No Buy March

[Figment's Girl]

My husband just started a new job and we are still getting used to the difference in salary and I'm working on our budget. I'm hoping to join No Buy April.

I'm new to the Budget board and not real sure on how stuff works. How do most people post? A diary of money spent every day, weekly or monthly?

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget is a tight $475 for a long month.

Automobile $50 /$2 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 over
Giving $50 / $10 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $17 over
Medical $25 / $15 left
Misc. $100 / $7 over
Easter Baskets $25 / $3.50 over
Coupon savings $66.89
_________________________________
3/1 $0
3/2 $0
3/3 Eating out $13; Groceries $2
3/4 $0
3/5 Groceries $44
3/6 $0
3/7 Giving $20, Eating out $4
3/8 $0
3/9 Groceries $17; Eating out $13
3/10 Misc. $23 (haircut and printer ink)
3/11 Auto $26 for gas; Easter baskets $2
3/12 $0
3/13 Groceries $40
3/14 Giving $10; Misc. $10 (ordered a flower for Easter from kids club at church)
3/15 $0
3/16 $0
3/17 Misc. $7 for craft supplies; Groceries $7; Easter Basket stuff $13
3/18 Groceries $30; Easter Basket stuff $4.50
3/19 $0
3/20 Groceries $20; Misc. $10
3/21 Giving $10 (church collection); Misc. $2
3/22 $0
3/23 Auto $22 for oil change & filter; Easter baskets $6
3/24 $0
3/25 Medical $10
3/26 Misc. $45 - gifts for family; Easter baskets $2
3/27 Groceries $59' Misc $10 for flowers

Tomorrow my parents will be back home to live with me for the summer and maybe for good. They winter in Florida but my mother's health has been going down hill so they are coming back early. So I had unexpected grocery expenses to get things they eat that I do not keep in the house when they are away.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

My husband just started a new job and we are still getting used to the difference in salary and I'm working on our budget. I'm hoping to join No Buy April.

I'm new to the Budget board and not real sure on how stuff works. How do most people post? A diary of money spent every day, weekly or monthly?

Seems most of us, I know I post daily. I have missed a day here and there but posst for 2 days the next.
Welcome!!! This has been so great for me. My real life friends this it is silly but I am loving it!

 

[thebeesknees]

3/1 $0
3/2 $0
3/3 $0
3/4 $0
3/5 $35 gas, $44 Dollar Tree for birthday party stuff for tomorrow, $6 lunch, $16 pictures for DD, $77 groceries
3/6 $22 groceries, $15 haircut for DD
3/7 $8 passport photo for DH, $165 Sam's Club groceries, etc.
3/8 $0
3/9 $4 Lands' End swimwear for DD
3/10 $185 passports for DH and DS
3/11 $0
3/12 $99 Target household items, $14 Dollar Tree cards & snack items, $19 Sunflower Market fresh produce
3/13 $25 Target, $45 Safeway - hit the cereal stock up sale and got dairy items
3/14 $0
3/15 $83 pay medical bill
3/16 $13 Dollar Tree frozen vegetables & sympathy cards, $20 King Soopers cheese/Rx, $10 Goodwill 2 new dresses for DD & 1 shirt for DH
3/17 $0
3/18 $15 Walmart crafts for DD's party next week
3/19 $0
3/20 $80 Safeway groceries & gift cards for DSis' birthday, $45 King Soopers groceries
3/21 $35 gas
3/22 $50 Target stuff for birthday party next weekend, birthday gifts for DNieces
3/23 $27 Post office mailing birthday packages, $45 Target summer clothes DD
3/24 $0 We are snowed in and it is still coming down, so no shopping today!
3/25 $43 Walmart shoes for DS, groceries
3/26 $0
3/27 $0

12 of 10 no-buy days so far!

 

[charming23]

Went to Save-a-lot early this morning to get a few last minute items for today's dinner (French dip in the crockpot).

