No Buy March

[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

9 of 10 no-buy days so far.

 

[hmack]

Today was one of those days that I tallied everything up - and I gulped. Not a good gulp - but a "oohhh man" sort of gulp.

I try to stick to $325 a week for spending money that is not a "monthly bill".
Groceries, gas, entertainment, clothes. I know that some of you will look at that and say "wow - that's a lot". But that's a tighter budget than I'm used to. And overall, I've been doing o.k. But I find myself on a Monday morning with $30 left in my budget for the week. (insert gulp here).



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


11 goal - 7 accomplished = 4 more to go.

 

[charming23]

Grocery/Household- $250/$69.73 Left
Gas- $50/ $29.46
Eating Out/Entertainment- $75/ $35.07 Left
Emergency/Misc- $75/$29.68 Left

Total- $450/ $163.83Left

12/15 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

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget is a tight $475 for a long month.

Automobile $50 /$24 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $25 / $5 over
Giving $50 / $10 left
Groceries/Household Goods $200 / $42 left
Medical $25
Misc. $100 / $48 left
Easter Baskets $25 / $4.50 left
Coupon savings $44.89
_________________________________
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

I am staying home today and in celebration of acheiving 10 no spend days this month I baked cookies. However, tomorrow I will be spending since I need to get an oil change. But I have a coupon!

 

[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

 

[MommyBell08]

I had to get in a "no buy" before tomorrow so I can get The 'Toy Stories'. Im ready with my coupons and bestbuy rewards. I am so glad I found the 'DIS'



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
3/24
3/25
3/26
3/28
3/29
3/30
3/31

$0 days-5

Non necessities-$40.52

 

[CherylA]

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
= negative 42.58



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
= 87.45

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
-8.50 Wendys 3/20
-15.20 Plaza diner 3/22
=negative 21.85


8/9 no buy days (Mar 2nd) (Mar 3rd) (Mar 7th) (Mar 8th) (Mar 11)(Mar 14) (Mar 15) (Mar 17)
$101.67 remaining of $865 total budget

 

[lougoofy]

3/21/10: $3.05 Hardees, $1.05 newspaper and $.75 candy

3/22/10: $3.80 dollar general

 

[QVCshopper]

This weekend was bad due to the party, but now I have food in the house and can move on. Hoping for some no-buy days this week. And, we got FREE ice cream at Brusters and FREE water ice at Ritas on Saturday, which was a nice treat!

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
March 24
March 25
March 26
March 28
March 29
March 30
March 31

 

[QVCshopper]

I had to get in a "no buy" before tomorrow so I can get The 'Toy Stories'. Im ready with my coupons and bestbuy rewards. I am so glad I found the 'DIS'

You are doing so well for someone so new! Nice job. : )

 

[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

9 of 10 no-buy days so far.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Haven't got on for a few days, need to catch up.

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
March 16- $0
March 17- $185.41--Dance clothes, groceries, DVD
March 18- $0
March 19- $26.97 Pizza and Wings, friends over

Updates----
March 20-Paid kids for YardWork $6---Dinner at Friendly's (kids eat free) $17.79---Color Me Mine $12.96---Groceries (juice and sherbet for DH who wasn't feeling good) $16.19----Total $52.94
March 21- Breakfast with kids Friendly’s (wanted to use up these Kids Eat Free coupons) $10--- Chuck E Cheese Free!!!---Toys R Us $16.51 P&TF plus preorder TS1&2---Little Ceasars $5.40 (for DH swas till not feeling good)---Blockbuster $2.16 (DD15 needed a movie for school for extra credit)---Gas $14.60 Total $48.67
March 22- $2.25 DD10 bought lunch (her favorite)---$20.80 Big Lots 2 pairs of Mickey Crocks for the kids---$71 Wegman’s groceries---Total $94.05



# of $0 Spend Days- 11 PROUD OF THIS! (Trying for 15)

Total Spent $1478.91 in 22 days NOT PROUD OF THIS!

