NOvemBUY (November No Buy)...All Are Welcome!

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 1/15
Gas : 34$ (max 85$)
Car : 74$ (oil & tire change)
Groceries : 52$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 0$ (max 150$)
Non-necessities : 30$ (max 250$)

01/11 : 35$ (groceries)
02/11 : 0$
03/11 : 155$ (gas, groceries, changing tires)

 

[charming23]

Another $0 day for me as my stomach flu is back and I felt like going nowhere. I was going to run out today and get TS3 but my grandma heard I was sick and bought it for me instead, she even printed out the coupon to use. She is the sweetest grandma ever.

Groceries- $200/$152.65 Left
Household/Pet-$50/$48.15left
Thanksgiving food-$50
Gas/Car-$50
Entertainment/Eating out- $50
Misc-$75/$64.30 left

Total-$475/$415.10

Goal of 15 no buy days

Week One
11/1- $47.35 groceries, $1.85 cat litter, and $10.70 Post office
11/2- $0
11/3- $0
11/4-
11/5-
11/6-
11/7-

2/15 No Buy

Coupon and Store Savings- $13.03

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $68.15
$0 Days:1/10

Groceries ($200)- $15.67
Eating Out ($100)- $10.13
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $42.35

Decided to start a weekly budget, maybe this way I won't get too discouraged

WEEK 1:
$24.33 left Groceries
$9.87 left Eating Out
$0 left Misc.

WEEK 2:
$46.67 left Groceries
$23.33 left Eating Out
$44.32 left Misc.

WEEK 1 BEGIN:
1- $0
2- $7.27 (Walgreens-Groceries), $2.30 (Jewel-Groceries), $2.39 (Dominick's-Groceries), $10.13 (McDonald's-Eating Out) (Coupon Savings-$32.20) (Sale Savings- $40.20)
3- $42.35 (Toys R Us- TS3, wall clock, popcorn tin, and Phineas and Ferb xmas special- Got Back a $10 GC and $5 in Rewards money), $2.23 (Walgreens-Groceries), $1.48 (CVS-Groceries) (Coupon Savings- $33) (Sale Savings- $36)
4- Target and CVS
5- No Spend?!?
6- Oil Change
WEEK 2 BEGIN:



Budget: $500....14%
Month: 3/30: 10%

My savings from coupons ($65.20) and sales ($76.20): $141.40

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Feel Better Charming, and your grandma does sound sweet though mine might give her a run for the title!)

 

[MissBritt]

1 $0
2 $28.79 JCP and Walmart (baby clothes)
3 $37.88 Walgreens (prenatals, diapers, toilet paper, bread)
4 $0

Total- $66.67
$0 Days- 2/13

 

[lattemomof3]

Hi everyone, I'm late to the party again, but jumping in anyway! I did keep track in October but did'nt post my last week (or so?) on the Oct. no-buy, by the time I hopped on to do it the November one was up, so I guess I'll start again! I think I'll try thebigkahuna's tactic and just post my no-spend days this month. I keep track of spending in a notebook, but for some reason I can't manage to get it posted consistently on here.

So, my goals for this month are to : 1. post my no-spend days (aiming for 10), and 2. actually fininshing posting my no-spend days!
Here's hoping for my first no-spend of the month today!

Hope you feel better soon, Charming, stomache flu is no fun!

 

[Siouxstone]

So, I comb through the thread looking for where I posted my budget and I realize I haven't! I had it all written out and by the computer, and I remember getting on the Dis, but I am easily distracted by shiny objects sometimes.
November is going to be a weird one for me. We haven't nailed down our Thanksgiving plans, and if we go to my inlaws, there will be a lot of gas as well as two hotel nights involved. We also haven't decided what I'm doing with my last weekend off for the year, though many ideas (not all of them frugle) have been batted around. Then, I have to start deciding on Xmas gifts, DS needs more cool weather uniforms, HP7 comes out and my NOOKcolor will be in around the 19th. OUCH! Oh, and the book fair next week at school!

11/1-$0
11/2-$18 Macalisters for lunch
11/3-$8 groceries/household, $88 long sleeve t's and pants for DS


Budget-
Groceries/Household/Dog- $750 (bigger in case we T-day here, $742 left)
Gas- $160
DH pocket money- $80
HP7-$40
Weekend of the 13th- $200
Tday away-$250 (will only touch if we leave town)
NOOKcolor-$300, but some in hoarded gift cards already
Clothing-$200 ($112 left)
Eating out-$100 ($82 left)
Medical-$80
Xmas-$500
Bookfair-$15

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I have completed 10 months of my 12 month goal and am excited for November. This month we are headed to Disney, so my goal is 8 for the days I am in town.

November 1-$0 Anyone who knows me knows I have to start the month with one or I don't do well for some reason. So, I made do with groceries today and made it a November 1st No Spend Day!