Grocery/Household- $250/$59.95 Left
Gas- $50/ $29.46
Eating Out/Entertainment- $75/ $30.07 Left
Emergency/Misc- $75/$29.68 Left

Total- $450/ $149.05Left

16/15 No Buy days

3/1- $41.26 Groceries
3/2- $0
3/3- $0
3/4- $12.06 Qudoba Lunch
3/5- $20.54 Gas
3/6- $0
3/7- $35.75 Groceries
3/8- $0
3/9- $5.15 Walgreen's
3/10- $0
3/11- $0
3/12- $25.68 Dinner at El Rodeo
3/13- $0
3/14- $23.12 Groceries at Giant Eagle
3/15- $39.84 Groceries and Household from Marc's and $12.07 at Kinkos
3/16- $14.99 for The Princess and the Frog
3/17- $0
3/18- $0
3/19- $0
3/20- $40.30 Marc's, $2.19 Brueggers, and $13.20 Lowes
3/21- $0
3/22- $0
3/23- $0
3/24- $5 Subway
3/25- $0
3/26- $0
3/27- $0
3/28- $9.78 Save-a-lot

 

[wdwfan16]

3/1 - $0
3/2 - $0
3/3 - $0
3/4 - $0
3/6 - $0
3/7 - $0
3/9 - $0
3/10 - $0
3/11 - $0
3/12 - $0
3/14 - $0
3/18 - $0
3/20 - $0
3/24 - $0
3/25 - $0
3/28 - $0

 

[MommyBell08]

3/15-$0
3/16-$18.61 Princess and the Frog (is this necessity?)
3/17- DH $16.91 for wine
3/18-$5 train ride for the family
3/19-$0
3/20-$0
3/21-$0
3/22-$0
3/23-$11.78 for Toy Story and Toy Story 2, $68.04 gas, $6.41 CVS, DH-$36.02 Gas
3/24-$0
3/25-$0
3/26-$0
3/27-$2 went to a movie with DH and DS
3/28-$70 church $13.11 Bd's Mongo BBQ after church!
3/29
3/30
3/31


$13.11 spent/$6.89 left for eating out

No buy days-8....Goal is 3 more "no buy's"
Gasoline-$100.03
Spending Extras-$60.71
Other-$70

 

[summersalt]

March 01 - $0.00
March 02 - $0.00
March 03 - $19.74 Groceries and Birthday Gift
March 04 - $0.00
March 05 - $0.00
March 06 - $236.32 Groceries, Gas and Household items
March 07 - $80 Love Offering at Church, Motorcycle Gas for DH, and Movies for DD
March 08 - $0.00
March 09 - $0.00
March 10 - $190.00 Groceries
March 11 - $3.95 Juice and Popsicles for sick DD.
March 12 - $0.00
March 13 - $38.08 Medicines
March 14 - $0.00
March 15 - $10 school supplies, $30 hair products and cosmetics, $34 gas
March 16 - $0.00
March 17 - $0.00
March 18 - $0.00
March 19 - $0.00
March 20 – $74.40 eating out and gas
March 21 - $0.00
March 22 - $14.74 groceries
March 23 - $10.71 groceries
March 24 - $0.00
March 25 - $103.03 groceries, $10.71 a bundt pan! (yay!)
March 26 - $0.00
March 27 - $5.39 Ricotta Cheese and BBQ bread
March 28 - $0.00

 

[QVCshopper]

Yay! Made my goal of 10 no-buy days. Have to get some stuff for the cats tomorrow...

