 - NO BUY #12
May 25 - groceries for the week! Great camping trip.
May 26 - Anniversary card, shirt for kid
May 27 - NO BUY #13 9 year wedding anniversary!!!!
May 28 - Dinner out for anniversary
May 29 - NO BUY #14

14/15 ...Two weekend days left. Can I not open my wallet on one of them?

 

[SafferMom]

Not sure I will make it. A combination of my brothers wedding and the school fair has really dented my budget

1 - No Buy #1
2 - Spend. Went on a hike and then a BBQ at a friends house so had to get some supplies for that.
3 - No Buy #2
4 - Spend. Groceries
5 - Spend. DS8 had a dentist appointment
6 - Spend. Had to get our water purifier serviced and DH bought a very expensive suit and pair of shoes for my brothers wedding
7 - Spend. Groceries and some wine that just jumped into my trolley.
8 - No Buy #3
9 - Spend. Supplies for ds8 market day stall and groceries for Mother's Day lunch
10 - No Buy #4
11 - Spend. Bought some inexpensive costume jewelry to wear to my brothers wedding
12 - Spend. New school uniform for Ds8
13 - Spend. Never ending wedding purchases
14 - No Buy #5
15 - No Buy #6
16 - No Buy #7
17 - No Buy #8
18 - Spend. Groceries and take out for dinner
19 - Spend. Some snacks at dd11 netball match
20 - Calling it a spend now as my whole family is coming for dinner so will need to buy groceries to cook dinner.
21 - No Buy #9
22 - Spend. Supplies for our grade stall at our school fair next weekend and groceries AGAIN!
23 - Spend. Supplies for DS8 school market day (why did our school schedule their annual fair AND a grade market day in same week!) Also bought a gift for a friends birthday
24 - Spend. Went to movies with my mom and kids. Purchased a few fresh vegetables so now should have enough food for the coming week so am hopeful I will be able to have a few no buy days this week
25 - No Buy #10
26 - Spend. Groceries and Amazon purchases
27 - No Buy #11
28 - Spend. Groceries and some medicine for an employee
29 - Spend. Supplies for our school fair stall. Dinner ingredients
30 - Calling it now. Spend. It's school fair and we all know how much we spend there




11/12 No Buy Days

 

[wlake]

I'm not sure where the last week and an half went….

My goal for May is 15 no buy days, which is going to be tough with conflicting/competing sports schedules for the boys and getting our garden up and running (lots of seeds to buy!).
May 1: take out for dinner
May 2: wholesale club, gas
May 3: ice cream, groceries
May 4: teacher gift
May 5: dinner
May 6: no buy #1
May 7: no buy #2
May 8: lunch/dinner money for DS's trip
May 9: groceries, Target trip, race entry fee
May 10: no buy #3
May 11: no buy #4
May 12: no buy #5
May 13: no buy #6
May 14: gas
May 15: snacks for hungry boys, pharmacy
May 16: no buy #7
May 17: race fees (but not the ER copay -- I'm not counting it!)
May 18: groceries
May 19: ice cream
May 20: groceries
May 21: no buy #8
May 22: dinner
May 23: haircuts, Target, gas, plants, seeds
May 24: groceries
May 25: no buy #9
May 26: concession stand snacks
May 27: no buy #10
May 28: things for work
May 29: no buy #11

Getting better here at the end!

goal: 11/15
non-consumable items purchased: 0/0 (boys' clothes don't count!)

 

[Sereina]

1 - Spend. Got some clearance deals at Half Price Books and fries at Five Guys
2 - No Buy #1
3 - No Buy #2
4 - Vitamins
5 - Birthday Gift for Mom
6 - Art Supplies on Amazon
7 - No Buy #3
8 - No Buy #4
9 - Spend.
10 - More birthday gift for mom and a summer hat and bag for myself. I'd been waiting for a good sale, so I don't feel too bad about this one!
11 - No Buy #5
12 - Ran to the store for arrowroot powder.
13 - Gift
14 - Spend.
15 - No Buy #6
16 - Trader Joe's.
17 - New shoes for work (my old ones wore out) and supplies for a project.
18 - No buy #7
19 - Journal I've been wanting for months.
20 - Another Trader Joe's run.
21 - No buy #8
22 - No Buy #9
23 - Lemons. I was craving lemonade.
24 - Snacks.
25 - No Buy #10
26 - No Buy #11
27 - No Buy #12
28 - No Buy #13
29 - Books at Goodwill and lunch Trader Joe's

12/25 no buy days

 

[dromio42]

I'm in! I am aiming for 16 no buy days, including regular expenses like gas and groceries. I am not including using gift cards. This will be a strange month for gift cards; we have been saving them up to use from May 18-June 26. I am directing a play at work for that time and my husband is in it. Every other time, I have tried to cook ahead and freeze (which I do a lot and like to do), but I just can't seem to make it work while I am directing. So, this time I am trying to use up everything thing in the fridge before it starts and then only buy take out (with gift cards) and whatever else we will eat. I am hoping this saves more than my last attempt where I
pre-bought food and then did take out...boo.

