No Buy May! Welcome old and new savers!

[hmack]

05/01 - LLBean 13 (new sandals 50% of sale price !), Renys $59 (gift for neice - $29, clothes $30), Olympia Sports (new track duffle for odd, new water bottle for ydd, running shorts for me & softball shorts/tee for dh), gas $40, groceries $13
05/02 - $132 - groceries
05/03 -
05/04 -
05/05 -
05/06 - gas $30, groceries $17
05/07 - groceries $8
05/08 - old navy $107, Aero $29, Gap $9, panera bread $13, subway $17, groceries $87
05/09 - Aero (yes, same store as yesterday but I ducked in to get my dd's bday present - something she had seen the day before) $21, Borders $48, Forever 21 - $16
05/10 -
05/11 - groceries $28, new checks $24
05/12 - groceries $17, Borders $12, McDonalds $12
05/13 -
05/14 -
05/15 - gas 30, birthday cake (cold stone) $27
05/16 - pizza hut $11, money for latin convention $45, groceries $87
05/17 - jcp $38, Arby's $5
05/18 -
05/19 - $50 gas, $12 lunch out, $15 odds & ends at Walmart
5/20 -

8/12 - four more to go

 

[QVCshopper]

It's early, but I'm determined not to spend any money today. I'm packing a free coffee coupon and a free movie rental coupon for the library, so I should be good to go. Maybe will hit the zoo membership or a park--but I'm afraid my DS4 will hit me up for silly bandz at the zoo...

11/15

5/1-$18 Beach; $5 Panera Bread; $35 Ugg slippers for me!/library; found .01
5/2-$5 Tag Sale; $13 Food; $4 JCPenneys; $29 American Girl; $7 McDs; found .02
5/3-$0
5/4-$88.75 Wegmans/Redners (food); $35.75 Target; found .10
5/5-$0; found .01
5/6-$0; found .06
5/7-$36 Dinner; $2.35 Cookies; $6.35 Mall Food Court; $7.25 M-Day Gift
5/8-$0
5/9-$21 Wegmans; $4 Bird Seed; $4.75 Flower; $37 Goodwill
5/10-$0
5/11-$2 DH bagel/coffee; $20 Dunkin Donuts coffee; found .61
5/12-$15 YMCA Babysitting Card; $6.75 BK lunch; $13 Goodwill (must not go back...); $29 Wegmans (food/coffee); found .25
5/13-$0; found .11
5/14-$0; found .25
5/15-$9 Farmers Market; $20 Fair Tix; $6.50 Fair Food; $6.50 Brusters; found .18
5/16-$34 Wegmans; $3 Dunkin Donuts; $8 Friendlys
5/17-$0; found .85
5/18-$0; found .03
5/19-$5.61 BK lunch; $82.37 Redners/Genuardis (food); $11 Haircut; $50 Gift; found .31
5/20-$0; found .01
5/21-$0

 

[thebigkahuna]

Goal: 12 no spend days

5/1 and 5/2 - I spent money. Lets move on.
05-03 .65, soda $1.25, soda, $5.31 dinner
05-04 no spend!
05-05 no spend!
05-06 $14.05 dinner (late night at work ) $14.65 gift
05-07 $8.07 breakfast,$30.61 lunch for me & a co-worker (I owed her!), $40.59 Target, $13.06 dinner YIKES! I went into Target for TWO things. Two things that did NOT total 40 dollars. impulse shopping anyone? oh well, I will do better tomorrow!
05-08 $4.04 bagel & an iced coffee
05-09 no spend & + $5.00!
05-10 $5.00 on lunch and around 12.00 at the drug store.
05-13, I'm not sure I spent money today, but I honestly can't remember. I will NOT count it as a no spend day because I have no proof either way.
05-14 $20.00 on tip for repairman.
05-15 $30.00 shopping (food), $15.00 shopping (dollar store), $70.00 shopping (Target), $40.00 eating
05-16 - $14.00 on lunch / dinner.
05-17 no spend day!
05-18 Around $30.00 on pizza (and chicken wings, and breadsticks....)
05-19 no spend! I even said "no thanks" to the "lets go out to dinner after work" crew - even though I wanted to go, I declined & felt good about not spending the money.
05-20 $5.80 on dinner.