March 01 - $21.47 Target (cat food, snacks); $6.33 AC Moore (picture frames); found .01 cents
March 02 - $0; found .27 cents
March 03 - $8.46 BK (lunch); $10.14 Wegmans (food; ice cream); $50 (gift cards for March b-days); found .45 cents
March 04 - $0; found .07 cents
March 05 - $0; found .40 cents
March 06 - $8.46 Brusters (ice cream); found .12 cents
March 07 - $5 AG Doll Fashion Show (bear); $1.50 Chuck E Cheese (ice cream); $6 Wendy's (lunch); 10.60 Wegmans (food); found .11 cents
March 08 - $16 GreatClips (haircut); found .36 cents
March 09 - $0; found .31 cents
March 10 - $42.85 Wegmans (prescription, food, lunch); 19.62 gas for car; found .16 cents
March 11 - $35.39 gas for car; $0.10 Genuardis (groceries); found $1.38
March 12 - $0; found .11 cents
March 13 - $9.51 McDonalds (lunch, coffee); $10.38 Wegmans (food); $4.23 TRU (toy for son's b-day); returned -$4.75 Target
March 14 - $24.70 Wegmans/Genuardis (food); found .31 cents
March 15 - $0
March 16 - $21.56 Disney Store (PJs, toys), $3.10 Auntie Anns, $2.68 Candy, $2 ColdStone, $7.69 QVC (gift), found .42
March 17 - $5.61 BK (lunch), $5 Monkey Joes, found .05
March 18 - $12 Wegmans (food)
March 19 - $0; found .02
March 20 - $46.74 Wegmans (food for party), $32 gas; found .96
March 21 - $10 GreatClips (haircut), $11.25 Target (chix, snacks), $11.60 Five Below (games), returned -$10.60 Disney Store, found .03
March 22 - $9.46 Wegmans (food), $92.18 Redners (food), $25.81 gas
March 23 - $20.63 KMart (toys); found .01
March 24 - $0; found .01
March 25 - $0; found .01
March 26 - $3 Goodwill (clothes); $2.40 dollar store; $37 dinner out with DH
March 27 - $9.20 McD; $3.25 Church sales; Coldstone $5.30; Wegmans $10.46; Gymboree $23.50 (Easter dress)
March 28 - Breakfast $12; Flowers $4; Gas $29.75; found .31
March 29 - $0
March 30
March 31

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget is a tight $475 for a long month.

Automobile $50 /$2 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 over
Giving $50 / $0 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $17 over
Medical $25 / $15 left
Misc. $100 / $7 over
Easter Baskets $25 / $3.50 over
Coupon savings $66.89
_________________________________
3/1 $0
3/2 $0
3/3 Eating out $13; Groceries $2
3/4 $0
3/5 Groceries $44
3/6 $0
3/7 Giving $20, Eating out $4
3/8 $0
3/9 Groceries $17; Eating out $13
3/10 Misc. $23 (haircut and printer ink)
3/11 Auto $26 for gas; Easter baskets $2
3/12 $0
3/13 Groceries $40
3/14 Giving $10; Misc. $10 (ordered a flower for Easter from kids club at church)
3/15 $0
3/16 $0
3/17 Misc. $7 for craft supplies; Groceries $7; Easter Basket stuff $13
3/18 Groceries $30; Easter Basket stuff $4.50
3/19 $0
3/20 Groceries $20; Misc. $10
3/21 Giving $10 (church collection); Misc. $2
3/22 $0
3/23 Auto $22 for oil change & filter; Easter baskets $6
3/24 $0
3/25 Medical $10
3/26 Misc. $45 - gifts for family; Easter baskets $2
3/27 Groceries $59' Misc $10 for flowers
3/28 Giving $10 (church collection)

The rest of the month needs to all be $0 days because I have way to much red in my budget reporting.

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $623
$600...$23 over
$0 Days:10
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $300...$32 left
Eating Out- $100...-$53 over
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$12 left
I always round up to the nearest dollar.

