No Buy September

[momof2OH]

Not counting the usual monthly bills-car, ins, ect... just extra spending!!

9/1 $0
9/2 $8.66 (2 conditioners and spray gel)
9/3 $0
9/4 $0
9/5 $25 metal dragon wind spinner for when the house is done, $4.37 Advance Auto fuses
9/6 $50.46 gas and 2pks. cigs, $3.86 2 pops & choc. milk
9/7 $114.39 at Michaels (stuff for house when complete), $52.54 groceries, $50 gift card to US/IOA for trip in Dec (out of vac. $), $124.71 Walmart
9/8 $4.30 Disney store (mug for mom for b-day), $121.62 JoAnn Fabric (fabric for window treatments for house when complete)
9/9 $46.46 Walmart (jeans, sheets, personal)
9/10 $ 15.48 harness for Medusa (dog), $18.10 Drug Mart (meds, misc.), + $21.35 return at Walmart

 

[maggieusa]

9/1 $25.79 Olive Garden
9/2 $0
9/3 $12 gas $7 dinner $33.10 walmart food items.
9.4 $0
9/5 $35 Birthday gift for granddaughter
9/6 $0
9/7$0
9/8 $0
9/9 $26.16 walmart $14.00 on gas $2 at dollar tree
9.10 $0

 

[Tiggerish]

Debbie in Canada, thanks for the little boosts your post gave to so many of us. I was feeling bad that I went over budget on the trip. But you restored my perspective. Now I am thankful that I came in as close as I did. Last year, I would have gone, spent whatever I had in my wallet and used a credit card then worried about paying bills later in the month. This year I know about budgeting, planning and sticking to a plan so I will have money to get through the month and the trip was basically all paid for out of current money - no credit card!

 

[wdwfan16]

9/1 - $0
9/2 - $0
9/3 - $0
9/6 - $0
9/7 - $0
9/9 - $0
9/10 - $0

 

[Tiggerish]

Total discretionary budget for September is $600.

Groceries = $150 / $75 left
Auto/Gas = $50 / $37 left
Giving = $50 / $40 left
Medical = $10
Chicago Trip = $175 / $2 over
Eating Out = $40 / $35 left
Misc. = $125 / $2 left
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9/1 $152 Chicago trip for gas, hotel and food
9/2 $10 Chicago trip for food and bus fare; $17 Misc. to buy a pair of pants since I failed to pack properly. $18 Misc. Disney store for Christmas presents
9/3 $15 Chicago trip for food; $35 Misc - newspaper subscription renewnal; $50 Groceries
9/4 $25 Groceries; $13 Gas; $3 Eating out
9/5 $2 Eating out
9/6 $10 Giving - church collection
9/7 $0
9/8 $0
9/9 $53 Misc - bought myself a shirt from Coldwater Creek
9/10 $0

 

[twinnersmama]

9/1 $0
9/2 $0
9/3 $0
9/4 $26 -- grocery store just stopped in for the "bargains"
9/5 $31 -- gas
9/6 $0
9/7 $0
9/8 $0
9/9 $30 for 2 spirit day t-shirts from DDs school
9/10 $71 - grocery store --- just went in for a "few" things -

 

[Siouxstone]

OMG! Pages and Pages... and now I'm craving oatmeal, chinese food and greek yogurt. Alas, we eat the house clean before a week away. But, seriously, some of you are having a great month! And I'm not just talking about $0 days, I'm talking about awareness! It's not so much about what you spend, it's about acknowledging how much you spend on what!
Rock On Ladies!

9/1-$0
9/2-$1 from Anniversary budget + $60 for Early Bird Check in for Southwest flights
9/3-$0
9/4-$0
9/5-$29 grooming, $40 petfood, treats, & chews
9/6-$0
9/7-$125 groceries/travel snacks/household
9/8-$13 SD card for DS's new camera
9/9-$0
9/10-$40 travel reads from anniversary money

I don't know if I'll get to post again before we leave. Tomorrow, I have to drive Miss Lovegood to LaGrange so she can spend the week with my parents. Then, I have to do all those little things you have to do when you need to be packing! I call it the place between bliss and chaos.

