November No Buy! Special "Holiday Edition"!

[DisneyMandC]

1- Post office, $4.45. This was a stupid tax for me on purchasing the wrong item and needing to send it back.
2- Getting a haircut tonight. A little costly, but I only get my haircut about twice a year so I feel the cost is justified.
3- No buy
4- Caved and bought HBO for the month. Darn you, Westworld... so good.
5- No buy
6- Treated my brother to lunch (he paid a very big bill for me recently without me knowing until it was done and refused to let me pay him back) and bought Starbucks.
7- Bought two boxes of cornbread mix for one whole dollar! Ha!
8- No buy
9- Chuy's for dinner (but I do have leftovers!)
10- No buy
11- Bought a couple grocery items for grandma since she can't go out herself. She wanted to pay me back but I refused. $15 isn't going to tank my budget and she's on a fixed income.
12- DH and I went shopping. Fail. I did use a 30% off coupon plus a $5 off coupon at Kohl's though.
13- No buy.

 

[tinkarooni]

Nov 1 - $18.09 Target
Haircut and color $84.00
Stop at grocery store $3.39
Nov 2 - $18.81 - flowers DD
Nov 3 - No Buy (1/18)
Nov 4 - No Buy (2/18)
Nov 5 - regular errands, groceries, picked up a few things for holiday gifts
November 6 - picked up a shelving unit, doing some organizing
Nov 7 - No Buy (3/18)
Nov 8 - No Buy (4/18)
Nov 9 - Stupid tax $17.71 - I am traveling for work and realized that I had forgotten some needed toiletries. So stupid. I travel a bit lately so I keep a bag packed, I pulled a couple things out of it and forgot to replace them.
Nov 10 - No Buy (5/18)
Nov 11 - No Buy (6/18)
Nov 12 - grocery shopping
Nov 13 - I had to buy new glasses, I used up my insurance benefits before they expired. Also jumped online and did some Christmas shopping. I have a great jump on gifts outside of the immediate family.
Nov 14 - No Buy (7/18)- I'm easily able to call it now. I am working from home and have ham and bean soup in the roaster oven. I am going nowhere, and happy about it. The rest of the week I will be traveling for work and everyday will more than likely be No Buys. I hardly ever spend a dime of my own money when I'm out of town for work unless I forget to pack something. I'll have to pack very carefully.

 

[tinkarooni]

11- Bought a couple grocery items for grandma since she can't go out herself. She wanted to pay me back but I refused. $15 isn't going to tank my budget and she's on a fixed income.

I personally think that you deserve a No Buy day for this kindness. We make our own rules, I will bestow one of my No Buy days on you.

 

[Mel138]

New here, and I'm going going to try this. Probably on my most challenging week! Aiming for 7 days with the exception of bills/gas and I have a meeting at a coffee shop, but this will hopefully help me only get a tea!

 

[fallonkendra]

Aiming for 10 no-buy days

11/1: $110 on after-Halloween sales (everything was minimum 75% off, so we stock up on bags/new decorations/costumes)
11/2: $50 on lunch for my department, it was my turn to buy for everyone.
11/3: No buy! (1/10)
11/4: $130 on a new Dooney & Bourke - but I had budgeted $250 into my savings for our trip in January to buy one, so this is like $120 in savings
11/5: No buy! (2/10)
11/6: Went for supper with friends, my boyfriend paid for us. I didn't really enjoy the food though, so I did spend $8 at McDonald's on the way home
11/7: No buy! (3/10)
11/8: No buy! (4/10)
11/9: Lunch $15
11/10: Lunch $8
11/11: No buy! (5/10)
11/12: No buy! (6/10)
11/13: Met some friends for supper ($50), bought a new dress at Hot Topic ($30)

 

[tinkarooni]

New here, and I'm going going to try this. Probably on my most challenging week! Aiming for 7 days with the exception of bills/gas and I have a meeting at a coffee shop, but this will hopefully help me only get a tea!

 

[khmorgan]

November 1- no buy (1)
November 2- $7 lunch, $800 flights for December trip.
November 3- no buy (2)
November 4- $50 dinner with the family
November 5- I loaded the cards today, $450 for food and gas between DH's and my cards, $200 on winter clothes for the kids.
November 6- $5 Starbucks, $150 more kids clothes.
November 7- no buy (3)
November 8- no buy (4)
November 9- no buy (5)
November 10- $4 coffee, $200 birthday/Christmas gift for MIL, $300 the first of many bills from DS's broken arm.
November 11- no buy (6)
November 12- lunch, and dessert for dinner $50. Target for new pillows for everyone, bedding for the guest room, and Christmas decorations $160.
November 13- $60 Bed bath and beyond.
November 14- no buy (7)

 

[travelgirl06]

11/14 - no buy #5 (5/10)

 

[jsmla]

