No Buy January 2010

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I needed milk, apparently we ran out yesterday when I was at the store but I had not realized. I swear I should just buy milk and bread every time I go anywhere. Anyway, We also only had wheat bread which DD7 haes so I wanted bread and milk. For Christmas I was given a Wegman's gift card, so I went and got bread and milk. I thought it was a $5 gift card so I figured rather then having a couple bucks on it that I might forget about I'd get a box of my diet cereal that is on sale. Still having a little extra I got a deoderant (the kids we use anyway) that was on sale for $.69. I got to the register to pay and realized it was a $10 card, so I paid and took my stuff to the car and went and bought another box of cereal and 3 deoderants.

So, 4 Secrets, a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and 2 boxes of Special K--- loved that gift card, it saved me today!

So, today I spent $0!!!

 

[AirGoofy]

What a great idea for a thread. Surprisingly, I had not seen this before. I am Dave Ramsey fan and limit my spending as much as possible. A lot of people out there don't understand. I will follow and use the support (and may even post from time to time).

 

[luvsJack]

1/6--1.05 for a cappuccino from the Shell station on the way to work

$5 for dog food on the way home. (from gro. budget-- 207.00 left)

 

[IMALOVNDISNEY]

01/01 -0-Traditional breakfast out, but, had a Gift Card.
01/02 -0-
01/03 -0-
01/04 -0- $15.00 for DD's school lunch for the week. This was already added in the budget.
01/05 -0- So far. Made my breakfast at home and brought it to work along with 2 bottles of soda. B.K. is really going to miss me.
01/06 -0- Breakfast and lunch both came from home today...But, had the best dinner at Olive Garden tonight. It was FREE . The In-laws paid. Thank you.


Goceries $550.00/550.00
Gas $160.00/160.00
Entertainment/Eat out $150.00/150.00
DD's School Lunch $$35.00/50.00
5/15 -0- days

 

[tinkryansmom]

1/1 $0
1/2 $0
1/3 $40.85 DNiece Bday
1/4 $200 riding lessons (monthly), $18.13 dinner on the run Carls Jr., $25 ski registration
1/5 $7.15 michaels, $26.47 groceries, $16.18 misc - found elf for "elf on a shelf" next christmas, $33.09 shipping package and 2 impulse gifts (4.99 each) thats the kind of stuff I have to watch!!

1/6 $62.85 for gas

EEK my $0 days are at 33%!! That can't be good! Looks like some unexpected expenses too - DD2 may need a trip to the doctor she is really coughing badly and friends dad died so I need to send something up to her.

But cleaning out the pantry of those planned meals that didn't get made really helps!

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $197
$700...$503 left
$0 Days:3
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $250...$169 left
Gas- $150...$130 left
Eating Out- $100...$98 left
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$106 left
I always round up to the nearest dollar.

1- $0
2- $14 (Norton Anti-virus Shopping), $50 (Wal-mart and Meijer-Shopping), $69 (Meijer- Groceries)
3- $0
4- $2 (Wendy's- Eating Out), $8 (Target-Shopping), $12 (Target-Groceries)
5- $20 (Gas)
6- $0
7- $22 (2 Reduced tickets for Ren Faire this summer-Shopping)

$0 Days: 3/15: 20%
$700 Limit: $197: 28%
Month: 7/31: 23%

My Savings from coupons and sales: $119.25

 

[Swmr359]

Went to Applebees last night with a friend who is moving. Today I will have to go grocery shopping, I am about to run out of kitten food and gas.
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Jan. 1: $0
Jan. 2: $3
Jan. 3: $0
Jan. 4: $26
Jan. 5: $0
Jan. 6:$16

Groceries: $0/$100
Eat out: 1/2 ($16)
Misc.: $29
Total: $45

 

[tinkarooni]

1-1-10 $0.00
1-2-10 $60.00 Husband gadgets
1-3-10 $0.00
1-4-10 $0.00
1-5-10 $27.98 Groceries
$10.05 Panera for lunch
+55.11 Credit from Target
+31.00 Credit from Walmart

1-6-10 $0.00
1-7-10 Decided to pay the pork off today, $296. and $6.00 for the kids lunches.
My big goal this month is the food budget so far I have $559.97 left of my $900. budget. I include school lunches, eating out and my pork and beef purchases out of here so it really is the worst month for me this way, they are both due this month, but I figure if I can make it this month than other months should be easy if I just pay attention to it.