November 2- Today was a BIG spending day, but comes with some explination.
$5 for DD11's School Lock In Friday Night
$5 For DD8's Family Night at School Friday Night
$86 Dance Tuition (I don't count this towards a $0 day as it is a bill to me, but since I pay it and DH doens't I like to record it)
$21.55 Gas, I like to top it off whenever I am at Sam's so I never run low, it is so much cheaper there.
$17.94 Bread Outlet (Love it there, I got 2 loaves of breakfast breads, 18 bagels, a thing of engish muffins, a jar of jam and 20 packs of mini muffins.)
$39.68 Walmart, Toy Story 3 Blue Ray/DVD set and a few groceries.
$47.77 Wegman's-Groceries
$43.96 Target-3 new DS games for the car ride to Disney and a few bags of little packs of Animal Crackers, a buck a bag in the Halloween Candy, good for in the car.
$19.42 Walgreen's- $5 DD owes me back, she bought a Minnie Witch on the clearance rack that movies and plays "I Want Candy" and I did a very unplanned but beloved purchase, they had a Mickey Snowman that lights up and changes colors for $13. I collect Mickey and I collect snowmen so I bought this. I'd have blown a $0 day for this guy, he's so cute and I am looking at him now and he is making me so it was worth it!
$384.48-Sam's BUT, here is the explination. I bought almost $200 in Gift Cards, $110 for Disney and $85 for Outback (where DH and I always go for dates, it's our favorite!) AND, they only sometimes have the different flavor of water that we drink. We were never until about 6 months ago bottled water people, but DH started drinking the flavored water insted of soda, not a savings but better for him. Well the kids started drinking it and I like that they will cause none of them were ever water drinkers so I caved and have been buying a case a week since. Well they have 2 packs of flavors and they like both but one more then the other and Sam's only has it about once every other month so when I went yesterday and saw they had it, I bought 5 cases. So that is $50 in water and $10 in deposit on the bottles. Add to that that I need to get my freezer stocked with dinners before we go on vacation so I bought a lot of meat and Ziplocks and yo uget a very high Sam's bill!
Today will be a $0 day. I am staying in and cooking all day. We get back from Disney and the week is packed with me volunteering at the Santa's Secret Shop all week, and getting the house decorated and just getting back into the routine so I like to have lots of dinners made and ready to just pop in the oven when we are gone. In fact I am going to go ahead and call today...
November 3-$0
November 4-$0


November No Spend Days 3/8
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Happy About Record Since Joining No Buy-
January-14 Days
February-13 Days
March-17 Days
April-15 Days
May-15 Days
June-8 Days
July- 6 Days (only in town and only recorded half the month, probably had about 7-8 no buys while away)
August-15 Days
September-15 Days
October-13 Days
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row

 

[Tiggerish]

The November budget is $1115 with 10 no spend days.

Auto $75
Eating Out/Entertainment $150 / $140 left
Giving $25
Groceries/Household Goods $250 / $244 left
Medical $100
Misc. $100 /$70 left
Set bills $415 / $290 left

No spend days goal = 2 of 10
Coupon savings = $1.35
Christmas 2010 running total of spending = $421
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11/1 Entertainment $10 (ticket to see college theatre production where niece is the stage manager) Misc. $30 (clothes)
11/2 Set bills $125; Groceries $6
11/3 $0
11/4 $0

 

[annsteere]

Targets: 10 no spend days, 0 fast food except on the road for Thanksgiving, 0 impulse buys until Thanksgiving

11/3 - 0
11/4 -

Tomorrow I'll be driving past Target and will stop in and see if I can spot any of those meat packages with the red stickers. THANKS to my DIS teacher

 

[lougoofy]

11/03/10: no buy
11/04/10: $1.50 bus fare and $1.06 a sandwich

 

[Virgderon]

Charming, I sure hope you feel better soon. Ann, Good luck! Don't forget to print out the coupons at target.com before you go.

Spent a few bucks today but it came out of my Christmas club money, so I won't post it here. I'll probably be doing the same tomorrow- some of my gifts I need to get online.

Running Total: Spent $102
$1000 budget...$ 898
$0 Days: 2
Goal is 9 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 24

Groceries budget- $250-8-12-49=$181 left

November 1: $20 (12 gas, 8 groceries)
November 2: $82 ( 12 pop, 5 dinner at bowling, 16 bowling, 49 groceries)
November 3: 0
November 4: 0

 

[fairyprincess1]

Goal: 12 No Buy days

11/1 $0
11/2 spend - didn't bring my lunch cuz I was going to take a co-worker out for her birthday... then she needed to postpone
11/3 spend - had to run out & get milk, plus invites for DS's bday...
11/4 so far so good, but it is Bunco night, so I know I'll be putting in my cash for that... Hope this weekend is better - not such a great start for Nov!!


1/12 No Spend Days...
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[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 2/15
Gas : 34$ (max 85$)
Car : 74$ (oil & tire change)
Groceries : 52$ (max 250$)
Eating out (and snacks) : 0$ (max 150$)
Non-necessities : 30$ (max 250$)

01/11 : 35$ (groceries)
02/11 : 0$
03/11 : 155$ (gas, groceries, changing tires)
04/11 : 0$

 

[wlake]

It looks like lots of people are off to strong starts!