5 of 12 No Spend days!! That's $20.00 in the Bucket!

 

[MomToOne]

Well, my budget is officially completely, totally blown for the month - I booked plane tickets and a rental car yesterday for a trip early next month to Louisiana to plan a Memorial Service for my father. The 3 brothers that actually live in the area couldn't stop fighting long enough to actually get moving on it, so it fell to my sister (who lives in TX) and me (we live in CA) to deal with it all. Yeah, that makes no sense but it is what it is The actual service isn't until the end of June (looong story there too), but I'm handling the church service and I want to go meet with the priest ahead of time to work out all of the details. It's also my mother's birthday that weekend, and she's feeling quite lonely, so my daughter and I are planning to take her out for some fun. So, while the money wasn't budgetted, it's needed - as Suze says, "People FIRST, then money".

(Due to my unique form of budgeting, my "month" runs 4/26-5/30)
4/26 $0
4/27 $0
4/28 $0
4/29 $16 Field Trip Fees
4/30 $44 Dinner Out
5/1 $31 DL Renewal, $26 Target, $14 FoodsCo, $2 Oroweat Bakery Store, $30 Cash to "Summer Fun" Stash
5/2 $0
5/3 $42 Gas, $12 Walmart, $15 Everyday Minerals
5/4 $15 Phone Topup
5/5 $0
5/6 $0
5/7 $0
5/8 $54 FoodsCo, $4 Oroweat Bakery Store, $22 Target
5/9 $12 CostCo
5/10 $0
5/11 $0
5/12 $0
5/13 $0
5/14 $44 Gas
5/15 $25 FoodsCo, $5 Target, $6 Home Depot, $3 Dollar Tree, $31 Nursery
5/16 $0
5/17 $6 Field Trip Fees, $6 Another Parent for Teacher's End of Year Photo Album, $2 Michael's
5/18 $8 Fandango, $11 Target
5/19 $10 DollarTree, $160 Cash (Birthday Present)
5/20 $7 School Book Fair, $8 School Open House Dinner, $658 Plane Tickets, $85 Prepaid Rental Car

Total Spent - 1413 /800
No Spend Days - 12/20

 

[charming23]

My Mom's got a bad cold so I had to run out to get her some cold medicine, cough drops, and popsicles. But the good news is I went into Target to get that stuff and the only thing extra I bought was some half price scrapbook sheets in the dollar spot.

Grocery/Household: $200/ $13.18 Left
Gas/Car: $50/ $31.96 Left
Entertainment/Easting Out: $75/ $49.67 Left
Misc/Emergency: $75/ $30.12 left

Total: $400/ $124.93 Left

Goal of 15 no Buy days

13/15 No Buy

5/1- $44.19 Groceries for the week at Save-a-lot
5/2- $0
5/3- $22.30 Lane Bryant (a black cardigan shrug I had been looking for and I had 40% off), $5.12 At Auntie Anne's for lunch, $2.78 Save-a-lot because I forgot potatoes last saturday
5/4- $0
5/5- $0
5/6- $0
5/7- $56.19 Groceries
5/8- $0
5/9- $0
5/10- $0
5/11- $4.24 Panera, $11.01 at Target and $18.04 Gas
5/12- $0
5/13- $73.50 Marc's Grocery
5/14- $0
5/15- $0
5/16- $10.16 Groceries
5/17- $0
5/18- $15.97 Dinner out
5/19- $0
5/20- $0
5/21- $11.57 Target

 

[lougoofy]

5/20/10: $4.26 dgmarketplace
5/21/10: $6.00 some drinks (for at home) and tip

and $3.30 little debbie, soda and gas (for lawn mower), $8.93 towel and a few groceries, $6.41 drinks for 2 (sonoma coffee cafe), $35.23 Wal-Mart (groceries and costly laundry stuff) and $6.00 gas

 

[thebeesknees]