I am posting early today. Going nowhere, weather is horrible. Really helps the bottom line.

Today I will be going through my seeds and catalogs and making up my order, so tomorrow I will probably be spending to place my order. This will come out of food money hopefully. I saved a bunch of my own seeds last year so I shouldn't need as much as I have ordered in the past.

Chicken order will be next, need new chicks for meat birds, DH will butcher them. Trust me, if you met me and DH on the street you would have no idea the crazy things we do around here. The people I work with at my corporate job, would probably fall over in shock if they knew. I think it's a hoot.

 

[Pooki]

Today I finally got an email from our photographer saying our Christmas pictures are FINALLY done. Since it is insanely late, she gave us a 50% discount, as well as deduct the sitting fee that we paid for. So....I ended up spending $160 today on the digital files, but since I had planned on buying those last month (and saved over $300!!) I'm not counting that towards this month's budget. I can't wait to get the pictures!

Groceries: 107.40/$500 ($125/week)
Clothing: 0/$100
Entertainment/Dining: 128.42/$200
Misc: 49.91/$100
Total Spent: 475.61/$900
No Buy Days: 3/7

Day 1: $0! (Helps that everything is closed!)
Day 2: $16.06 (Starbucks, $112.36 Yen withdrawal) (both Entertainment fund)
Day 3: $0 (used cash withdrawn)
Day 4: $0
Day 5: $18.05 (groceries)
Day 6: $89.35 (groceries); $5.34 (book DH bought - misc.); $17.07 (tarp & rope for Christmas tree packing - misc.); $20 (DD's book club's "spa" day payment - misc.)
Day 7: $7.50 (car battery charged - misc.)

 

[delmar411]

1/1 = $75.88 ($25/$700 f/h/g , $50.88 planned exp)
1/2 = $0
1/3 = $0
1/4 = $27 ($52/$700 f/h/g)
1/5 = $1375.49 ($77/$700 f/h/g, $723.60 planned exp, $551.46/$800 school)
1/6 = $133.70 ($133.70/$80 activity fees)
1/7 = $7.60 ($85/$700 f/h/g)
$7.60 groceries
The weather is yuck here so I'm not even sure if we'll head out to swim lessons or not tonight. We'll have to wait and see esp since I'm not sure if they'll close schools early so that would interfere with swim lessons as well.
Other than grabbing a dozen eggs so I can make muffins we shouldn't be spending anything else.

 

[kbheap]

$240-Gas - 1 fillup per week for DH - 1 fillup every other week for me
$200-Groceries/diapering - I stocked up on lots of things before the holidays so grocery bill should be less this month
$100-Entertainment/eating out/gifts (my nephew turns 5 this month)
15 - $0 days
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1/1-$0 - off to a good start
1/2-$14 diapers($186 left in budget)
1/3-$0
1/4-$39 annual insurance fee (already in bill budget)
$12 weight watcher sign up fee (lifetime member so this will be the only time I have to pay that) I am putting it under grocery since I didn't anticipate it ($174 left in budget)
1/5-$0
1/6-$20 gas DH (he said it was too cold to fill up)($220 left in budget)
$3 milk ($171 left in budget)
$20 unexpected document fees (I will put under entertainment since it doesn't really fall anywhere else)($80 left in budget)

 

[littlered]

1/4-8.27 for 8 boxes of cheerioos at Vons. I guess I could say 0$ since its part of the grocery budget.

1/5 0$!(DH did go to store but thats grocery money as well)

1/6 1.39 for a Sonic Chiller(used a coupon though!), 43.00 for Preschool sign up for son(not bad a 8 week, 2x/week course and 3 bounce house days), and I am going to drop off some alterations tonight...