The latest:
11/1: $42 for last week's after school care, $? for the PO (been avoiding that trip for almost 3 weeks, so I don't really want to know, but I suppose I'll have to ask later), $62 on clothes, and $140 for indoor soccer registration for the boys (ouch, but I was able to get the late fee waived because I didn't even know this place had indoor soccer until Sat., and the deadline was of course Fri.! That was really nice of them.) Starting off with a huge day!
11/2: $30 for the school fundraiser (beautiful wreath though!), $32 for gas, ? for grinders but DH picked them up so I'll have to ask.
11/3: $14 at the book fair
11/4:

My first one! Tomorrow is a buy day as I need to pay for after school care, and heaven knows the weekend will be! I'm hoping for Monday again.

no buy days: 0/10
dinners out: 1/5

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $68.15
$0 Days:2/10

Groceries ($200)- $15.67
Eating Out ($100)- $10.13
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $42.35

Decided to start a weekly budget, maybe this way I won't get too discouraged

WEEK 1:
$24.33 left Groceries
$9.87 left Eating Out
$0 left Misc.

WEEK 2:
$46.67 left Groceries
$23.33 left Eating Out
$44.32 left Misc.

WEEK 1 BEGIN:
1- $0
2- $7.27 (Walgreens-Groceries), $2.30 (Jewel-Groceries), $2.39 (Dominick's-Groceries), $10.13 (McDonald's-Eating Out) (Coupon Savings-$32.20) (Sale Savings- $40.20)
3- $42.35 (Toys R Us- TS3, wall clock, popcorn tin, and Phineas and Ferb xmas special- Got Back a $10 GC and $5 in Rewards money), $2.23 (Walgreens-Groceries), $1.48 (CVS-Groceries) (Coupon Savings- $33) (Sale Savings- $36)
4- $0
5- Target and CVS
6- Oil Change and we will be eating out for lunch I assume.
WEEK 2 BEGIN:



Budget: $500....14%
Month: 4/30: 13%

My savings from coupons ($65.20) and sales ($76.20): $141.40

 

[Bribrittmom]

I am going to count no buy days as days I spend no money I haven't budgeted for!

11/1: 9.75 postage
11/2:no buy
11/3: no buy
11/4: 5.30 ice cream.

I budget for groceries and eating out so I don't count those unless I go over my budget.Works for me!

11/5: $5.00 over budget for lunch.
11/6:no buy
11/7:$198.00 plus tax for new t.v. at walmart

 

[charming23]

Charming, I sure hope you feel better soon.

Hope you feel better soon, Charming, stomache flu is no fun!

Feel Better Charming, and your grandma does sound sweet though mine might give her a run for the title!)

Thanks for all the well wishes. I went to the doctor today and it turns out he thinks it is an intestinenal flu because of the pain I was in. So a two doses of muscle relaxers later I feel pretty good.

I went to the doctor today and got a prescription but I do not count medical in my no buy days. My mom however did run out to get popsicles and smart water for me.

Groceries- $200/$143.65 Left
Household/Pet-$50/$48.15left
Thanksgiving food-$50
Gas/Car-$50
Entertainment/Eating out- $50
Misc-$75/$64.30 left

Total-$475/$406.10

Goal of 15 no buy days

Week One
11/1- $47.35 groceries, $1.85 cat litter, and $10.70 Post office
11/2- $0
11/3- $0
11/4- $9 groceries
11/5-
11/6-
11/7-

2/15 No Buy

Coupon and Store Savings- $13.03

 

[ChisJo]

Ok - here goes!

Week 1:
Nov 1: 120 groceries, $35 fuel
Nov 2: 0
Nov 3: 0
Nov 4: 14.15 (was supposed to be a no buy day, but we had to get some groceries to make dinner)
Nov 5: This is a buy day....groceries.
Nov 6: no buy day
Nov 7: no buy day

Week 2:
should have 4 no buy days here this week (these coincide with my hectic work schedule!)

Budget for the month:
Groceries: $500
Fuel: $50
Entertainment: $100
Gifts: (its my hubbies 40th this month...) $500

Good job so far everyone!

 

[Virgderon]

I wanted another 0 buy day, but I needed meds for whatever this allergy or cold thing is that I have. I picked up some cleaning stuff since I was already blowing my 0 spend day.

Added at 7:51 pm: You know what happens when your commission check is much, much more than you thought it would be? Nothing good. Went to Publix and bought stuff that we never buy: real maple syrup, magazines, carrot cake, raspberries not on sale, non generic waffles.... I feel kind of dirty.

Running Total: Spent $156
$1000 budget...$ 844
$0 Days: 2
Goal is 9 or more!
coupon/sale savings : 33

Groceries budget- $250-8-12-49-35=$146 left

November 1: $20 (12 gas, 8 groceries)
November 2: $82 ( 12 pop, 5 dinner at bowling, 16 bowling, 49 groceries)
November 3: 0
November 4: 0
November 5: 54 ( meds cleaning stuff, 35 groceries)