1- $0
2- $8 (Groceries-Jewel)
3- $7 (Eating Out-McDonald's), $2 (Groceries-Jewel), $1 (Groceries-Walgreens)
4- $36 (Groceries-Meijer) $16 (Eating Out-Ikea), $59 (Shopping-Amazon)
5- $6 (Eating Out- Mario's), $1 (Groceries- Jewel)
6- $6 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $23 (Groceries- Joe Caputo), $10 (Groceries- Aldi), $13 (Groceries-Jewel), $2 (Shopping-Dollar Tree)
7- $0
8- $0
9- $2 (Eating Out- Wendy's), $18 (Groceries-Jewel), $6 (Groceries-Target)
10- $12 (Groceries- Jewel) $7 (Groceries- Meijer)
11- $0
12- $0
13- $21 (Eating Out- Portillo's), $7 (Groceries-Walgreens), $3 (Groceries-CVS), $4 (Shopping-Dollartree), $7 (Groceries-Dominick's)
14- $24 (Eating Out- Fuddrucker's), $20 (Groceries- Target), $22 (Shopping-Target)
15- $0
16- $4 (Eating Out- Wendy's & DQ), $4 (Groceries-Jewel), $2 (Shopping-Family Dollar), $12 (Groceries-Target)
17- $0
18- $0
19- $10 (Groceries-Jewel), $14 (Groceries-Meijer)
20- $8 (Shopping-Toys R Us), $3 (Groceries-Jewel), $17 (Shopping-Wal-Mart), $8 (Groceries- Walgreens), $6 (Shopping- Dollar Tree)
21- $19 (Groceries-Joe Caputo), $4 (Groceries-Aldi's), $2 (Groceries-Jewel)
22- $0
23- $18 (Eating Out- McDonald's), $3 (Groceries-Jewel), $6 (Shopping-Toys R Us)
24- $2 (Groceries- Dominick's), $13 (Groceries-Walgreens), $26 (Shopping-Oil Change)
25- $0
26- $20 (Misc-Haircut and Tip, boy did that feel good! Haven't gotten a haircut since April of last year! )
27- $35 (Eating Out- Zoo), $10 (Shopping) Had an awesome weekend with DISer's, the weekend was priceless!
28- $30 (Eating Out- Red Robin), $4 (Shopping-Papers)



$0 Days: 10/15: 67%
$600 Limit: $623 : 104%
Month: 28/31: 90%

My savings from coupons and sales: $1002.98 Will I break $1,000 for this month?!?! I did it!

 

[lougoofy]

3/27/10: $3.49 Hardee's and $6.34 Dollar General Marketplace (needed light bulbs and got a few other things)

3/28/10: $2.31 Hardee's and about $2.50 snacks and coffee

 

[Debbie]

Mar 22: groceries $5
Mar 23: DH bought chips for himself + mac and cheese that we did not need $5
Mar 24: DH and groceries (he DOES love to shop) $8 + gas $32
Mar 25: another stop for DH $5
Mar 26: Easter goodies $20
Mar 27: groceries + junk food $95
Mar 28: I'd hoped for a NO BUY day, but DH worked a fundraiser and they had leftovers. He spent $7 for: 4 loaves bread, 2 full pancake syrup containers, 2 lb cooked bacon, 5 lb cooked sausages, 1 900g tub margarine and a container of orange juice. Not a $0 but a GREAT buy!

Budget for week 4 73/250



No Buy Days: 7/10
Week 3: -52/250
Week 2: 81/250
Week 1: 137/250

 

[summersalt]

March 01 - $0.00
March 02 - $0.00
March 03 - $19.74 Groceries and Birthday Gift
March 04 - $0.00
March 05 - $0.00
March 06 - $236.32 Groceries, Gas and Household items
March 07 - $80 Love Offering at Church, Motorcycle Gas for DH, and Movies for DD
March 08 - $0.00
March 09 - $0.00
March 10 - $190.00 Groceries
March 11 - $3.95 Juice and Popsicles for sick DD.
March 12 - $0.00
March 13 - $38.08 Medicines
March 14 - $0.00
March 15 - $10 school supplies, $30 hair products and cosmetics, $34 gas
March 16 - $0.00
March 17 - $0.00
March 18 - $0.00
March 19 - $0.00
March 20 – $74.40 eating out and gas
March 21 - $0.00
March 22 - $14.74 groceries
March 23 - $10.71 groceries
March 24 - $0.00
March 25 - $103.03 groceries, $10.71 a bundt pan! (yay!)
March 26 - $0.00
March 27 - $5.39 Ricotta Cheese and BBQ bread
March 28 - $0.00
March 29 - $41.70 Gas

