No Buy January 2010

[lougoofy]

1/08/10: $25.21 dollar store and $10.06 12 pack

1/09/10 : $3.70 Hardee's and $1.06 donuts

 

[A.Mickey]

We are really stocked up on groceries now for a while! Unless there are some really great deals the next couple of weeks! I started an excel spreadsheet for the lowest price I have seen for certain items so when I see that price I know to grab it! I saw a 16 oz bag of baby carrots for 50 cents!

Running Total: Spent $340
$700...$360 left
$0 Days:3
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $250...$83 left
Gas- $150...$110 left
Eating Out- $100...$98 left
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$68 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)
8- $8 (Aldi-Groceries), $12 (Dominick's-Groceries), $25 (Meijer-Groceries), $12 (Target-Groceries) $8 (Target-Shopping) $30 (Sister Cash for X-mas Present Misc.) $20 (Gas)
9- $29 (Joe Caputo- Groceries)

$0 Days: 3/15: 20%
$700 Limit: $340: 49%
Month: 9/31: 29%

My Savings from coupons and sales: $175.24

 

[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

Update: 34.00 at Alterations Place, but she is a local shop and she fixed two pairs of capri's, is hemming new jeans and turning my older jeans that are torn on the bottom to capris!!

1/8-Fell Off the Wagon a Bit today: 2.53 for tea@coffee bean, 2.15 for chow mein@lunch, 5.40 for Pizza for pizza for all of us for dinner..

1/9-5.46 for drinks and donuts, me and the tots Saturday tradition and we go to a different local park every Sat., .80 for tea during Sonic Happy Hour, 40.50@Fresh and Easy, I had a 10$ off 50.00 purchase. My orginal total was 40, so I got 10$ worth of meat at the last second to make it $50.00 and essentially free meat, and $40.00 to fill my tank. Tomorow will be a 0$ day. Oh got a free redbox movie, Julie and Julia for tonight!

 

[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
Jan 8th: $6.35 Taco Bell (I paid for my mom) $34.60 Walmart. A few groceries and a pack of diapers and a new potty chair so I can stop buying diapers!
Jan 9th: $33.00 wedding gift

 

[kbheap]

GOALS:
$240-Gas - 1 fillup per week for DH - 1 fillup every other week for me ($129 left in budget)
$200-Groceries/diapering - I stocked up on lots of things before the holidays so grocery bill should be less this month ($103 left in budget)
$100-Entertainment/eating out/gifts (my nephew turns 5 this month) (-$35 left in budget)
15 - $0 days (3/15 so far)
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1/1-$0
1/2-$14 diapers
1/3-$0
1/4-$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
1/5-$0
1/6-$20 gas DH (he said it was too cold to fill up), $3 milk, $20 unexpected document fees (I will put under entertainment since it doesn't really fall anywhere else)
1/7-$1 candy bar, $57.50 DD's flower girl dress (didn't budget for it anywhere, did not think I would have to buy it until March)
1/8-$45 DH gas fillup, $46 my fillup
1/9-Total budget breaker day- $67 groceries/diapering, $25 eating out, $90 off broadway tickets (my gift to myself), $40 clothes, $55 parts for heater (heater went out and had to replace parts in it) UUGGHH today was terrible!!!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Today should have been another $0 day, but my DD10 who is my very best (only) helper was amazing today. She helped me pack up the tree decorations and all the extra decorations that were still out. Did piles of dishes and pots and pans withough me asking. She was great as her sisters both sat on their butts reading, watching movies and drawing. So when DH got home he decided that we were going to take just her out for dinner and the other 2 ate perogi. So, we spent about $25 on dinner but hope it was money well spent to not only shoe DD10 how grateful we are that she is such a good helper, but also to show the other kids what can and will happen when you are a good helper. We'll see, it seems to have made an impact on DD7.

 

[wdwfan16]

1/1 - $0
1/3 - $0
1/6 - $0
1/7 - $0
1/8 - $0
1/10 - $0

 

[avgeek81]

1/6-0
1/7-$20 on gas (luckily i dont go too far so i only get gas like once a month)
1/8-$10 eating out
1/9-0

Grocerys-36/50
Dvds 20/40
Misc 48/50
Eating out 20/50

 

[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)
1/8 = $772.05 ($112/$700 f/h/g, $746/$600 surgery)
1/9 = $39.21 ($151/$700 f/h/g)
1/10 = $0
still forgot to get neosporin. oops! But I had to get frames for my photo project which took a major chunk from the household sinking fund which is why I was too distracted to stop for the neosporin! LOL That money is accounted for elsewhere so for this exercise it was still a zero day.

 

[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.)
January 8th = $0
January 9th = $15 (Williams-sonoma. Saved $10 with coupon.) $42.17 (Costco. Saved $13 with coupons.) $61.67 (Petco. Saved $7.40 with coupons. $50 of that total was just a bag of dog food.)

Total so far = $346.36

Zero dollar days so far = 4/10

 

[smiller]

1/1 - $0
1/2 - $38.84 Whole Foods
1/3 - $11.60 Whole Foods
1/3 - $17.54 Trader Joe's
1/4 - $0
1/5 - $30.00 Annual Dues
1/6 - $0
1/7 - $6.14 Jewel
1/7 - $31.50 GoPicnic
1/8 - $8.59 Marie's
1/9 - $0

$144.21/$202.78

I need to stay focused here - CVSing on Tuesday, birthday present for DMom, and I still really want to make it to the seamstress' and cobbler's. Thank goodness the money only has to last until the 21st!