May 1: $50 on groceries
May 2: no buy!
May 3: crap-tons of money spent. we finally upgraded to smart phones...and you need a case...plus about 40 in groceries
May 4: no buy!
May 5: no buy!!
May 6:groceries for dinner
May 7: bought dinner (13) but nothing extra and we have leftover for lunch
May 8: wanted to be a no buy - instead buying medications to get rid of cold/flu stuff
May 9: no buy! (being home sick helped)
May 10: summer shoes on line (being home sick has led to on line self pity shopping)
May 11: some groceries for dinner, a new bag on line (needed) and a gazillion dollars of repairs on my husbands car
May 12:no buy!
May 13: groceries
May 14: no buy!
May 15:no buy
May 16:target
May 17:lots of groceries
May 18:no buy
May 19:no buy
May 20:meds
May 21:no buy
May 22:shoes
May 23:groceries
May 24: no buy
May 25: grocieries
May 26: no buy
May 27: no buy
May 28: no buy
May 29:dinner
May 30: chicken for dinner
May 31: no buy

14/16

so close!

 

[NY Pirate Princess]

GOAL 15 no buy days. Look out May, I'm coming to get you!

May 1 - NO BUY #1
May 2 - groceries
May 3 - personal care items and storage bin
May 4 - pool supplies
May 5 - NO BUY #2
May 6 - NO BUY #3
May 7- Gas
May 8 - Pool opening, mothers day flowers, camper registration
May 9 - Groceries, ice cream
May 10 - NO BUY #4
May 11 - NO BUY #5
May 12 - NO BUY #6
May 13 - NO BUY #7
May 14 - $1 to school store, $3 coffee
May 15 - NO BUY #8
May 16 - Glorious consumption!
May 17 - Spend
May 18 - Spend
May 19 - NO BUY #9
May 20 - camping supplies, gas, kid clothes
May 21 - NO BUY #10
May 22 - Camping dinner out
May 23 - NO BUY #11
May 24 - NO BUY #12
May 25 - groceries for the week! Great camping trip.
May 26 - Anniversary card, shirt for kid
May 27 - NO BUY #13 9 year wedding anniversary!!!!
May 28 - Dinner out for anniversary
May 29 - NO BUY #14
May 30 - Suit for husband for wedding in three weeks, HOME for three at the cheap seat theater ($2 a ticket!)
May 31 - NO BUY #15

I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT! I have no idea how much money I saved because my whole spending plan is out of whack right now, but I know it has got to be some major savings. SO PROUD!!!

 

[Shughart]

I started one for June http://www.disboards.com/threads/june-no-buy.3415716/

 

[pjlla]

I did not mean to totally bail out here at the end of the month. Gonna check my calendar in my first post and update it see how I did!...............P

ETA: I did it!!! I was aiming for 15 No-buy days and made it to 18!! Off to look for the June No-Buy thread! Thanks for the link!!....................P

 

[wlake]

To wrap up the month:

My goal for May is 15 no buy days, which is going to be tough with conflicting/competing sports schedules for the boys and getting our garden up and running (lots of seeds to buy!).
May 1: take out for dinner
May 2: wholesale club, gas
May 3: ice cream, groceries
May 4: teacher gift
May 5: dinner
May 6: no buy #1
May 7: no buy #2
May 8: lunch/dinner money for DS's trip
May 9: groceries, Target trip, race entry fee
May 10: no buy #3
May 11: no buy #4
May 12: no buy #5
May 13: no buy #6
May 14: gas
May 15: snacks for hungry boys, pharmacy
May 16: no buy #7
May 17: race fees (but not the ER copay -- I'm not counting it!)
May 18: groceries
May 19: ice cream
May 20: groceries
May 21: no buy #8
May 22: dinner
May 23: haircuts, Target, gas, plants, seeds
May 24: groceries
May 25: no buy #9
May 26: concession stand snacks
May 27: no buy #10
May 28: things for work
May 29: no buy #11
May 30: errands
May 31: gas

Oh well -- that's why there's next month!

goal: 11/15
non-consumable items purchased: 0/0 (boys' clothes don't count!)