 

[hmack]

So, at this point in the month - I'm feeling like I may not make it to my goal of 11 no-spend days. But, that's o.k.. there's always next month.

I think that I'm going to continue tracking gas, at least for a couple of months. I understand that there's not a lot that I can do about either my commute to work or the price of gas, but I just like having that data.

I have decided not to track my dd's school lunches. I write a check out every Monday depending on how many hot lunches she wants, and I don't think that should count as something that blows a no-spend day.



03/01 - 7.50 - school lunches for youngest dd
03/02 - 0
03/03 - $30 gas - $56.59 between Walgreens, Shaws & Hannaford.
03/04 - 0
03/05 - 0
03/06 - $30 gas - $37 Burlington Coat (but I got both my oldest DD's semi-formal dress and my youngest's easter dress) + $76 TJ Maxx (spring clothes) = $113 clothes - $13 Tim Hortons for lunch - $8 groceries
03/07 - $96 weekly groceries (pretty good for me), $13 Cold Stone Ice Cream
03/08 - $17 meeting DH for lunch, $6 groceries, $7.50 school lunch
03/09 - $40 gas - $15 dd fundraiser - $14 new book (this month's book club book)
03/10 - 0
03/11 - $36 - groceries (did some pantry stocking up with coupons)
03/12 - 0
03/13 - gas $40, groceries $14, gelato fiasco (the splurge) $41
03/14 - groceries $90, ydd school lunch $5, sent away for a certified copy of odd's birthcertificate $10.
03/15 - 0
03/16 - $9 - Walgreens, $30 gasoline
03/17 - 0
03/18 - $3 - groceries, $37 for three Threadless Ts (one for me and one for each girl's Easter gift)
03/19 - $38 - DD's athletic fee, $27 - treating dh to dinner
03/20 - groceries - $33, Gap & Old Navy, $111 (and that's with the 30% off coupon) - gas $40
03/21 - groceries - $81
03/22 - school lunches - $5
03/23 - $9 - special prizes for my class
03/24 - 0
03/25 - $25 Walgreens
03/26 - $32.60 Old Navy (nephew's bday present)
03/27 - $18 - Subway, $27 - Yoshi (two meals eating out!!!), $47 - target (new shoes, misc., coupon binder) $78 - groceries
03/28 - $111 - groceries, $4.25 -Rite Aid


11 goal - 8 accomplished = 3 more to go.

 

[thebigkahuna]