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

I really like the percentages that Where'sPiglet does, so I want to start adding them. I think it really helps you keep track of how fast you are spending your money in regards to how long you have left of the month! Gotta pull on those reins, but I need to get gas soon almost empty!

Thanks! That's the reason I started doing them!

I got the idea from our AR (Accelerated Reader) program at my school. The kids are given a goal of number of points that they need to get from taking quizzes on books they have read. Each time they take a quiz, it updates their point total as a percentage of their goal, and also gives them a percentage of how far along the term is. It is very easy to check if they are on par or not for meeting their goal, so I stole the idea to use here!

I got way behind on posting here! I spent a bunch at the beginning of the month at a clinic and on medicine and got a little discouraged. I kept track of everything and feel better about it now. I didn't forget about y'all!


Goals: 15 $0 Days; stay within $700 for food, gas, health, and misc.
(I'm modifying this from $600 but including health. In my notes I track health but was then not posting it so it got confusing for me.)

1: $0!
2: $82.44
3: $112.01
4: $6.79
5: $56.46
6: $0!
7: $0!
8: $13.06
9: $0!

Totals:
$0 Days: 4/15: 27% (11 left)
$700 Limit: $270.76: 39% ($429.24 left)
Month: 9/31: 29% (22 days left)

Today is not going to be a $0 day but I hope most of the week will be. We are going out to run errands - LOTS of them - soon. It has been so cold I've been trying to hibernate.

 

[Swmr359]

My goal is no spending until Weds. which will a very high day...both kittens are getting spayed
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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
Jan. 8: $37 groceries; $33 gas; +$7
Jan. 9: $0
Jan, 10: $0

Groceries: $37/$100
Eat out: 1/2 ($16)
Misc.: $62-$7

Total: $108
6 no buy days so far

 

[Debbie]

Budget: 464/800 left
$0 days: 3/10

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: $gas 20....you sure can tell the boys are home and need to go in and out of the city!
Jan 8: $27 at the drugstore (candy/Christmas cards)
Jan 9: $28 gas
Jan 10: $0

GOALS
Jan 10: 32% of the month gone
Budget 42% spent
$0 days 30% completed

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget for the month is $300 because of some high fixed expenses this month. My Chicago project has ended so no more expense account. Now I just have to wait to be reimbursed for the $4,200 I spent for the two months I was there. Money is coming through the court system so I know it will be awhile coming but I am assured of getting it.

Groceries - $150 / $110 left
Auto - $40
Medical - $10
Eating Out - $25 / $21 left
Misc. - $75
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1/1 $0
1/2 $ Groceries $40
1/3 $0
1/4 $0
1/5 $0
1/6 Misc. $2 for battery for the smoke detector
1/7 $0
1/8 Eating out $4
1/9 $0
1/10 $0

 

[Tiggerish]

Swmr359, I know it is an expense but thank you for being a responsible pet owner and having them sprayed.

 

[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 $$302 pork and school lunches
1-8-10 $20.00 DH grocery store
1-9-10 $0.00
1-10-10 Ran some errands today, needed a birthday gift for a party next week, a few groceries. We splurged and went to this great little farmers market to get their roasted turkey for lunch this week, they slice it like lunchmeat but they make it there. So......
$70.00 Groceries
$5.90 Target for Wrapping paper and card
$51.00 Birthday gift and warm pants for DD 9 who suddenly has grown out of everything again.

5/10 $0.00 days
$469.97 food money left out of $900.00 budget

 

[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.
01/07 $5.00 lunch for me.
01/08 $32.00 at Walmart for dog food and other household. Comes out of groceries. And filled my van $36.00.
01/09 -0- Used a GC for Breakfast/tip with DH at Cracker Barrel. Still enough left on it for another breakfast. And I never even went near the gift shop. The clearance area is a big weak spot for me. Went to our monthly potluck dinner w/friends, already had everything for my dish.
01/10 -0-B'day party for DN today. Already bought the gift. We need milk, but, at this hour I refuse to ruin my -0- spend day. I'll get it tomorrow!!

What's left
Groceries $518.00/550.00
Gas $124.00/160.00
Entertainment/Eat out $145.00/150.00
DD's School Lunch $$35.00/50.00
7/15 -0- days left

 

[luvsJack]

1/9 bought groceries $175 which leaves $29 for the month! I may have to adjust the budget some where. What I have will last at least 2 weeks so that will take me to 1/23 with 8 days left in the month and with dh gone most of the time, I can probably stretch it a bit further with leftovers almost every other night; but, 1/31 will be a big family dinner with my oldest ds and his wife coming in from Dallas (our Christmas with them). hmmmmm, will need to think on that one.

Dollar store: $5

1/10 $0 dd and I haven't left the house, been watching TV, finishing taking down Christmas decorations and playing Wii.

Most days next week will be $0, #1 dh's check was very small (his pay from Christmas week) so after groceries and bills, not much else left and #2 we will be swamped at work so no time nor energy to spend any money.

 

[jessp1021]

Hope it is not too late to join in this month..this will be an excellent concept for me to take hold of so my goal for the rest of the month is to have:

10 $0 No buy days

I am still trying to figure out the rest of our budget that I would want to share but I know I want to commit to having more NO BUY days each month!