5/1 $0
5/2 $0
5/3 $0
5/4 $0
5/5 $125 Target, $100 Kroger
5/6 $0
5/7 $63 Children's Place, $6.50 thrift store, $2.50 lunch, $10 Dollar Tree
5/8 $37 Walmart, $167 Sam's Club, $7 Dollar Tree
5/9 $40 lunch out for Mother's Day
5/10 $0
5/11 $9 coffee with my Mom, $2 airport parking
5/12 $0
5/13 $0
5/14 $7 Dollar Tree paper stuff for DS birthday party, $7 Sunflower Market fresh veggies, $55 Target portraits of DS, 7 uniform shirts for next year (woo-hoo! $5 each!), party favors for DS birthday
5/15 $13 Office supplies/camp fundraiser
5/16 $50 King Soopers groceries, $30 to recharge the minutes on my Net10 phone.
5/17 $0
5/18 $0
5/19 $0
5/20 $0
5/21 $10 Target teacher gift, $31 Target groceries, DS birthday gift

12 of 11 no-buy days so far.

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget for May is $555 with 12 no spend days.

Auto $60 / $31 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $50 / $27 over
Giving $125 / $39 left
Groceries/Household Goods $230 / $64 left
Medical $15
Misc. $75 / $7 left

No spend days = 8 /12
Coupon savings $36.55
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5/1 Groceries $12; Entertainment $18 (movie)
5/2 Giving $25 (church) and $10 National Kidney Foundation of MI Walk
5/3 Eating Out $8 (coffee with my sister to plan our WDW trip in August)
5/4 $0
5/5 Misc. $72 (4 pair of capris for me)
5/6 Eating Out $11
5/7 $0
5/8 Groceries $16
5/9 Giving $25 (church); Groceries $4
5/10 Groceries $29; Misc. $3 (postage)
5/11 $0
5/12 $0
5/13 Groceries $70
5/14 $0
5/15 Groceries $31; Gasoline $29
5/16 Giving $25 (church)
5/17 Eating out $40 (breakfast and lunch); Misc. $5
5/18 $0
5/19 $0
5/20 Groceries $4; Giving $1 (Veteran's Poppy Days)
5/21 $0

 

[SunnieRN]

May 1: $0
May 2: $39.78 Groceries
May 3: $0
May 4: $0
May 5: $0 (work got us dinner for Nurses Day!)
May 6: $0 (as I am on my way BACK to work right now)
May 7: $63.79, Groceries ($30.28 in store coupons), $10, mailing letter and package, $97, that is not actually spent yet, but will be. I ordered a cake to be delivered to our illuminations cruise!! So, I counted it for today!
May 8: $0
May 9: $0
May 10: $0
May 11: $200, nieces college graduation; $21.38, lunch out with daughter and grandsons; $29.94 Light spinner toys; $32, groc and underwear at Wallyworld. My gosh that seems like a LOT of money, when you are trying NOT to spend!
May 12: $0
May 13: $$0, posting early as I have to sleep, and go right back to work. Don't have time to spend $$ today!
May 14: My gosh, I got a 15 min break at work (12 hour shifts), deciding to look at the budget board at 3 a.m., so VERY NOT a good idea. Bought 4 pair of prepaire croc flip flops, $14.99 pair, $7.45, $130, $34.78.
May 15:: $0
May 16: $0
May 17: Should have been a $0 day, but found the fantastic kids book sale and ordered 20 books x $2 + $0 shipping. Snail mail, 5 - 11 days for delivery, slightly used books, but great for us!! $41.85. Amended, Grandson #2, got very ill, co-pay, med, pizza dinner $48.85.
May 18: $0
May 19: $0
May 20: $0
May 21: $18.74 TRU ( -$15.00 reward $$, so $3.74), $107.94 Groceries, ($18.98 coupons), $61.87 for 3 wallets, 2 for gifts, one for myself.

14/13 $0 days!!

