No Buy March

[MickeyMomOfThree]

March 1 $0
March 2 $84 groceries, $109 dance tuition, $7 DH prescription
March 3 $5 Much needed HipHop Shoes (from the resale box at dance!)
March 4 $0
March 5 $0
March 6- Movie $49. Sam's Club $131. Taco Bell $14
March 7- Date With hubby $16 Red Robin, Gas $39.74, Wegman's $30.92 and Easter Basket things $26.88
March 8- $0
March 9- $0
March 10- $86 AP Test for DD15 (she better pass it!) $101.34 groceries $.50 ice cream treat (went to lunch with DD8)
March 11- $0
March 12- $0
March 13- $315.49 Mostly clothes and some groceries and lunch out with the kids and date night with hubby.
March 14- $0

# of $0 Spend Days- 8 PROUD OF THIS!

Total Spent $1013.87 in 14 days NOT PROUD OF THIS!

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $343
$600...$257 left
$0 Days:5
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $300...$126 left
Eating Out- $100...$34 left
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$113 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 Aaron Needs a Toddler Bed, he is almost 3!!)
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, for 2 Sunday Papers for the coupons!)
7- $0
8- $0
9- $2 (Eating Out- Wendy's), $18 (Groceries-Jewel), $6 (Groceries-Target)
10- $12 (Groceries- Jewel) They have had some great catalina's with sales going on and I keep rolling them! Saved $120 dollars on today's shopping trip with my coupons and cats! Paid $12 and got $13.50 in cats back! All that shopping in March has paid off! $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)



$0 Days: 5/15: 33%
$600 Limit: $343 : 57%
Month: 13/31: 45%

My savings from coupons and sales: $590.31

 

[hmack]

Time to account for the weekend.....

I splurged a bit and was thrify a bit. All in all not too bad.


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.


11 goal - 5 accomplished = 6 more to go.

 

[charming23]

My morning class was cancelled so since i was out I went and finished up the grocery shopping as we needed some more items since family is coming over on Wednesday for Corned Beef. Also had to make copies at Kinko's of my short story for english class tonight.

Grocery/Household- $250/$110.03 Left
Gas- $50/ $29.46
Eating Out/Entertainment- $75/ $37.26 Left
Emergency/Misc- $75/$57.87 Left

Total- $450/ $234.51 Left

7/15 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

 

[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

7 of 10 no-buy days so far.

 

[PeytonSdiz]

Goals = Spend $650 (or less) and have at least 15 $0 days. Also...to only eat out once this month. (Unless we go out of town to visit family, because then we basically have to eat fast food a little.)

1st = $0
2nd = $0
3rd = $94 (groceries)
4th = $0
5th = $0
6th = $17 (cookies) $31 (restaurant)
7th = $15 (car wash)
8th = $0
9th = $0
10th = $68 (groceries)
11th = $0
12th = $0
13th = $0
14th = $8 (fast food for my husband)

Total so far = $233

Zero dollar days so far = 9/15

 

[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

8 No buy days!! Two more to make my goal.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

March 2010 - $500.00 budget

Groceries - $250.00 - $100.00 = $150.00 - $150.00
Gas - $125.00 - $35.00 = $90.00 - $40.00 = $50.00 - $30.00 = $20.00 - $45.00 (used misc)
Misc - $25.00
Kids $100.00 -$30.00 = $70.00 - $40.00 = $30.00

Amount Spent Not Accounted for: $60.00

March 01 - March 15 - page #1 of thread
March 16 - $0.00
March 17 - $30.00
March 18 - $0.00
March 19 - $0.00
March 20 - $0.00
March 21 - $10.00 Starbucks
March 22 - $0.00
March 23 - $10.00 extra toiletries
March 24 - $10.00 Starbucks (DS treat)
March 25 - $0.00
March 26 - $10.00 raffle tickets
March 27 - $0.00
March 28 - $0.00
March 29 -
March 30 -
March 31 -

 

[lougoofy]

3/13/10:$.99 cup of coffee

3/14/10: $3.17 Wendy's, $1.05 newspaper and $1.50 snacks

3/15/10: $3.06 Hardee's and $3.65 Dollar General (air freshener, spray and wash and instant coffee)

 

[Mickey1Fan]

Day 3 of 10 zero dollar days

 

[dizluvah]

Just wanted to say - I fell out of the Feb no buy - right at end - with like a week to go - we found out we are expecting and had lots of unexpected doctor appointment copays - since March is 1/2 over - I do plan on joining in April!!!! Hopefully I can stick with it then - it is a very helpful tool - even DH got into it asking "is today a no buy day?"

