No Buy April- come join us!

[MickeyMomOfThree]

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


Total No Buy Days--- 1

Total Spent- $156.84 (minus $72.96 medical) = $83.88

Wish tomorrow would be a no spend day, but after the day we had with the kids, DH and I were too tired to go out. We were going to go and buy a new grill and stuff for dinner tomorrow. We were just too tired so tomorrow afternoon we will be buying a new grill and dnner things. I jsut couldn't pull myself off the couch to do it tonight.

 

[Figment's Girl]

4/1-$5.73 Money spent on Forgotten Lunch
4/2-$79.34 Groceries (-4.34)
4/3-$6 and change for a 'miracle' shoe polish my husband had to have and $5.35 for lunch out because we were in a rush to run errands and get back before kids get home from Grandma's.

 

[Tiggerish]

The budget is $700 and 10 no spend days.

Automobile $75
Eating Out/Entertainment $75 / $57 left
Giving $120
Groceries/Household Goods $250 / $233 left
Medical $15
Misc. $165 / $124 left
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4/1 Groceries $8
4/2 Eating out $19
4/3 Groceries $9; Misc. $21 for printer ink

 

[bisone]

I'm a newbie, but I have followed the no buy threads for a couple of months. We have a trip coming up in June so I would like to take the next couple of months to save up a little extra. We do our household budget weekly(fri-thurs), so I will plan weekly here(it will be easier on me). I would like to shoot for 10 no buy days for the month. My first week will be 4/2-4/8. Here is the plan for the week:
25 - gas
125 - groceries/household - ZERO
25 - dog
50 - misc - 6

4/2 - Sams (42.56), Target (12.83), Aldi (17.32), Wal-mart (81.13), DD (5.00)
4/3 - Taco Bell (11.15) I really didn't want to do this, but we were so busy getting ready for Easter

 

[vickiemariko]

Happy Easter!! I'm pretty sure I'm not spending today so I'm posting this early. We went to see How to Train Your Dragon yesterday in I-Max 3D. I had 3 free movie passes from the Genermills cereal boxes We did end up having to pay $2 for the I-Max upgrade and I bought popcorn. I suppose I justified the popcorn purchase since the movie was basically free.

April 1- $5.99 crocs for DD6
April 2- $1.39 @ grocery store for TP, eggs, and produce. I had $15 in catalina coupons so that really helped me stick to my list. I wanted to spend as little oop as possible.
April 3- $8.50 movie popcorn
April 4- $0

Total- $15.88
Left to Spend- $434.12

 

[charming23]

Happy Easter!!!

Groceries/Household- $250/ $205.00 left
Gas/Car- $50
Entertainment/Eating Out- $75/ $50.23 Left
Misc/Emergency- $75/ $51

Total- $450/ $356.23 Left

2/15 No Buy Days

4/1- $45.00 Groceries
4/2- $0
4/3- $24.77 Dinner Out and $24 Office Max
4/4- $0

 

[Tiggerish]

The budget is $700 and 10 no spend days.

Automobile $75
Eating Out/Entertainment $75 / $57 left
Giving $120 / $100
Groceries/Household Goods $250 / $209 left
Medical $15
Misc. $165 / $124 left
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4/1 Groceries $8
4/2 Eating out $19
4/3 Groceries $9; Misc. $21 for printer ink
4/4 Giving $20 (church); Groceries $24

Happy Easter every one. My Easter dinner company stayed so long that I had to run out to the grocery for frozen pizza and soda to feed them a second meal.

 

[VirataMama4]

Happy Easter!

I finally got my first $0 day!

4/4- $0

 

[bas71873]

Yay. My first no buy. Thank you Easter

4/1 - $17.55 on meds for dog (hopefully a 1 time purchase)

4/2 – $65 - $38 at Target (hair dryer (my blew up yesterday), Drano ($3.69), then I hit the Easter aisle. THIS IS MY PROBLEM AND WHY I JOINED THIS THREAD!!!!!); $17 lunch out with DH; and $10 Pup-n-Sudz to give the dog a bath

4/3 – $87 - $40 at Kroger for last minute items for family Easter dinner, milk, steak for dinner tonight (which I forgot during my last trip in March) and fresh flowers. I just needed some fresh flowers in my life; $47 – newspaper subscription renewal

4/4 – $0 (Happy Easter)

 

[QVCshopper]

Had a great time in Baltimore--not counting that toward the no-buy, but we didn't buy anything extra. Also, I'm enjoying not tracking gas...

No-buys: 2/15

4/1-$0
4/2-$10 gift for nephew; $3.20 candy
4/3-$40 Wegmans (food)
4/4-$0
4/5-
4/6-
4/7-
4/8-
4/9-
4/10-
4/11-
4/12-
4/13-
4/14-
4/15-

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $73
$600...$527 left
$0 Days:2
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $250...$231 left
Eating Out- $150...$132 left
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$164 left
I always round up to the nearest dollar.