1/7-1.07 for a Route 44oz Iced Tea from Sonic w/coupon ont he way to work. But the guy gave me a whole new coupon book which was super nice of him! I didn't make it to the Alternations place, so will have that tonight..but this week has been good, managed to find a few things for lunch in the cupboard. Tomorow I know I am spending $4.85 for a pizza dinner for me, the DH and the tot. Not bad. The Tea I got today is so big I might not get one tomorow

I Looove this thread. I am doing so much better than the $5 here and there every morning for food! I hope I can keep it up, because last month was crazy how much I spent!

 

[patsal]

I so love to track things like this, becasue I am being so careful I am at under $300 for the first week of January. I am tracking all spending no matter what--anything I whip that credit card out for gets counted--groceries, gas, as well as anything I pay cash for!

 

[Swmr359]

It's snowing and the roads are bad, so no grocery shopping or refueling today. I should have enough kitten food to last the night; if not I guess they get extra canned food and extra treats!
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Jan. 1: $0
Jan. 2: $3
Jan. 3: $0
Jan. 4: $26
Jan. 5: $0
Jan. 6: $16
Jan. 7: $0

Groceries: $0/$100
Eat out: 1/2 ($16)
Misc.: $29
Total: $45

 

[lougoofy]

1/06/10: $2.52 Wendy's and $4.86 groceries

1/06/10: $1.00 Bugles (at work snack)
1/07/10: $4.12 Hardees and $13 a few groceries (dollar general marketplace) and & $1 snack at work
1/08/10: $1.50 bus fare, $3.90 taco bell, $5.30 (ent.) book and music exchange, $3.00 Redeye at heine bro.s coffee and $39.63 Walgreens (various things)

 

[PeytonSdiz]

January 1st = $19.57 (calendar and dvd)
January 2nd = $31.66 (random stuff at Shopko)
January 3rd = $38.35 (gas for my DH's car)
January 4th = $0
January 5th = $70.87 (Costco, mostly paper products that will last a long time.) $33.66 (grocery store), $2.41 (gas for the snow blower), $31 (pet licensing for 2010.)
January 6th = $0 (it's snowing so I know we won't be going anywhere today.)
January 7th = $0 (stayed in again today.)

Total so far = $227.52

Zero dollar days so far = 3/10

 

[charming23]

I have a goal for 15 $0 days

Grocery/Household- $300/$25.46 Left (still working the pantry challange)
Gas- $50
Entertainment/Eating Out- $50/$44.20 left
Emergency/Misc- $100

Total for January- $500/$450.76 left

I do have a huge execption this month and it is my Grandmother's 90th birthday. Still not sure how we are going to celebrate it yet but I will not be including it in this budget.

1/1 $0
1/2 $0
1/3 $0
1/4 $43.54 Save-a-lot, $5.80 Lunch at McDonald's
1/5 $0
1/6 $0
1/7 $0

 

[wdwfan16]

1/1 - $0
1/3 - $0
1/6 - $0
1/7 - $0

 

[estherhead]

Jan 1st: $2.95 on McDonald's; $19.97 for I-Max movie and gas money.
Jan 2nd: $44.00 Walmart toy clearance; $202.00 groceries.
Jan 3rd: $0.00
Jan 4th: $0.00
Jan 5th: $9.98 a cow mug
Jan 6th: $41.53 on organizing tools for my girl's room
Jan 7th: $0.00

3/15 no buy days. No buy days are HARD! I had no idea how difficult it would be. Today's was easy, though, because I didn't go anywhere & had no need to internet shop. Gorgeous snow...

 

[Debbie]

Budget: 519/800 left
$0 days: 2/10

Jan 1: $0
Jan 2: $49 groceries $48 gas and windshield washer fluid
Jan 3: $64 Costco groceries
Jan 4: $0
Jan 5: $10 for an emergency fast food stop for DD + $ 51 groceries
Jan 6: $31 gas + $8 hot chocolate stop while waiting for DS
Jan 7: $19.45 (had been hoping for a $0, but DH topped up the gas.