 

[princessbride6205]

Worked a 13-hour day yesterday (until 10pm) so I bought dinner out. Boss bought lunch today since we worked through it, so...yay. This month is going quickly, which is good when considering how much I have left in my budget.

9/1 - $9 groceries
9/2 - $11 Lunch
9/3 - $1 snack
9/4 - $9 Pizza dinner
9/5 - $46 groceries, $29 other (diapers & vitamins), [$10 meds - not listed below]
9/6 - $0
9/7 - $60 State Fair admission, parking & food
9/8 - $0
9/9 - $9 dinner for me
9/10 - $0

BUDGET
Groceries - 55/300
Other (clothes, diapers, etc) - 29/150
Dining Out - 9/110
Gas/Parking - 0/130 (this amount based on work paying my parking this month, there is a small chance they won't, then I'll need to raise budget)
My Fun Money - 21/50
State Fair - 60/??

EXCEPTIONS
* Reward for meeting my weight loss goal for Summer DIS Biggest Loser - download new season of TV shows to my iTunes/iPod.
* Fun Money - $50 each for DH & I. I'll just track mine here so I can remember how much I have.
* Sister's Birthday - $75 - spent $29 so far
* Baby gift for friend - $40
* Photo Software - $260 - We put this off from last month, but photography is too important to us to keep using the free software we have. Last week we had another glitch that lost 100 photos, even though we back up everything. Photo is our main hobby (other than traveling to Disney - HA!) and we don't take DD to get her pictures done - we do them ourselves.
* Passport - something else I put off from last month

 

[Debbie]

...But, seriously, some of you are having a great month! And I'm not just talking about $0 days, I'm talking about awareness! It's not so much about what you spend, it's about acknowledging how much you spend on what!
Rock On Ladies!

9/1-$0
9/2-$1 from Anniversary budget + $60 for Early Bird Check in for Southwest flights
9/3-$0
9/4-$0
9/5-$29 grooming, $40 petfood, treats, & chews
9/6-$0
9/7-$125 groceries/travel snacks/household
9/8-$13 SD card for DS's new camera
9/9-$0
9/10-$40 travel reads from anniversary money

I don't know if I'll get to post again before we leave. Tomorrow, I have to drive Miss Lovegood to LaGrange so she can spend the week with my parents. Then, I have to do all those little things you have to do when you need to be packing! I call it the place between bliss and chaos.

You put it in a nutshell, Susie. Have a wonderful time! See you when you get back!

 

[Tinkerbellie16]

I spent $0.25 on a diet DP yesterday at work (I do everyday - it's cheaper than the grocery store prices!) I also returned some of that stuff I talked about earlier (you know, my OVER BUDGET!!! stuff). I had to pick up some necessities like fruit, juice packs for the kids lunches, and toothbrushes but I still had a net CREDIT of $20!! Yeah!

The house was a bit warm yesterday after turning off the A/C but we suffered through it and today a cold front blew in so it should be cooler today.

Oh, my son did spend $40 of HIS money to join cub scouts - but I think that is money well spent!

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

I forgot where I posted my exceptions .


Sept. 1: $191.70 groceries, $86.46 oil change(exempted) 35.02 gas
Sept. 2 $9.10 Subway
Sept. 3 $84 tennis (exempted)
Sept. 4 $85 stove repair (exempted) (wasn't actually broken-long story)
Sept. 5 $33.28 Michael's (party stuff for dd9), $31.34 Petsmart, $37.45 dinner for dd9 & friends, $40.16 groceries
Sept. 6 $46.08 Lowe's (used 10 off 50-landscaping, exempted)
Sept. 7 $0 (well, how hard was that)
Sept. 8 $165 (see other post)
Sept. 9 Groceries $33.47
Sept. 10 $0 I lost in 3 sets, 1st set tiebreaker, won 2nd, lost 3rd. Boo. And I pulled my right gluteus maximus muscle. Yeah, I pulled my butt playing tennis.
Sept. 11 $20.56 last minute groceries for dinner
Sept. 12 $10.50 Dh's shirts
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Sept. 24
Sept. 25 Disney (exempted)
Sept. 26 Disney (exempted)
Sept. 27 Disney (exempted)
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Sept. 29
Sept. 30

Peace on earth, today.