March 1st - $10.00 groceries. I forgot cheese!
March 2nd - $11.70 lunch, around $10.00 for dinner <--- eating out is one of my biggest expenses - I'm trying very hard to cut back in this area.
March 3rd - $0.00!
March 4th - Around $6.00 for dinner
March 5th - $30.60 Avon (I ordered this last month, but it just came in today)
March 6th - $16.00 worked late & bought dinner
March 7th - $61.00 Wal-Mart. Evil, evil Wal-Mart.
March 8th - $15.00 lunch
March 9th - $5.00 lunch, $13.00 movie & snacks
March 10th - Zero Spend Day!!!
March 11th - NO SPEND DAY!! (good thing I got one more in too....before the storm that was this weekend)
March 12th - $11.30 present for a friend, $37.70 lunch (I was captive waiting for the car, which brings me to...) $122.99 car repairs, $64.00 rental car.
March 13th - $15.01 gas for rental car, $181.51 car repairs (yes, the same car) $18.30 post office, $11.76 lunch.
March 14th - $20.04 gas, @47.00 at the Grocery store.
March 15th - $21.69 Petsmart
March 16th - ZERO SPEND! woo hoo!
March 17th - $7.44 Post Office, around $13.00 Misc. items
March 18th - $8.60 Breakfast, $16.50 and $15.98 @ the mall on lunch, $182.00 car repairs (not un-expected, i've known about it for a week, but certainly not budgeted!)
March 19th - $7.33 lunch
March 20th - $4.00 lunch
March 21st - $5.61 fast food dinner
March 22nd - NO SPEND!
March 23rd - NO SPEND!!
March 24th - NO SPEND!
March 25th - 1.25 on a soda from the vending machine (dagone sugar addiction)
March 26th - no spend day!
March 27th - no spend day!
March 28th - $8.31 takeout for dinner. I'd been sick all day & the LAST thing I wanted to think about was cooking!
March 29th - 0.65 coke from the vending machine

NO $pend days = 9 out of 10 ! WOO HOO!
this is my 2nd month doing the no spend and I'm getting closer to my goal of 10 days! One more to go!

 

[CherylA]

This month needs to end!

Clothing 50.00

Groceries 400.00
- 1.00 toast 3/1
- 25.10 coffee kcups 3/1
-13.60 s&s 3/1
-21.00 School lunch program 3/4
-2.50 milk 3/4
-18.69 M&M produce 3/4
-15.50 weight watchers bars @ meeting 3/4
-27.00 Target 3/4
-31.34 Adams grocery 3/5
-118.56 Costco 3/6
-11.96 S&S 3/6
-5.00 S&S 3/5
-2.70 milk 3/9
-4.00 S&S 3/10
-14.00 hubby work groceries 3/12
-56.65 Target 3/16
-10 M&M farms 3/18
-20.00 ww bars 3/18
-16.00 GC cookies Tiff 3/16
-20.00 Girl Scout Cookies Shelli 3/18
-7.98 ice creams 3/20
-40.00 Shop Rite/S&S 3/24
-5.00 dollar store 3/24
-6.00 Jerrys 3/25
-6.50 dark chocolate 3/26
-32.00 S&S 3/27
= negative 132.08



House Upkeep/Decorating 40.00
-7.00 furnace air filters 3/4
-7.50 Lowes 3/21
=25.50

Misc Spending 140.00
-20.50 NH Register newspaper subscription 3/4
-10.00 car wash hubby 3/10
-1.60 rest.com gc 3/12
-5.00 izzy bangs trimmed 3/18
-5.00 Pokeno pot
-10.45 ship Proj Linus blankets 3/19
-11.00 Toy Story 1&2
-10.00 pizza 3/27
= 66.47

Gifts 35.00
-10.10 fruit salad M&M farms sis bday 3/6
-21.75 pokeno & me stuff @ target 3/18
-15.00 Easter gift zhu zhus
= negative 11.85

Entertainment
200.00
-110.00 dinner and drinks sis bday 3/5
-6.00 lunch 3/9
-9.5 lunch w hubby 3/10
-15.00 Buffalo Wild Wings w friends 3/12
-23.00 hubby and kids pizza out 3/12
-10.00 sandwich/tips scrap weekend 3/13
-10.00 hubby Chilis w/guys 3/13
-14.65 Princess & frog 3/16
-8.50 Wendys 3/20
-15.20 Plaza diner 3/22
-106.00 day in NYC
=negative 127.85


9/9 no buy days (Mar 2nd) (Mar 3rd) (Mar 7th) (Mar 8th) (Mar 11)(Mar 14) (Mar 15) (Mar 17) (Mar 28)
negative 130.08 remaining of $865 total budget

 

[MommyBell08]

Had a fun day today eating and doing hair at home. Had a friend for lunch and didn't go out to eat! I made lunch here and to my surprise it was JUST as fun as going out. If not more fun because our little ones could run around and play! I am determined to get this debt paid off, and sticking to this. Were alllmost out of March girls!