1- $34 (Shopping-Target). My son's 3rd birthday is tomorrow-picked up a Disney Preschool computer software, diapers, wrapping paper and a few toys.
2- 0
3- $18 (Eating Out- Chipotle), $6 (Groceries-Walgreens), $2 (Shopping-Dollar Tree), $13 (Groceries- Jewel)
4- 0


$0 Days: 2: 13%
$600 Limit: $73: 12%
Month: 4/30: 13%

My savings from coupons and sales: $178.82

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

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


Total No Buy Days--- 1

Total Spent- $300.84 (minus $72.96 medical)

 

[hmack]

04/01 - ZERO spend day.
04/02 - Easter gifts - $22
04/03 - lunch out - $17, Clothes - $57, Easter gifts - $10, Gas - $40, Groceries, $153
04/03 - ZERO spend day

Goal 11 = 2 no spend days/9 left

 

[thebigkahuna]

04-01 No Spend Day! (ok ok, I paid bills, but those dont count!) it was driving past McDonalds that was difficult ~

04-02 No Spend!

04-03 No Spend OH! I found .36 cents! so +.36 !

04-04 $46.01 Gas. Apparently, I went further than I thought, because Saturday night my gas light came on! So although gas is a "in the budget" item, this purchase was not. BUT! I filled up & shouldn't have to worry about it 'till Friday when I will top the tank off.

04-05 - i will have to pick up bread on the way home tonight, so I know this won't be a "no spend" day


GOAL: THREE!! of 10 NO $PEND DAYS

DISNEY BUCKET MONEY: $0.00 (one more & I can add to the bucket!)

 

[scrappyjae]

Goal- 12 No spend Days!

4/1- $0
4/2- Not so good, but knew this was not a no spend day, $127 gas/groceries
4/3- $0
4/4- $0

So far, so good. 3 no spend days!

 

[lougoofy]

4/03/10: $3.28 Hardee's

4/04/10: $10.63 dollar general marketplace
4/05/10 so far: $2.00 gas for grass cutting

 

[VirataMama4]

4/1-$62- Fees & baking supplies
4/2- $70- Walmart
4/3- $105- Commissary and Safeway groceries
$20- Toys R Us- Board games... But if you minus the $5 gift card and $6 mail in rebate, it really only cost me $9
4/4- $0
4/5- $24- Burger King
4/6-
4/7-
4/8-
4/9-
4/10-
4/11-
4/12-
4/13-
4/14-
4/15-

Groceries- $450-107= $343
Misc- $200 $90= $110
Eating out- $50-$24= $26

 

[MommyBell08]

4/1-81.15 for groceries at Kroger, Meijer and Target
4/2-0
4/3-0
4/4-0
4/5-6.04 groceries and personal items at Kmart(double coupons up to $2)
4/6-
4/7-
4/8-
4/9-
4/10-
4/11-
4/12-
4/13-
4/14-
4/15-

*Goals for the month of April*

3/20-No buy days
0/80-Eating Out and Entertainment
0/75-Non-Necessity
81.15 spent/ 142.81 left-Groceries(first month with REAL couponing, wish me luck)
-Spent for Gas
-Spent for Other
106.50+ in Coupon Savings
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[CherylA]

Yay Easter, I got a 0 day!

Grocery $570
- 50.00 Trader joes 4/1
-15.00 CVS 4/1
-3.70 xtra mart eggs 4/1
-45.88 Stop and Shop 4/1
-30.15 M&M farms 4/1
-4.70 ALDI 4/1
-14.50 S&S 4/1
-7.22 Shop Rite 4/2
-4.79 S&S 4/3
-8.03 M&M farms 4/5
=401.03

Clothing $100
-31.14 Target kids ts and leggings 7/2
= 68.86

House Upkeep $75
-53.76 home depot paint 4/3
=21.24

Misc Spending $200

Gifts $40
-6 Easter flowers 4/3
-3 Easter flowers 4/3
=31.00

Entertainment $250
-21.00 Starbucks 4/1
-7.09 Panera lunch 4/1
=221.91

$944.04 remaining of $1235.00 total budget
1/7 no buy days (4/4 Thank you Easter!)
exception: no tracking April 15-22 Vacation

 

[Tiggerish]

The budget is $700 and 10 no spend days.

Automobile $75
Eating Out/Entertainment $75 / $57 left
Giving $120 / $100
Groceries/Household Goods $250 / $194 left
Medical $15
Misc. $165 / $124 left
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4/1 Groceries $8
4/2 Eating out $19
4/3 Groceries $9; Misc. $21 for printer ink
4/4 Giving $20 (church); Groceries $24
4/5 Groceries $15

I needed garlic to make bean soup with my ham bone then went and bought and bought the reduced price Easter candy. I need to stay home the rest of the week to get some zero days.