No Buy June

[casper_jj11]

Wow Paula! I'm really impressed! You had a great month!

Our budget was really high this month anyway and we still went over by $800 ... too many unplanned things this month ....

See you all in July! Canada Day tomorrow and everything is closed so at least I know I'll be starting with a no spend day ... I'll be packing lunches for our visit to Parliament Hill

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

June 1-6: $1200
June 7: $5 at checkers for burgers and shakes
June 8: $36 gas, $10 lunch
June 9: crickets $5, $56.92 Target for food and FD gifts, Macy's $24.08
June 10: $62 tennis lessons for DD's for june
June 11: $19.25 at Target (all food)
June 12: $0!!!!
June 13: $48.93 California Pizza Kitchen , $10.50(popcorn)
June 14: $37.57 gas $267.20 Target (groceries-discovered it's cheaper than Publix)
June 15: $37.45 FD day gifts
June 16: $18.00 DH shirts
June 17: $18.37 crickets & fish
June 18: $10.20 library fines
June 19: $40.11 gas again!
June 20: $42.98 Publix (not zero, as I originally thought. darn those receipts!)
June 21: $10 at walmart for tshirt for BF for her Bday (I then painted the shirt for her with our favorite disney phrase-she loved it!)
June 22: $26.95 Publix, $26.72 Ace Hardware
June 23: Returned $16.23 to Target, then bought $110.05 there. Expensive return
June 24: $0 day (I don't have any receipts, at least )
June 25: $21.50 Publix, $37.50 gas
June 26: at Hilton Head
June 27: at Hilton Head and back.
June 28: $0
June 29: $0
June 30: won't be zero, but will be about $50 cause that's all I have left for groceries.

Total for June (not including today) is $2,260.60

Over $260.60. I decided that the $1,200/month budget wasn't realistic, as in the 34 weeks that I've been keeping the spreadsheet, I only came close in May with $1246.

I'm changing the budget to under $2,000 a month, and my challenge now will be how far under 2k I can keep it.

On to July...

 

[Ava]

6/1 - $0.85 soda
6/2 - $4.32 lunch, $18.23 drugstore, $104.13 groceries, $192.00 train tickets for Father's Day trip, $1.00 candy
6/3 - $9.00 lunch, $1.75 soda/snack, $37.02 drugstore
6/4 - $2.99 comic book, $2.11 Starbucks, $1.00 candy
6/5 - $0!
6/6 - $26.00 brunch, $41.12 Babies 'R Us
6/7 - $9.75 breakfast, $19.49 drugstore
6/8 - $8.80 stamps, $2.75 drink/snack
6/9 - $0.50 candy, $11.99 vitamins for DD, $4.31 grocery
6/10 - $0!!
6/11 - $6.00 post office
6/12 - $30.32 CD player for DD's room, $1.61 McDonald's, $21.60 laundry
6/13 - $6.75 breakfast
6/14 - $1.50 snack, $19.99 groceries
6/15 - $6.10 lunch, $1.35 snack, $32.51 dinner
6/16 - $0.64 drugstore, $20.00 laundry
6/17 - $11.75 grocery
6/18 - $25.00 dinner
6/19 - $5 charity drive at work, $20 Old Navy
6/20 - $10 tip for Red Cap
6/21 - $0!!
6/22 - $3.49 grocery
6/23 - $0.50 drink, $15.50 DP lunch
6/24 - $12.12 lunch, $2.25 snack
6/25 - $38.64 cat food, $0.85 soda, DP lunch $5.41
6/26 - $126.98 grocery, $1.90 post office
6/27 - $7.34 drug store, $17.01 grocery
6/28 - $10 breakfast, $17.52 lunch, $10.83 Target (batteries)
6/29 - $20 laundry, $15.50 DP lunch
6/30 - $7.79 cat food

Money in - $210 Mom, $5 Playbill, $24.99 FSA, $150 futon

Totalling up...

Grocery = $287.66
Drugstore (which also includes some grocery items - do you all divide up grocery & non-grocery items from your receipts?) = $82.72
Eating out = $197.09
Misc snacks = $16.41
Cat food = $46.43
Baby items = $94.26
Laundry = $61.60 (I know, I know. We drop it off because we hate spending our whole Saturday at the laundromat.)
Travel = $192.00
Misc = $54.69

Total = $1,032.86

"Found" money = $389.99

Total spent = $642.87

Well... at least I now have some idea of what we spend in a month. I guess. I feel like creating a budget for misc expenses, even for groceries, is going to be very difficult for me. We're very inconsistent. When we need food, we buy groceries. When we need a toiletry item, we buy it. I always use as many coupons as possible and buy as many things on sale as possible, but we don't have the storage space to "stock up" like so many on this board do.

Hopefully July will be a light month! At least I know I won't have to buy cat food - this month I bought 2 cases because they were on great sale, so they are set for the next 48 days.

Off to join "No Buy July"...

 

[casper_jj11]

Edited earlier post to add total from last month and finally realized that once the hockey cheque comes out of the account today, we were $800 over budget Holy cow! It can only get better right?

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget for June: $400;

Week 1 = $185.87 spent; Week 2 = $43.47; Week 3 = $69.00; Week 4 = $213

TOTAL for June $511.34 so $111.34 over but I did have nine $0 days.

I truly need to stick to the $400 a month budget because I have only 13 weeks of unemployment left and still no job and no decision from social security on my disability claim. I am trying to bank 1/2 of every unemployment check so that I have funds to live on once it runs out. So on to July!

Giving $50 / $4 left
Groceries $145 / $1.22 left
Gas $25 / $18 over
Medical $15 / $3.45 left
Eating out $15 / $6 left
Misc. $20 / $64 over
Vacation $130 / $66 over
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Week 4

6/22
$16 - Misc. for haircut

6/23
$0 Vacation

6/24
$90 - Vacation; my share of hotel (two days) and food

6/25
$66 - Vacation; food on way home

6/26
$0

6/27
$23 Gas
$1 Giving - Lions collecting at the gas station

6/28
$10 Giving - church collection plate

6/29
$0

6/30
$4 -Prescription refill
$3 -Groceries