 

[butterflygirl3]

I'm gonna try and stay for the WHOLE month this time !!! That is my goal for now Hopefully I will have at least 12 no buy days, but I'm gonna REALLY work on staying accountable for the whole month... I get discouraged and quit So here goes...
May 1st- $20 garage saling (it was planned into the budget though )
- aprox. $4 for snow cones (not planned, but yummy )
- $16 for Prepaid Wireless Phone (budgeted and needed)
- $4 for Taco Bell (hubby)
May 2nd - $21 Walmart (the BIGGEST thing of TP I have EVER seen and other essentials.. (Not unneeded things, so not tooo bad Hope I can get a few $0 days though
May 3rd - $18 for McDonalds
- $12 for Museum of Transportation (Hubbies first day off work in a while )
- $20 for gas - Time with family - PRICELESS Hoping for a $0 day tomorrow cause we're STAYING home and CLEANING !!
- $7 at Walmart for Charcoal (but it was needed )
May 4th - $7.50 at Family Dollar and $14.00 at Deals (Both of these were for a Children's Church lesson, sooo not really unneeded I was proud of
myself for only buying the flashlights for the lesson
- $13.50 for Walmart (Diapers were on sale ... we didn't need them right now, but we ALWAYS need diapers )

The first 5 days of May total : $143.00
Needed items : $64.00 (without the diapers on sale - $77.50 (with the diapers )
Extras : $70 in just 5 days!!! (that's without the $21.50 for Children's Church items...)

May 5th - $0 Woohoo !!! My first one !!!!
May 6th - .76 cents at Shopping Save
- $1.77 Walmart Almost a $0 day
May 7th - $45 at Walmart for 2 b-day gifts, my mother's day present (veggies for my vegetable garden ), and some other needed items
May 8th - $20 on gas Would of been of $0 day
May 9th - $25 at Walmart ( do we see a BAD habit ???? ) needed items (nothing extra though )
May 10th - $6 at Walmart (AGAIN!!!) for dishwashing detergent and Borax (gonna try and save some money by making my own dishwashing and laundry detergent ) Almost a $0 day, but needed that dishwashing detergent

The first 5 days of May total : $143.00
Needed items : $64.00 (without the diapers on sale - $77.50 (with the diapers )
Extras : $70 in just 5 days!!! (that's without the $21.50 for Children's Church items...)

The second set of 5 days of May total : $142.50 (Saved .50 )
Needed items : $139.50
Extras : $45 ( I'm considering the 2 b-day presents and the mother's day presents for me as extras cause they weren't REALLY needed..

I still need to work on staying AWAY from Walmart or going in just ONE trip a week !!!!

May 11th - $0 Woohoo!!!!
May 12th - $0 YEAH!!!!
May 13th - $0 THREE IN A ROW!!!!!!
May 14th - $0 Sooooo happy !!!!!
May 15th - $40 Not a $0 day, but most of that was for fresh fruit and veggies from the Farmer's Market... then $9 of it was for lunch for me and my daughter and $3.50 of it was for newspaper so I could "feed" my coupon addiction Sooo, really not tooo bad if I may say so myself !!!

And this concludes the third set of 5 days: $40
HUGE DIFFERENCE FROM THE TEN DAYS BEFORE THIS!!!!!!
Needed: $27.50 for the fruits and veggies (My girls couldn't live without their fruits and veggies )
Extras : $12.50 - Our lunch out and for the sake of being totally honest my newspapers
Savings from the last 2 sets of five days: ALMOST $100 !!!!!

May 16th - $0
May 17th - $0
May 18th - $0
May 19th - $0 Four in a row!!!!!
May 20th - $16 for the pre-pay phone, $ 5 in gas, $27 at Steak N Shake, and $41 at Walmart... Soooo, not a $0 day, but at least it was ALLLL in one day

And now the 4th set of 5 days - $89 (and all in one day )
Needed - $41 (the phone, gas and part of Walmart )
Extras - $48 (Steak N Shake and the rest of Walmart )

Not too bad, but worse than the week before

Goal for $0 days - 12
$0 days so far - 9

 

[QVCshopper]

MomToOne: I love Suze Orman, people first is right, and you are being a wonderful daughter!

The zoo was out of silly bandz (thankfully), and I got some great stuff at the neighborhood yard sale today!