Tomorrow will not be a $0 day. DH is having surgery so there is a mighty co-pay. Also, I will need gas (only put a little in to get me to Sam's for cheaper gas) and will pick up Toy Story 1&2 (but that will be under $5)

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $456
$600...$144 left
$0 Days:9
Goal is 15 or more!

Groceries- $300...$50 left
Eating Out- $100...$30 left
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) $200...$80 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)
15- $0
16- $4 (Eating Out- Wendy's & DQ), $4 (Groceries-Jewel), $2 (Shopping-Family Dollar Easter Basket and goodies), $12 (Groceries-Target)
17- $0
18- $0
19- $10 (Groceries-Jewel), $14 (Groceries-Meijer)
20- $8 (Shopping-Toys R Us, got my copy of PATF, the blu-ray combo pack and pre-ordered TS 1 & 2), $3 (Groceries-Jewel), $17 (Shopping-Wal-Mart), $8 (Groceries- Walgreens), $6 (Shopping- Dollar Tree) Done with stuff for Aaron's Easter Basket!
21- $19 (Groceries-Joe Caputo), $4 (Groceries-Aldi's), $2 (Groceries-Jewel)
22- $0


$0 Days: 9/15: 60%
$600 Limit: $456 : 76%
Month: 22/31: 71%

My savings from coupons and sales: $880.64

 

[Mickey1Fan]

Today was $4.50 for parking at school. It was budgeted but still only at 3 no buy days.

 

[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!

One more "no-spend" day added to the total It's amazing how going home & falling asleep on the couch will keep you from spending money!

 

[hmack]

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


11 goal - 7 accomplished = 4 more to go.

 

[MommyBell08]

So I got Toy Story and Toy Story 2 today at Best Buy. I got $10 off for buying two Pixar movies, they were priced at 24.99 each (originally 29.99) and I had a $10 off coupon for each movie, from Disney Movie Rewards site. I had two $5 Best Buy rewards bringing the total to $11.78. Plus I got a free movie ticket ($8.50 in value) in each. So the way I see it, I made money today!


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
3/24
3/25
3/26
3/28
3/29
3/30
3/31

$0 days-5
Gasoline-$68.04
Non necessities-$58.71

 

[charming23]

Grocery/Household- $250/$69.73 Left
Gas- $50/ $29.46
Eating Out/Entertainment- $75/ $35.07 Left
Emergency/Misc- $75/$29.68 Left

Total- $450/ $163.83Left

13/15 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

 

[dtr_angel]

Goal - 10 no buy days - 10/10 so far
Budget
$200 - groceries/food - $70.26 left
$150 - gas - $31.66 left
Misc - $30 - $3.30 left

3/1 - $0!
3/2 - $1 groceries, $9.61 misc
3/3 - $6.16 groceries
3/4 - $25 gas
3/5 - $12.85 misc, $79.93 groceries
3/6 - $20.85 groceries
3/7 - $0!
3/8 - $0!
3/9 - $0!
3/10 - $3.18 misc, $8.78 groceries
3/11 - $0!
3/12 - $1.06 misc, 2.36 food
3/13 - gas $50
3/14 - $0!
3/15 - groceries $4, gas $36.16
3/16 - $6.65 food
3/17 - $2.54 food
3/18 - $2.44 food
3/19 - $0!
3/20 - $32.16 groceries
3/21 - $0!
3/22 - $0!
3/23 - $0!

 

[MommyBell08]

You are doing so well for someone so new! Nice job. : )

Thanks so much QVCshopper, I have a question for you, When you say "found x cents" do you me like in your house/car or like at the store on the ground or where ever? Just wondered, as I was waiting in line I was looking on my phone and trying not to look at things to buy and thought, hey Ill look for change on the ground around me.. I didnt find any, but was wondering if thats what you mean! Thanks for the inspiration, why not have an extra $5 at the end of the month!