November 1-$28.32 on gas, $7.41 on a large salad to have at Dad's.
November 2-$1.07 on a 2l Diet Coke ditto.
November 3-$0
November 4-$149.59 at Sam's Club, $35.00 on dinner out.
November 5-approximately $40 on beer and takeout.
November 6-$$ (no idea really) on admission, beer and junk food at a Ren Fair
November 7-$0
November 8-$0
November 9-$0
November 10-$101.14 on groceries.
November 11-$36 at the vet
November 12-$98.40 on campsite rental and tips
November 13-$0
November 14-$0

We spent two nights camping in Biloxi, MS and ate in both nights. We had a Groupon (bought a year ago!) for a brewery tour and tasting and MyVegas rewards for free Sunday brunch. On Saturday we visited Gulf Islamds National Seashore (free) for biking and a little easy hiking. Then we grilled out before heading over to the brewery for a few beers and the LSU game. It was a gorgeous weekend!

Our flooding refugee house guest moved out over the weekend after three months of living with us. We're very happy for her and, if I'm perfectly honest, a little bit for us as well. It's nice to have it just DH and me again.

 

[Mizzoufan]

Some of you have very strong will power!

 

[pkelly6]

Going to stop tracking this month... between moving, Christmas and traveling for Thanksgiving, I think I'm spending almost every single day. Sigh. Will catch back up with you all in December!

 

[tinkarooni]

Nov 1 - $18.09 Target
Haircut and color $84.00
Stop at grocery store $3.39
Nov 2 - $18.81 - flowers DD
Nov 3 - No Buy (1/18)
Nov 4 - No Buy (2/18)
Nov 5 - regular errands, groceries, picked up a few things for holiday gifts
November 6 - picked up a shelving unit, doing some organizing
Nov 7 - No Buy (3/18)
Nov 8 - No Buy (4/18)
Nov 9 - Stupid tax $17.71 - I am traveling for work and realized that I had forgotten some needed toiletries. So stupid. I travel a bit lately so I keep a bag packed, I pulled a couple things out of it and forgot to replace them.
Nov 10 - No Buy (5/18)
Nov 11 - No Buy (6/18)
Nov 12 - grocery shopping
Nov 13 - $$$ glasses and Christmas gifts
Nov 14 - No Buy (7/18)
Nov 15 - new outfit for work. (Sigh) that was a fail.

 

[tinkarooni]

Nov 1 - $18.09 Target
Haircut and color $84.00
Stop at grocery store $3.39
Nov 2 - $18.81 - flowers DD
Nov 3 - No Buy (1/18)
Nov 4 - No Buy (2/18)
Nov 5 - regular errands, groceries, picked up a few things for holiday gifts
November 6 - picked up a shelving unit, doing some organizing
Nov 7 - No Buy (3/18)
Nov 8 - No Buy (4/18)
Nov 9 - Stupid tax $17.71 - I am traveling for work and realized that I had forgotten some needed toiletries. So stupid. I travel a bit lately so I keep a bag packed, I pulled a couple things out of it and forgot to replace them.
Nov 10 - No Buy (5/18)
Nov 11 - No Buy (6/18)
Nov 12 - grocery shopping
Nov 13 - $$$ glasses and Christmas gifts
Nov 14 - No Buy (7/18)
Nov 15 - new outfit for work. (Sigh) that was a fail.
Nov 16 - No Buy (8/18) Keep swimming

 

[khmorgan]

November 1- no buy (1)
November 2- $7 lunch, $800 flights for December trip.
November 3- no buy (2)
November 4- $50 dinner with the family
November 5- I loaded the cards today, $450 for food and gas between DH's and my cards, $200 on winter clothes for the kids.
November 6- $5 Starbucks, $150 more kids clothes.
November 7- no buy (3)
November 8- no buy (4)
November 9- no buy (5)
November 10- $4 coffee, $200 birthday/Christmas gift for MIL, $300 the first of many bills from DS's broken arm.
November 11- no buy (6)
November 12- lunch, and dessert for dinner $50. Target for new pillows for everyone, bedding for the guest room, and Christmas decorations $160.
November 13- $60 Bed bath and beyond.
November 14- no buy (7)
November 15- no buy (8)
November 16- DH ran out of time cook what I set out, so we went out...but I remembered a gift card from almost a year ago! $48 bill (gift card was $50), he tipped out of his cash! No buy (9)

 

[jsmla]

November 1-$28.32 on gas, $7.41 on a large salad to have at Dad's.
November 2-$1.07 on a 2l Diet Coke ditto.
November 3-$0
November 4-$149.59 at Sam's Club, $35.00 on dinner out.
November 5-approximately $40 on beer and takeout.
November 6-$$ (no idea really) on admission, beer and junk food at a Ren Fair
November 7-$0
November 8-$0
November 9-$0
November 10-$101.14 on groceries.
November 11-$36 at the vet
November 12-$98.40 on campsite rental and tips
November 13-$0
November 14-$0
November 15-$142 at the vet
November 16-$0

Molly the Shi Tzu is doing her dead level best to become the most expensive pet we've ever had-blood work, liver function test and more pills.