Thanks all - see ya in couple of weeks

 

[CherylA]

Well I had my first real splurge on buying that I think is what no buy is supposed to avoid. I went to target for an under $10 gift for my Pokeno group. I found a necklace for that but whille in that section I found a $10 pair of sunglasses that I "needed" and in the stationary section a poly 3 ring small binder ($8) to use for my Disney trip instead of my very heavy deluxe Passporter binder, and the pockets ($5) to go with it. They were totally overpriced but I have been looking for that exact thing for weeks, online even and hadn't found anything like it so I bi the bullet and bough it even though the money is NOT in the budget. Oh well. Time to let it go and not do it again...


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
=1.40



House Upkeep/Decorating 40.00
-7.00 furnace air filters 3/4
=33.00

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
=102.90

Gifts
35.00
-10.10 fruit salad M&M farms sis bday 3/6
-21.75 pokeno & me stuff @ target 3/18
=3.15

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
=1.85


8/9 no buy days (Mar 2nd) (Mar 3rd) (Mar 7th) (Mar 8th) (Mar 11)(Mar 14) (Mar 15) (Mar 17)
$192.30 remaining of $865 total budget

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Just wanted to say - I fell out of the Feb no buy - right at end - with like a week to go - we found out we are expecting and had lots of unexpected doctor appointment copays - since March is 1/2 over - I do plan on joining in April!!!! Hopefully I can stick with it then - it is a very helpful tool - even DH got into it asking "is today a no buy day?"

Thanks all - see ya in couple of weeks

I lost count in February too, had to go out of town to take care of my grandma in the hospital. It happens. Anyway, congrats on the baby! And hope it's a good pregnancy! And my DH says the same thing!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

March 1 $0
March 2 $84 groceries, $109 dance tuition, $7 DH prescription
March 3 $5 Much needed HipHop Shoes (from the resale box at dance!)
March 4 $0
March 5 $0
March 6- Movie $49. Sam's Club $131. Taco Bell $14
March 7- Date With hubby $16 Red Robin, Gas $39.74, Wegman's $30.92 and Easter Basket things $26.88
March 8- $0
March 9- $0
March 10- $86 AP Test for DD15 (she better pass it!) $101.34 groceries $.50 ice cream treat (went to lunch with DD8)
March 11- $0
March 12- $0
March 13- $315.49 Mostly clothes and some groceries and lunch out with the kids and date night with hubby.
March 14- $0

March 15- $0 Today was a little tough. I was down to 2 eggs and needed 2 for the side dish I was going to make for dinner but that would leave no eggs for DH's breakfast tomorrow. So I changed side dishes, saved the eggs for tomorrow but will have to get some tomorrow. But, I made it. Dinner has been served, I am off to a Girl Scout meeting and no money will be spent there.

# of $0 Spend Days- 9 PROUD OF THIS!

Total Spent $1013.87 in 15 days NOT PROUD OF THIS!

 

[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

I just paid off TWO credit cards today...

 

[lougoofy]

3/14/10: $3.17 Wendy's, $1.05 newspaper and $1.50 snacks

3/15/10: $3.06 Hardee's and $3.65 Dollar General (air freshener, spray and wash and instant coffee)

3/15/10: $1.50 bus fare, $1.06 (Dollar Tree) candy and $5.19 (Kroger's) groceries

 

[Debbie]

Mar 15: Groceries $42 + DQ ice cream cake (DD Birthday Sleepover tomorrow) $17

Week 3 Budget 191/250

No Buy Days: 5/10
Week 2: 81/250
Week 1: 137/250

 

[PeytonSdiz]

Goals = Spend $650 (or less) and have at least 15 $0 days. Also...to only eat out once this month. (Unless we go out of town to visit family, because then we basically have to eat fast food a little.)

1st = $0
2nd = $0
3rd = $94 (groceries)
4th = $0
5th = $0
6th = $17 (cookies) $31 (restaurant)
7th = $15 (car wash)
8th = $0
9th = $0
10th = $68 (groceries)
11th = $0
12th = $0
13th = $0
14th = $8 (fast food for my husband)
15th = $0

Total so far = $233

Zero dollar days so far = 10/15

Tomorrow is going to be a big spend day. Ugh.

 

[Veals_Family]

I can't believe I haven't found this sooner! I LOVE THIS IDEA! I'll be trying this out next month

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget is a tight $475 for a long month.

Automobile $50 /$24 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 over
Giving $50 / $20 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $99 left
Medical $25
Misc. $100 / $67 left
Easter Baskets $25 / $23 left
Coupon savings $27.12
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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