11/15

5/1-$18 Beach; $5 Panera Bread; $35 Ugg slippers for me!/library; found .01
5/2-$5 Tag Sale; $13 Food; $4 JCPenneys; $29 American Girl; $7 McDs; found .02
5/3-$0
5/4-$88.75 Wegmans/Redners (food); $35.75 Target; found .10
5/5-$0; found .01
5/6-$0; found .06
5/7-$36 Dinner; $2.35 Cookies; $6.35 Mall Food Court; $7.25 M-Day Gift
5/8-$0
5/9-$21 Wegmans; $4 Bird Seed; $4.75 Flower; $37 Goodwill
5/10-$0
5/11-$2 DH bagel/coffee; $20 Dunkin Donuts coffee; found .61
5/12-$15 YMCA Babysitting Card; $6.75 BK lunch; $13 Goodwill (must not go back...); $29 Wegmans (food/coffee); found .25
5/13-$0; found .11
5/14-$0; found .25
5/15-$9 Farmers Market; $20 Fair Tix; $6.50 Fair Food; $6.50 Brusters; found .18
5/16-$34 Wegmans; $3 Dunkin Donuts; $8 Friendlys
5/17-$0; found .85
5/18-$0; found .03
5/19-$5.61 BK lunch; $82.37 Redners/Genuardis (food); $11 Haircut; $50 Gift; found .31
5/20-$0; found .01
5/21-$0; found .36
5/22-$24.50 yard sale so far...

 

[Tiggerish]

Budget for May is $555 with 12 no spend days.

Auto $60 / $31 left
Eating Out/Entertainment $50 / $27 over
Giving $125 / $39 left
Groceries/Household Goods $230 / $64 left
Medical $15
Misc. $75 / $7 left

No spend days = 9 /12
Coupon savings $36.55
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5/1 Groceries $12; Entertainment $18 (movie)
5/2 Giving $25 (church) and $10 National Kidney Foundation of MI Walk
5/3 Eating Out $8 (coffee with my sister to plan our WDW trip in August)
5/4 $0
5/5 Misc. $72 (4 pair of capris for me)
5/6 Eating Out $11
5/7 $0
5/8 Groceries $16
5/9 Giving $25 (church); Groceries $4
5/10 Groceries $29; Misc. $3 (postage)
5/11 $0
5/12 $0
5/13 Groceries $70
5/14 $0
5/15 Groceries $31; Gasoline $29
5/16 Giving $25 (church)
5/17 Eating out $40 (breakfast and lunch); Misc. $5
5/18 $0
5/19 $0
5/20 Groceries $4; Giving $1 (Veteran's Poppy Days)
5/21 $0
5/22 $0

 

[charming23]

Grocery/Household: $200/ $13.18 Left
Gas/Car: $50/ $31.96 Left
Entertainment/Easting Out: $75/ $49.67 Left
Misc/Emergency: $75/ $30.12 left

Total: $400/ $124.93 Left

Goal of 15 no Buy days

14/15 No Buy

5/1- $44.19 Groceries for the week at Save-a-lot
5/2- $0
5/3- $22.30 Lane Bryant (a black cardigan shrug I had been looking for and I had 40% off), $5.12 At Auntie Anne's for lunch, $2.78 Save-a-lot because I forgot potatoes last saturday
5/4- $0
5/5- $0
5/6- $0
5/7- $56.19 Groceries
5/8- $0
5/9- $0
5/10- $0
5/11- $4.24 Panera, $11.01 at Target and $18.04 Gas
5/12- $0
5/13- $73.50 Marc's Grocery
5/14- $0
5/15- $0
5/16- $10.16 Groceries
5/17- $0
5/18- $15.97 Dinner out
5/19- $0
5/20- $0
5/21- $11.57 Target
5/22- $0

 

[MPwifey]

So far 8 no buy days out of the month.

5/21- went to walmart and Target to get some big girl underwear for DD (yay for potty training) and some open closed toed shoes. I bought me headphones and armband for my iPhone, but couldn't find the shoes. I am taking back the armband since I found out I don't need it and will either go to Payless and ice skating today or tommorrow.

5/22-
5/23- one of these will be a no spending day, just not sure which one.