Today definitely won't be a no spend day-gotta gas up the car and pick up a few ingredients for a pie I'm making for the Thanksgiving dinner at my father's assisted living facility this evening.

 

[fallonkendra]

Aiming for 10 no-buy days

11/1: $110 on after-Halloween sales (everything was minimum 75% off, so we stock up on new decorations/costumes/etc)
11/2: $50 on lunch for my department, it was my turn to buy for everyone.
11/3: No buy! (1/10)
11/4: $130 on a new Dooney & Bourke - but I had budgeted $250 into my savings for our trip in January to buy one, so this is like $120 in savings
11/5: No buy! (2/10)
11/6: Went for supper with friends, my boyfriend paid for us. I didn't really enjoy the food though, so I did spend $8 at McDonald's on the way home
11/7: No buy! (3/10)
11/8: No buy! (4/10)
11/9: Lunch $15
11/10: Lunch $8
11/11: No buy! (5/10)
11/12: No buy! (6/10)
11/13: Met some friends for supper ($50), bought a new dress at Hot Topic ($30)
11/14: No buy! (7/10)
11/15: Had a few errands to run after work, ended up spending over $100...
11/16: Paid for lunch for a co-worker and myself (since he paid for me the day before) $20
11/17: It will be a spend money day. I need to stop for gas on the way home (first time this month! I love my short commute to work!). We also have preview passes to go see Moana tonight, and it's been so long since I've been to the movie theater that I WILL be buying popcorn haha.

 

[tinkarooni]

Nov 1 - $18.09 Target
Haircut and color $84.00
Stop at grocery store $3.39
Nov 2 - $18.81 - flowers DD
Nov 3 - No Buy (1/18)
Nov 4 - No Buy (2/18)
Nov 5 - regular errands, groceries, picked up a few things for holiday gifts
November 6 - picked up a shelving unit, doing some organizing
Nov 7 - No Buy (3/18)
Nov 8 - No Buy (4/18)
Nov 9 - Stupid tax $17.71 - I am traveling for work and realized that I had forgotten some needed toiletries. So stupid. I travel a bit lately so I keep a bag packed, I pulled a couple things out of it and forgot to replace them.
Nov 10 - No Buy (5/18)
Nov 11 - No Buy (6/18)
Nov 12 - grocery shopping
Nov 13 - $$$ glasses and Christmas gifts
Nov 14 - No Buy (7/18)
Nov 15 - new outfit for work. (Sigh) that was a fail.
Nov 16 - No Buy (8/18) Keep swimming
Nov 17 - No Buy (9/18)

 

[travelgirl06]

11/15 - ordered a printer and paper (which we needed, but not a no-buy)
11/16 - out to lunch ($11)
11/17 - no buy 6/10

 

[Shughart]

November 1 - No spend day #1: Gas, credit card payments, groceries and a purchase for the play my daughter is in that was reimbursed 100%
November 2 - No spend day #2: Topped up kid's lunch accounts for 2 weeks
November 3 - No spend day #3: Car payment
November 4 - Rental insurance & hulu; video store for the girls sleepover and Subway for all of us for dinner.
November 5 - No spend day #4: A few groceries that didn't make it to the list
November 6 - No spend day #5: Absolutely nothing
November 7 - No spend #6: Absolutely nothing
November 8 - Ended up grabbing Culver's because 2 scout events and a rehearsal means tired Mom.
November 9 - No spend day #7: Absolutely nothing
November 10 - No spend day #8: Absolutely nothing
November 11 - $9.70 for flowers for my daughter for opening night.
November 12 - No spend day #9: Absolutely nothing
November 13 - No spend day #10: Absolutely nothing
November 14 - No spend day #11, 2 bills and gas, don't count those.
November 15 - SPEND ALL THE MONEY CUZ IT'S PAYDAY
November 16 - No spend #12: Absolutely nothing
November 17 - No spend #13: Absolutely nothing

No spend days 13/25 this is super hard for me because I'm a browse the aisles at target for fun kind of gal.

 

[khmorgan]

November 1- no buy (1)
November 2- $7 lunch, $800 flights for December trip.
November 3- no buy (2)
November 4- $50 dinner with the family
November 5- I loaded the cards today, $450 for food and gas between DH's and my cards, $200 on winter clothes for the kids.
November 6- $5 Starbucks, $150 more kids clothes.
November 7- no buy (3)
November 8- no buy (4)
November 9- no buy (5)
November 10- $4 coffee, $200 birthday/Christmas gift for MIL, $300 the first of many bills from DS's broken arm.
November 11- no buy (6)
November 12- lunch, and dessert for dinner $50. Target for new pillows for everyone, bedding for the guest room, and Christmas decorations $160.
November 13- $60 Bed bath and beyond.
November 14- no buy (7)
November 15- no buy (8)
November 16- No buy (9)
November 17- Starbucks for myself and co-workers $12, $30 target, for school stuff, $52 @ Amazon for Christmas presents.