April 1- School Fundaiser Night at Chuck E Cheese $19.06
New Moon DVD, socks for Easter Baskets and popcorn for resale at
Walmart $20.36 ($5.40 for the popcorn.)
Total- $39.42 paid out
April 2- $0 ~~~I am counting this as a $0 spend day because all I spent on was taking my DD8 to the eye doctor ($60 copay) and because her eye is not getting better they had to patch it, so $12 for a patch. This to me is the same as a morgage, insurance and all that. It is a necessity. So while I am writing it down for my benefit to know where the money went, I am calling today a no spend day. Total- $72.96 It was a day off from school so I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to do something with them, but we played outside (it was 86 today) and made peanut butter playdough (like at Coral Reef.)
April 3- Busy Day but financially not too bad. We did 3 eggs hunts (town, Adventure Landing and Girl Scouts) and 2 free crafts (Michael's and Home Depot) and played at the park.
$5 Donation to Make a Wish
$1.50 for a mid day slush for the kids (it was 88 degrees in upstate NY!)
$10 gas
$19.38 pizza for dinner
$1.08 New Moon DVD(second copy, this one is for charity.)
$4.50 New Disney Family Stickers for the van, mine are beyond peeling. This is not a necessity, I know, but I bought them anyway. I got them off eBay for a lot less then the ones I bought in Disney.
Total- $41.46
April 4-
Walmart (razors and medicine) $18
Easter Dinner Out (with coupons) $24
Ice Cream for Dessert $3
Groceries $99
Total- $144
April 5- $0
April 6-
$61.95 Produce and meat (shopping on Easter night, these dept. were lacking)
$109 dance tuition
$11 Recital Trophies
$15 gas
Total- $196.95
April 7- $0
April 8- $0 Day 4, so how do we get that $20, Paypal???
April 9- $0
April 10-
Gas- $48.68
Best Buy (DH's B-day gifts)-$124.18
Target(spring clothes)-$117.23
Lunch for the kids- $3.24
Target (spring clothes)- $38.56
Target (spring clothes)- $26.29
Little Cesears (dinner)- $13.98
Lowes (new grill and cover)- $194.95
Ulta (my makeup)-$27.00
Total-$594.11
April11-
Longhorn Steakhouse (DH's b-day lunch)- $38.37
Bed, Bath, Beyond (Mother's Day gifts on clearance, Keurig Mini for travel for DH and a big box of Keurig cups)- $76.10
Marshalls' (clothes for me)- $20.79
Wegman's (groceries)- $28.57
Total-$163.83
April 12-
$60-X-Ray copay DD (Hand not broken!
)
$15.98- 10 pair of Mudd Sunglasses (couldn't resist)
Total- $75.98
April 13-
$15.69- Dinner Date with hubby
$103.30- Wegman's Groceries
Total- $118.99
April 14- $14 DD8's ssoftball uniform came in. UGGG, and it was finally going to be a $0 day. This has been a bad month for me.
April 15- $0 FINALLY!!! After I recorded this for the day, my evening go crazy. The kids came home with a ton of homework, I had just finished picking up my house for my Girl Scout meeting at my house and in setting up the craft I splattered permanent paint all over myself (thank goodness I was in my work clothes. I always dress to be painted on since I am a preschool aid.) But I had a huge mess to clean up and it left me 20 minutes to cook, serve and have dinner be eaten. While I was scrambling to clean up the mess I had made, DH said let him just go get a pizza. I said NOOOOOO, I finally got a $0 day. I can do this! So we didn't have chicken enchiladas as planned, but we made chicken nachos. Not as healthy, but still very yummy and I didn't spend a penny!!!
April 16- $0
I will try and record for tomorrow. No promises. We are heading out on vacation tomorrow for the week. We will be visiting grandma and grandpa so some money will be spent but not a crazy amount. I probably will loose track while gone for a week but I will try to keep track. We are not going to be too worried about being good. I want the kids to have fun, but since doing this we have all gotten better about enjoying while not being too frivilous.
Tomorrow I will get a few things for my DH and DD15 for while we are gone (they aren't going.) And we have a few things we need to get before we leave. So tomorrow will not be a $0 day.
Total No Buy Days--- 7
Total Spent- $1690.51
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. It all started with an email from my favorite Utah discount site, citydeals.com. Dang them. They offer local business gift cards at a discounted price and today only they had free shipping and an extra 15% off. So needless to say I spent $17, but I got $45 in gift cards 
I also decided to hit up the Macy's sale and spent $10.47 there. I got DH a couple of cool T shirts for our up coming trip. I don't think I'm doing too bad though. The month is half over and I still have more than half of my budget left. Here's to saving!!
) Wow, i really went NUTS with the shopping on Friday! I think its because I'm stressed out & shopping when I'm stressed is....well, it's how I deal. Plus, honestly, I really enjoy shopping!!