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

OMG! Pages and Pages... and now I'm craving oatmeal, chinese food and greek yogurt. Alas, we eat the house clean before a week away. But, seriously, some of you are having a great month! And I'm not just talking about $0 days, I'm talking about awareness! It's not so much about what you spend, it's about acknowledging how much you spend on what!
Rock On Ladies!

9/1-$0
9/2-$1 from Anniversary budget + $60 for Early Bird Check in for Southwest flights
9/3-$0
9/4-$0
9/5-$29 grooming, $40 petfood, treats, & chews
9/6-$0
9/7-$125 groceries/travel snacks/household
9/8-$13 SD card for DS's new camera
9/9-$0
9/10-$40 travel reads from anniversary money

I don't know if I'll get to post again before we leave. Tomorrow, I have to drive Miss Lovegood to LaGrange so she can spend the week with my parents. Then, I have to do all those little things you have to do when you need to be packing! I call it the place between bliss and chaos.

Have a buena vaca!

 

[Jennia]

Sept 1: $0
Sept 2: $53 between Gymboree and Walgreens
Sept 3: $34 at Target
Sept 4: $0
Sept 5: $68 at various Labor Day sales
Sept 6: $0
Sept 7: $0
Sept 8: $0
Sept 9: $17, Walgreens (batteries and two packs of diapers)
Sept 10: $0

 

[Siouxstone]

Thanks everyone!

I'm supposed to be printing boarding passes, but I just have to share with people who understand! We finally figured out how to tell DS we are going to WDW for his birthday. We bought helium balloons (1 Mickey H-BDay, 6 plain multicolored) and we put them in our big suitcase (which is no longer usable because it goes WAY over 50 lbs). On the bottom of the strings, we tied the blank card our luggage tags came glued on. It has the picture of the little boy meeting Mickey on his porch in ToonTown. Inside, we wrote "Happy Birthday! We're going to DisneyWorld!" Oooh, he's just gonna freak! He loves the commercials where the balloons pop out, so he'll get his own balloon moment!

Have a great week everyone!

 

[lougoofy]

Sept. 8: $4 and change paper products, $32.89 Target (over half was for storage totes and a phone cord, very useful to me), $31.67 groceries from Aldi's

Sept. 9: $3.25 laundry, $1.79 muffin and candy

Sept. 10: $1.75drinks, $2.87 grocery, $1.00 tip
Sept. 11: $2.08 grocery, $1 yard sale, $1.06 a sundae, $2.86 restaurant bite

 

[carissanboys]

It's not so much about what you spend, it's about acknowledging how much you spend on what!
Rock On Ladies!

So true. I've always considered myself to be a frugal soul - I was just spending too much and didn't know what it was on. So, now you combine my frugal soul with a budget and I'm on the way to being rich!

Groceries - $192.55/$400
Pet - $10
Household/Misc. - $36.64/$50
My blow money - $27.78/$60
Dh’s blow money - $60 (I won't be keeping track of this.)
Gas - $60.91/$160

9/1 - $39.29 (KMart/groceries), $7.33 (Target/household), $20.84 (commissary/groceries)
9/2 - $0
9/3 - $0
9/4 - $40 (TGI Friday's - budgeted dinner out - comes out of groceries), $30.37 - gas for my van
9/5 - $41.01 (commissary/groceries), $8.39 (thrift store - garbage bag full of clothes for everyone in the family), $20.92 (Walmart/household - paint supplies to redo dressers and L-Brackets to secure book shelves to wall), $5.24 (Wendy's lunch out of my blow money), $5.24 (thrift store - pair of jeans for me)
9/6 - $31.47 (Home Depot - electric sander - only $16.47 came out of my blow money - dh and I split the cost)
9/7 - $0
9/8 - $0
9/9 - $51.41 - (KMart - groceries)
9/10 - $0
9/11 - $30.54 (gas for dh's car)

Should have been a $0 day for me since I didn't spend anything, but dh's gas still comes out of the budget so I count it.

