No Buy February

[charming23]

Did a bit of grocery shopping today and also bought my cousin a pair of PJ's for his Easter Basket for only $4.30 on clearance at Marshall's

Budget:
Grocery/Household: $200/$104.03 Left
Gas: $50/$29.40 Left
Eating Out/Entertainment: $50/$20.00 Left
Emergency/Misc: $75/$60.62 Left

Total: $375.00/ $214.03 Left

2/1- $50.53 Grocery and $10.08 Misc
2/2- $0
2/3- $0
2/4- $0
2/5- $10.47 Five Guys, $12.58 Giant Eagle, and $20.60 for gas
2/6- $0
2/7- $14.30 Save-a-lot
2/8- $0
2/9- $0
2/10- $0
2/11- $19.53 b-day lunch at Harry Buffalo
2/12- $0
2/13- $18.28 Groceries and $4.30 at Marshalls

8/15 $0 days so far
Coupon and store savings: $35.02

 

[Jennia]

Feb 1-$0
Feb 2-$0
Feb 3-$0
Feb 4-$0
Feb 5-$0
Feb 6-$0
Feb 7-$0
Feb 8-$46, groceries and pet food
Feb 9-$0
Feb 10-$259, salon (highlights, deep condition, haircut, hair products for two months, tips)
Feb 11-$0
Feb 12-$355, photos (have a TON we ordered, plus I bought the CD/copyrights so we can print our own off later, too)
Feb 13-$0

 

[erikawolf2004]

January totals:
12 no buy days
Eating Out $316
Groceries $565
Shopping $427
Misc./Entertainment $69
=$1377

Goals for Feb:
12 no buy days
Eating Out $250/$81
Groceries $450/$278
Shopping $200/$123 (have a $17 credit from LeapFrog coming)
Misc./Entertainment/Haircut&color $160/$170-over by $10
=$1050/$648

2/1 $154, $105 Haircut/color, $16 cookbooks, $33 groceries
2/2 $13 pizza
2/3 $19, $23 dress, $13 lunch, ($17) return to LeapFrog awaiting credit
2/4 $154, $109 Trader Joes, $20 Fruits & Veggies, $25 dress off ebay
2/5 $14 Whole Foods
2/6 $119, $ 54 laundry soap & dryerballs, $65 Turbotax
2/7 $0, 1/12 I'm doing this early to keep me on track-I need at least one $0 for the week
2/8 $40, $11 lunch out, $13 dress, $16 CNY supplies
2/9 $0 2/12
2/10 $68, $44 Whole Foods, $24 Michael's CNY/Valentine's day supplies
2/11 $0 3/12
2/12 $34, $4 Starbucks, $30 Dinner Out
2/13 $13 invitations, $10 Gap shirt/tights, $5 drinks at CNY, $5 Donuts

 

[albertamommyof4]

2/1- $0
2/2- $0
2/3-$0
2/4- dishwasher tabs $3.99, and 4l milk $4.77 toal $9.26
2/5 $0
2/6- bought deep fried wontons for lunch( i did the farmers market) $5, mini donuts $4, went shopping IGA- $35.58( dollar days, groceries), M and M meat shop $24.46 groceries
2/7- grocery shopping day, went over budget, never brought a list lol but am stocked up
Costco-$105.12, safeway- $108.65
2/8-$0
2/9- gas for van $40 and $13 for valentines for kids for school
2/10-$0
2/11-$0
2/12- $7 for pizza bread
2/13-$0 plus hubby worked 3 and a half hours of overtime

 

[Debbie]

Week 2:
Budget $300 for groceries, gas and car maintenance (need an alignment).
$10/$300
No spend days for the month 4/10

Feb. 8 $1 (DH LOVES to shop....bought lettuce, which we could have done without and which would have been a $0 day.) sigh
Feb. 9 $24 gas + $68 car maintenance
Feb. 10 $0
Feb. 11 $0
Feb. 12 $0
Feb. 13 $32 gas + $145 groceries