3/15-$0
3/16-$18.61 Princess and the Frog (is this necessity?)
3/17- DH $16.91 for wine
3/18-$5 train ride for the family
3/19-$0
3/20-$0
3/21-$0
3/22-$0
3/23-$11.78 for Toy Story and Toy Story 2, $68.04 gas, $6.41 CVS, DH-$36.02 Gas
3/24-$0
3/25-$0
3/26-$0
3/27-$2 went to a movie with DH and DS
3/28-$70 church $13.11 Bd's Mongo BBQ after church
3/29-$0
3/30
3/31


$13.11 spent/$6.89 left for eating out

No buy days-9....Goal is 2 more "no buy's"
Gasoline-$100.03
Spending Extras-$60.71
Other-$70

 

[thebeesknees]

3/1 $0
3/2 $0
3/3 $0
3/4 $0
3/5 $35 gas, $44 Dollar Tree for birthday party stuff for tomorrow, $6 lunch, $16 pictures for DD, $77 groceries
3/6 $22 groceries, $15 haircut for DD
3/7 $8 passport photo for DH, $165 Sam's Club groceries, etc.
3/8 $0
3/9 $4 Lands' End swimwear for DD
3/10 $185 passports for DH and DS
3/11 $0
3/12 $99 Target household items, $14 Dollar Tree cards & snack items, $19 Sunflower Market fresh produce
3/13 $25 Target, $45 Safeway - hit the cereal stock up sale and got dairy items
3/14 $0
3/15 $83 pay medical bill
3/16 $13 Dollar Tree frozen vegetables & sympathy cards, $20 King Soopers cheese/Rx, $10 Goodwill 2 new dresses for DD & 1 shirt for DH
3/17 $0
3/18 $15 Walmart crafts for DD's party next week
3/19 $0
3/20 $80 Safeway groceries & gift cards for DSis' birthday, $45 King Soopers groceries
3/21 $35 gas
3/22 $50 Target stuff for birthday party next weekend, birthday gifts for DNieces
3/23 $27 Post office mailing birthday packages, $45 Target summer clothes DD
3/24 $0 We are snowed in and it is still coming down, so no shopping today!
3/25 $43 Walmart shoes for DS, groceries
3/26 $0
3/27 $0
3/28 $0
3/29 $0

14 of 10 no-buy days so far!

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget is a tight $475 for a long month.

Automobile $50 /$2 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 over
Giving $50 / $0 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $17 over
Medical $25 / $15 left
Misc. $100 / $7 over
Easter Baskets $25 / $3.50 over
Coupon savings $66.89
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3/1 $0
3/2 $0
3/3 Eating out $13; Groceries $2
3/4 $0
3/5 Groceries $44
3/6 $0
3/7 Giving $20, Eating out $4
3/8 $0
3/9 Groceries $17; Eating out $13
3/10 Misc. $23 (haircut and printer ink)
3/11 Auto $26 for gas; Easter baskets $2
3/12 $0
3/13 Groceries $40
3/14 Giving $10; Misc. $10 (ordered a flower for Easter from kids club at church)
3/15 $0
3/16 $0
3/17 Misc. $7 for craft supplies; Groceries $7; Easter Basket stuff $13
3/18 Groceries $30; Easter Basket stuff $4.50
3/19 $0
3/20 Groceries $20; Misc. $10
3/21 Giving $10 (church collection); Misc. $2
3/22 $0
3/23 Auto $22 for oil change & filter; Easter baskets $6
3/24 $0
3/25 Medical $10
3/26 Misc. $45 - gifts for family; Easter baskets $2
3/27 Groceries $59; Misc $10 for flowers
3/28 Giving $10 (church collection)
3/29 $0