 

[Tiggerish]

Groceries = $150 / $75 left
Auto/Gas = $50 / $37 left
Giving = $50 / $30 left
Medical = $10
Chicago Trip = $175 /$2 over
Eating Out = $40 / $35 left
Misc. = $125 / $2 left
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9/1 $152 Chicago trip for gas, hotel and food
9/2 $10 Chicago trip for food and bus fare; $17 Misc. to buy a pair of pants since I failed to pack properly. $18 Misc. Disney store for Christmas presents
9/3 $15 Chicago trip for food; $35 Misc - newspaper subscription renewnal; $50 Groceries
9/4 $25 Groceries; $13 Gas; $3 Eating out
9/5 $2 Eating out
9/6 $10 Giving - church collection
9/7 $0
9/8 $0
9/9 $53 Misc - bought myself a shirt from Coldwater Creek
9/10 $0
9/11 $10 Giving - donation to Habitat for Hummanity and I did a day service project in rememberance of the 9-11 victims

 

[Jennia]

Sept 1: $0
Sept 2: $53 between Gymboree and Walgreens
Sept 3: $34 at Target
Sept 4: $0
Sept 5: $68 at various Labor Day sales
Sept 6: $0
Sept 7: $0
Sept 8: $0
Sept 9: $17, Walgreens (batteries and two packs of diapers)
Sept 10: $0
Sept 11: $22 on coupons and a new bath mat (badly needed)

 

[carissanboys]

Groceries - $212.55/$400
Pet - $10
Household/Misc. - $36.64/$50
My blow money - $27.78/$60
Dh’s blow money - $60 (I won't be keeping track of this.)
Gas - $60.91/$160

9/1 - $39.29 (KMart/groceries), $7.33 (Target/household), $20.84 (commissary/groceries)
9/2 - $0
9/3 - $0
9/4 - $40 (TGI Friday's - budgeted dinner out - comes out of groceries), $30.37 - gas for my van
9/5 - $41.01 (commissary/groceries), $8.39 (thrift store - garbage bag full of clothes for everyone in the family), $20.92 (Walmart/household - paint supplies to redo dressers and L-Brackets to secure book shelves to wall), $5.24 (Wendy's lunch out of my blow money), $5.24 (thrift store - pair of jeans for me)
9/6 - $31.47 (Home Depot - electric sander - only $16.47 came out of my blow money - dh and I split the cost)
9/7 - $0
9/8 - $0
9/9 - $51.41 - (KMart - groceries)
9/10 - $0
9/11 - $30.54 (gas for dh's car)
9/12 - $20 (dinner at Uno's - oldest was invited to a sleepover so I wanted to do something special with the younger two - had a $5 off coupon and for the three of us plus tip it wasn't bad - comes out of grocery money)

 

[Tiggerish]

Groceries = $150 / $50 left
Auto/Gas = $50 / $37 left
Giving = $50 / $30 left
Medical = $10
Chicago Trip = $175 /$2 over
Eating Out = $40 / $35 left
Misc. = $125 / $2 left
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9/1 $152 Chicago trip for gas, hotel and food
9/2 $10 Chicago trip for food and bus fare; $17 Misc. to buy a pair of pants since I failed to pack properly. $18 Misc. Disney store for Christmas presents
9/3 $15 Chicago trip for food; $35 Misc - newspaper subscription renewnal; $50 Groceries
9/4 $25 Groceries; $13 Gas; $3 Eating out
9/5 $2 Eating out
9/6 $10 Giving - church collection
9/7 $0
9/8 $0
9/9 $53 Misc - bought myself a shirt from Coldwater Creek
9/10 $0
9/11 $10 Giving - donation to Habitat for Hummanity and I did a day service project in rememberance of the 9-11 victims
9/12 $25 Groceries