Week 1: $9/$225

 

[Swmr359]

Yesterday I bought my brother a GPS, but I'll be paid back for that, and then I took him out to lunch. Hoping for 0 days until my next paycheck
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Feb. 1: $77 Kroger, $46 Target, $50 SkinID
Feb. 2: $0
Feb. 3: $0
Feb. 4: $0
Feb. 5: $0
Feb. 6: $20 Disney.com, $14 Micheals, $15 The Andersons
Feb. 7: $15 Road Runner Sports, $25 Petsmart, $12 Disney store, $7 Kroger
Feb. 8: $35 Gas, $8 Whole Foods
Feb. 9: $0 Whew back on track!
Feb.10: $0
Feb.11: $0
Feb.12: $20
Feb.13: $37 Lunch w/bro.

Groceries: $173
Eat out: 2/3 ($45)
Other: $85
Race items: $78
Total: $381
0 days: 7/20

 

[Tiggerish]

Automobile $50
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 left
Insurance $75 / $7 left
Giving $50 / $40 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $127 left
Medical $25
Misc. $100 / $5 left
Running total of coupon savings $23.94
-------------------------------------------------------------------2/1 Groceries $25; Misc. $30 (to do two state income tax returns online)
2/2 Entertainment $5 - bought a ticket to my niece's school talent show (she is singing in it).
2/3 Misc. $21 - postage, ink cartridge and paper for printer
2/4 Insurance $68
2/5 $0
2/6 $0
2/7 Misc. $26 - birthday present for bil and liquor for Super Bowl party
2/8 $0
2/9 $0
2/10 Groceries $8; Eating out $15
2/11 $0
2/12 Groceries $40; Giving $10 to March of Dimes (neighbor collecting for them)
2/13 Misc. $18

Went with my sister to Kohls just to be socialable. I told her I was NOT buying anything. But when she found me two brand name bras from the 60% off rack at Kohls plus she had a 30% off coupon, I fell off the no spend wagon. The origanl price was $66. Of course, with Kohls', it is my rule never to buy anything that is not on sale as I think their regular prices are inflated. Then we combined our purchases and she got $10 in Kohls bucks for a future visit.

 

[wdwfan16]

2/2 - $0
2/4 - $0
2/6 - $0
2/7 - $0
2/10 - $0
2/11 - $0
2/13 - $0
2/14 - $0

 

[smiller]

2/1 - $31.84 GoPicnic
2/2 - $0
2/3 - $0
2/4 - $29.85 GoPicnic
2/5 - $25.82 Portillo's
2/6 - $21.85 Whole Foods
2/6 - $6.17 Jewel
2/7 - $1.06 Aldi
2/7 - $13.09 Village Marketplace
2/8 -
2/9 -
2/10 -
2/11 - $xx.xx Whole Foods
2/11 - $17.00 Out with Friends
2/12 -
2/13 - $17.00 Out with Friends

Total: $163.68/$260.00

Life has been very confusing... I'll have to go through my wallet to see if I had some $0 days!

 

[KKB]

today $16.48 at Walgreens (all on sale w/ coupons except milk & VDay card)
$5 son for YMCA day pass (officially this is his own money...when he babysits his younger siblings we pay him $5/hr of which half goes in savings, and we don't pay him cash, but have a spreadsheet for him...kind of a debit card w/ Mom & Dad)
Car needs gas...I think we can get by w/o any more groceries for this week...goal is NO SPEND all week...(0h, you KNOW something is gonna come up just cuz I said it!!!)