 

[SunnieRN]

May 1: $0
May 2: $39.78 Groceries
May 3: $0
May 4: $0
May 5: $0 (work got us dinner for Nurses Day!)
May 6: $0 (as I am on my way BACK to work right now)
May 7: $63.79, Groceries ($30.28 in store coupons), $10, mailing letter and package, $97, that is not actually spent yet, but will be. I ordered a cake to be delivered to our illuminations cruise!! So, I counted it for today!
May 8: $0
May 9: $0
May 10: $0
May 11: $200, nieces college graduation; $21.38, lunch out with daughter and grandsons; $29.94 Light spinner toys; $32, groc and underwear at Wallyworld. My gosh that seems like a LOT of money, when you are trying NOT to spend!
May 12: $0
May 13: $$0, posting early as I have to sleep, and go right back to work. Don't have time to spend $$ today!
May 14: My gosh, I got a 15 min break at work (12 hour shifts), deciding to look at the budget board at 3 a.m., so VERY NOT a good idea. Bought 4 pair of prepaire croc flip flops, $14.99 pair, $7.45, $130, $34.78.
May 15:: $0
May 16: $0
May 17: Should have been a $0 day, but found the fantastic kids book sale and ordered 20 books x $2 + $0 shipping. Snail mail, 5 - 11 days for delivery, slightly used books, but great for us!! $41.85. Amended, Grandson #2, got very ill, co-pay, med, pizza dinner $48.85.
May 18: $0
May 19: $0
May 20: $0
May 21: $18.74 TRU ( -$15.00 reward $$, so $3.74), $107.94 Groceries, ($18.98 coupons), $61.87 for 3 wallets, 2 for gifts, one for myself. Grrr, forgot my prescriptions, $196.00 (with insurance!).
May 22: $0 off to work soon, no time to spend $$ today, thank goodness!!

16/13 $0 days!!

 

[cherry-pops]

Today I spent a lot. None of my summer clothes fit me anymore (they're too small ) and the weather just turned super hot - I needed new clothes! I did return two things I'd bought online, that will total £32 back to me soon.

May 01 - £0
May 02 - £0
May 03 - £0
May 04 - £200.77 (£36.87 quarterly TV Licence Payment); (£39.26 monthly minimum Credit Card payment); (£34.65 monthly Car Insurance); (£75.00 monthly savings direct debit); (£14.99 monthly Lovefilm subscription);
May 05 - £0
May 06 - £11.00 (£6.50 taxi into the city); (£4.50 drinks);
May 07 - £27.00 (£27.00 disney pins);
May 08 - £0
May 09 - £0
May 10 - £295.01 (£50.01 Full tank of fuel); (£245 rent);
May 11 - £0
May 12 - £0
May 13 - £11.00 (£11.00 disney pins);
May 14 - £62.29 (£1.30 lunch); (£17.04 part payment for Wii game pre-order); (£43.95 new clothes & delivery);
May 15 - £5.42 (£2.92 postage for pin packages); (£2.50 cotton pads);
May 16 - £0
May 17 - £3.50 (50p birthday fund @ work); (£3.00 badges @ Mr Hudson gig);
May 18 - £0
May 19 - £44.30 (£43.20 train tickets to London); (£1.10 lunch);
May 20 - £224.40 (£224.40 hotel booking for London);
May 21 - £5.00 (£5.00 dinner from the supermarket);
May 22 - £122.29 (£4.50 car park); (£40 dress and jeggings); (£74 maxi skirt, vest, tunic); (£3.79 razors);

Total zero-spend days: 10

 

[thebeesknees]

5/1 $0
5/2 $0
5/3 $0
5/4 $0
5/5 $125 Target, $100 Kroger
5/6 $0
5/7 $63 Children's Place, $6.50 thrift store, $2.50 lunch, $10 Dollar Tree
5/8 $37 Walmart, $167 Sam's Club, $7 Dollar Tree
5/9 $40 lunch out for Mother's Day
5/10 $0
5/11 $9 coffee with my Mom, $2 airport parking
5/12 $0
5/13 $0
5/14 $7 Dollar Tree paper stuff for DS birthday party, $7 Sunflower Market fresh veggies, $55 Target portraits of DS, 7 uniform shirts for next year (woo-hoo! $5 each!), party favors for DS birthday
5/15 $13 Office supplies/camp fundraiser
5/16 $50 King Soopers groceries, $30 to recharge the minutes on my Net10 phone.
5/17 $0
5/18 $0
5/19 $0
5/20 $0
5/21 $10 Target teacher gift, $31 Target groceries, DS birthday gift
5/22 $0

13 of 11 no-buy days so far.