 

[Swmr359]

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Feb. 1: $77 Kroger, $46 Target, $50 SkinID
Feb. 2: $0
Feb. 3: $0
Feb. 4: $0
Feb. 5: $0
Feb. 6: $20 Disney.com, $14 Micheals, $15 The Andersons
Feb. 7: $15 Road Runner Sports, $25 Petsmart, $12 Disney store, $7 Kroger
Feb. 8: $35 Gas, $8 Whole Foods
Feb. 9: $0 Whew back on track!
Feb.10: $0
Feb.11: $0
Feb.12: $20
Feb.13: $37 Lunch w/bro.
Feb.14: $0

Groceries: $173
Eat out: 2/3 ($45)
Other: $85
Race items: $78
Total: $381
0 days: 8/20

 

[Tiggerish]

Automobile $50
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 left
Insurance $75 / $7 left
Giving $50 / $40 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $127 left
Medical $25
Misc. $100 / $5 left
Running total of coupon savings $23.94
-------------------------------------------------------------------
2/1 Groceries $25; Misc. $30 (to do two state income tax returns online)
2/2 Entertainment $5 - bought a ticket to my niece's school talent show (she is singing in it).
2/3 Misc. $21 - postage, ink cartridge and paper for printer
2/4 Insurance $68
2/5 $0
2/6 $0
2/7 Misc. $26 - birthday present for bil and liquor for Super Bowl party
2/8 $0
2/9 $0
2/10 Groceries $8; Eating out $15
2/11 $0
2/12 Groceries $40; Giving $10 to March of Dimes (neighbor collecting for them)
2/13 Misc. $18
2/14 Giving $20 (church collection)

 

[Debbie]

Week 2:Budget $300 for groceries, gas and car maintenance (need an alignment).
$3/$300
No spend days for the month 4/10

Feb. 8 $1 (DH LOVES to shop....bought lettuce, which we could have done without and which would have been a $0 day.) sigh
Feb. 9 $24 gas + $68 car maintenance
Feb. 10 $0
Feb. 11 $0
Feb. 12 $0
Feb. 13 $32 gas + $145 groceries
Feb. 14 $5 Tim Hortons + $2 bananas

Week 1: $9/$225
Week 2: $3/$300

 

[Debbie]

Week 3: Budget $300 for groceries, gas and car maintenance

Had to up my budget since I have 2 adult DS living at home at the present, and the DD18 will be home later in the week, bringing us to six adults (well, 5 plus dd15).

 

[charming23]

Went to Target to spend my b-day giftcards and did not find anything so I spent no money today.

Budget:
Grocery/Household: $200/$104.03 Left
Gas: $50/$29.40 Left
Eating Out/Entertainment: $50/$20.00 Left
Emergency/Misc: $75/$60.62 Left

Total: $375.00/ $214.03 Left

2/1- $50.53 Grocery and $10.08 Misc
2/2- $0
2/3- $0
2/4- $0
2/5- $10.47 Five Guys, $12.58 Giant Eagle, and $20.60 for gas
2/6- $0
2/7- $14.30 Save-a-lot
2/8- $0
2/9- $0
2/10- $0
2/11- $19.53 b-day lunch at Harry Buffalo
2/12- $0
2/13- $18.28 Groceries and $4.30 at Marshalls
2/14- $0

9/15 $0 days so far
Coupon and store savings: $35.02

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $598
$700...$102 left
$0 Days:6
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $250...$9 left
Gas- $150...$46 left
Eating Out- $100...$23 left
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$24 left
I always round up to the nearest dollar.

1- $69 (Groceries-Meijer &Dominick's), $33 Gas, $18 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $25 (Misc.- Taxes)
2- $0
3- $2 (Eating Out- Wendy's), $31 (Groceries- Meijer, Wal-mart, Walgreens)
4- $0
5- $4 (Groceries- Meijer), $8 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $32 (Gas), $45 (Shopping- Meijer)
6- $41 (Groceries- Costco), $26 (Groceries- Joe Caputo & Sons), $4 (Groceries- Walgreens), $8 (Groceries- Target) $2 (Shopping-Dollar Tree 2 Sunday Papers for the coupons!)
7- $12 (Groceries- Walgreens), $6 (Groceries- Meijer), $17 (Groceries- Jewel-Osco), $3 (Shopping- Library Book Sale)
8- $0
9- $24 (Shopping- Target), $7 (Groceries- Meijer), $8 (Groceries- Jewel-Osco), $5 (Groceries- Walgreens) $2 (Eating Out- Wendy's)
10- $0
11- $0
12- $0
13- $6 (Shopping-Walgreens), $24 (Shopping-Sister's Birthday Present), $19 (Shopping-Target), $7 (Eating Out- Dairy Queen), $39 (Gas)
14- $6 (Shopping-Dollar Tree), $3 (Groceries-Jewel), $15 (Misc.-Parking and Train Tickets), $7 (Shopping- Chinatown candies and goodies), $40 (Eating Out- Dragon Court) Went and celebrated the Chinese New Year with Aaron and Dada. Of course we have a ton of leftovers!


$0 Days: 6/15: 40%
$700 Limit: $598: 85%
Month: 14/28: 50%

My savings from coupons and sales: $489.13

 

[Jennia]

Feb 1-$0
Feb 2-$0
Feb 3-$0
Feb 4-$0
Feb 5-$0
Feb 6-$0
Feb 7-$0
Feb 8-$46, groceries and pet food
Feb 9-$0
Feb 10-$259, salon (highlights, deep condition, haircut, hair products for two months, tips)
Feb 11-$0
Feb 12-$355, photos (have a TON we ordered, plus I bought the CD/copyrights so we can print our own off later, too)
Feb 13-$0
Feb 14-$0

Have to buy some groceries this week, but shouldn't be more than $20. Other than that, no planned expenses.

 

[lougoofy]

2/13/10: $3.18 breakfast (Mcd's) and $1.06 candy (DG)

2/14/10: $1.23 coffee, $4.31 Groceries (for at work) and $1 snack at work

 

[princessbride6205]

Despite using up so much of our grocery budget (80%) in the first half of the month, I am hopeful that we'll still be able to come in under budget, as we have a stocked freezer and pantry and will be out of town over the remaining weekends (staying with family, they don't charge us for food).

Feb 1 - $60 bus pass
Feb 2 - $0
Feb 3 - $1 coffee, $6 parking
Feb 4 - $5 grocery, $6 parking
Feb 5 - $8 Starbucks, $21 grocery, $8 parking, $23 pizza takeout
Feb 6 - $100 grocery, $27 other misc.
Feb 7 - $100, gas card, $45 new wiper blades for me & DH
Feb 8 - $0
Feb 9 - $2 parking, $8 lunch out
Feb 10 - $7 parking, $7 lunch out
Feb 11 - $6 parking
Feb 12 - $6 parking, $23 dinner out
Feb 13 - $21 lunch out, $57 grocery & Valentine's Day, $60 more grocery, $30 clearance winter coat & boots for DD next year
Feb 14 - $0
Feb 15 - $2 parking

Groceries & toiletries/cleaning - $243/$300
Gas/Parking/Bus - 203/$225
Other (clothes, diapers, etc) - 102/$150
Dining out - 67/$150
Fun Money - 24/$80 ($40 each for me & DH)
Giving - $100

(Medical $30)
(Note to self: Tally up running gear spending)

 

[charming23]

Spending the day at home with a cold/sinus thingy. So no spending for me today.

Budget:
Grocery/Household: $200/$104.03 Left
Gas: $50/$29.40 Left
Eating Out/Entertainment: $50/$20.00 Left
Emergency/Misc: $75/$60.62 Left

Total: $375.00/ $214.03 Left

2/1- $50.53 Grocery and $10.08 Misc
2/2- $0
2/3- $0
2/4- $0
2/5- $10.47 Five Guys, $12.58 Giant Eagle, and $20.60 for gas
2/6- $0
2/7- $14.30 Save-a-lot
2/8- $0
2/9- $0
2/10- $0
2/11- $19.53 b-day lunch at Harry Buffalo
2/12- $0
2/13- $18.28 Groceries and $4.30 at Marshalls
2/14- $0
2/15- $0

10/15 $0 days so far
Coupon and store savings: $35.02