 

[lougoofy]

and $3.30 little debbie, soda and gas (for lawn mower), $8.93 towel and a few groceries, $6.41 drinks for 2 (sonoma coffee cafe), $35.23 Wal-Mart (groceries and costly laundry stuff) and $6.00 gas

5/22/10: $5.26? Hardee's, $6.50 laundry and $2.00 drink

 

[ronnmel]

Wow! I am SO far from my 0$ days goal, and I eat out way too often!!!

No Buy Days Goal: 5/12
Gas : 49$
Car repairs : 390$
Groceries : 168$
Eating out (and snacks) : 218$
Non-necessities : 139$

5/1 : 53$ (dress, stickers, beach bags for wedding favors, candy apple)
5/2 : 7$ (lunch)
5/3 : 45$ (groceries + dinner out)
5/4 : 0$
5/5 : 0$
5/6 : 124$ (wine + cat food)
5/7 : 390$ (car repairs )
5/8 : 0$
5/9 : 24$ (gas)
5/10 : 50$ (groceries)
5/11 : 4$ (fries)
5/12 : 0$
5/13 : 5$ (lunch)
5/14 : 0$
5/15 : 45$ (snack + present)
5/16 : 39$ (snack + "comptable" fee)
5/17 : 45$ (groceries)
5/18 : 7$ (fast food)
5/19 : 115$ (appointment, dance clothes, groceries)
5/20 : 92$ (snack+gas)
5/21 : 15$ (dinner)
5/22 : 64$ (early dinner)

 

[MomToOne]

Well, when it rains it pours!! On top of everything else this month, I got the dreaded phone call yesterday: my daughter had lice. Ughhhh. Apparently half her class had it. They've been rampant in the whole city the last year or so. We've avoided them all these years, despite the fact that she was in daycares, preschools and schools full time, so I guess we were due! Anyway, that required a frantic trip to Target to pick up lice treatment.

Then today during our "girls day out" for my daughter's birthday, I forgot the Chili's gift card I had that I was going to use for lunch So we ended up going to Johnny Rockets because we didn't have time to run home for it and still make it to our movie on time.

I will be soooo glad when this month is over!!

(Due to my unique form of budgeting, my "month" runs 4/26-5/30)
4/26 $0
4/27 $0
4/28 $0
4/29 $16 Field Trip Fees
4/30 $44 Dinner Out
5/1 $31 DL Renewal, $26 Target, $14 FoodsCo, $2 Oroweat Bakery Store, $30 Cash to "Summer Fun" Stash
5/2 $0
5/3 $42 Gas, $12 Walmart, $15 Everyday Minerals
5/4 $15 Phone Topup
5/5 $0
5/6 $0
5/7 $0
5/8 $54 FoodsCo, $4 Oroweat Bakery Store, $22 Target
5/9 $12 CostCo
5/10 $0
5/11 $0
5/12 $0
5/13 $0
5/14 $44 Gas
5/15 $25 FoodsCo, $5 Target, $6 Home Depot, $3 Dollar Tree, $31 Nursery
5/16 $0
5/17 $6 Field Trip Fees, $6 Another Parent for Teacher's End of Year Photo Album, $2 Michael's
5/18 $8 Fandango, $11 Target
5/19 $10 DollarTree, $160 Cash (Birthday Present)
5/20 $7 School Book Fair, $8 School Open House Dinner, $658 Plane Tickets, $84 Prepaid Rental Car
5/21 $17 Target
5/22 $18 Johnny Rocket's

Total Spent - 1448 /800
No Spend Days - 12/20