September No Buy!! FALL into savings!

[stayhomemom77]

Food $142.81
Gasoline $200
WAM $61
Goal: 22 No Buy Days

September
1-$0
2-$0
3-$10.00 school agendas, $1.85 Bulk Barn, $1.40 Dollar Store, $57.19 groceries, $0.75 Disney jar
4-$0
5-$0
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4/22

 

[artemis4]

Back to basics for a while is my goal. So, regular bills, regular grocery and gas are okay. No clothes, no more new curric, no splurges. Dining out for the month limited to our upcoming overnight date and two other times. Limit drives to the city to two.

1 - $0
2 - paid all of our regular monthly bills, but nothing else $0
3 - $0
4 - (-$132.88) Our annual math subscription renews every Sept. (It's a planned expense we have budgeted for every Sept, so I didn't count it as new curric.) I found it on a Homeschool Buyers Coop group buy for less than the normal family discount cost. I saved >$43 per child x 3 kids. Happy dance!
5 - $0
6 - $5 The flower bouquets at the farmers market got me
7 - $12 for a cheese slicer husband had to have. It was our planned overnight date, so the dining out was allowed.
8 - $0
9 - $0
10 - $147 Sale on contact lenses, so I stocked up for another year using my math curric savings and a little extra.
11 - $19 semi-annual vanilla bean order
12 - regular groceries
13 - $0
14 - $0
15 - $0
16 - Allowed Dining Out #1 ($25 take out pizza with enough left over for the kids lunch tomorrow)

Net non-regular expense: $53

 

[GraceMonica]

Remaining:
Groceries $300.24
Household goods $24.15
Gas $52.14
Miscellaneous $33.17

September:
1...$0 so far so good!
2...$0
3...$0
4...$0
5...Dinner @ Jimmy Johns $16.83, Gas $27.86, Household: $75.85, Grocery: $99.76 ($86 to the Disney fund)
6...$0
7...$0

6/20 no buy days.

 

[charming23]

Yesterday I worked an open to close so no buying for me.

Today I had lunch with my best friend and stopped at the grocery.

9/1- $28.02 Gas and $8.02 Dinner at work
9/2- $0
9/3- $0
9/4- $0
9/5- $78.89 Old Navy, $125.32 target (groceries/household), $3.62 Starbucks, & $8.89 bakery
9/6- $0
9/7- $23.44 Lunch at Barrio and $52.00 Giant eagle

4/15 No buy days

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 20 no-buy days

September
1-$12.95 for a cab to work since the buses weren't running
2-$0
3-$0
4-$3.58 cupcake truck
5-$0 One day at a time!
6-$0
7-$0
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5/20

 

[stayhomemom77]

Food $121.64
Gasoline $106.44
WAM $56.60
Goal: 20 No Buy Days

September
1-$0
2-$0
3-$10.00 school agendas, $1.85 Bulk Barn, $1.40 Dollar Store, $57.19 groceries, $0.75 Disney jar
4-$0
5-$0
6-$26.00 gasoline, $21.17 groceries, $2.20 Bulk Barn
7-$57.56 gasoline, $2.08 Tim Hortons
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4/20

**My two year old niece, who has epilepsy had a bad seizure on Saturday afternoon and she stopped breathing. They could not resuscitate her and she slipped away from us. My family lives 360 kms/220 miles away from us so we had a few extra expenses this weekend (gasoline mostly), because we went down there. We will go again for the funeral later this week. Hoping this does not throw us off budget but it is what it is. I changed my goal to 20 days and we will take any overages in budget from the savings account.

 

[charming23]

Stayhomemom77, I am sorry to hear about your niece. Keeping your family in my thoughts.

Today I went to work and came home.

9/1- $28.02 Gas and $8.02 Dinner at work
9/2- $0
9/3- $0
9/4- $0
9/5- $78.89 Old Navy, $125.32 target (groceries/household), $3.62 Starbucks, & $8.89 bakery
9/6- $0
9/7- $23.44 Lunch at Barrio and $52.00 Giant eagle
9/8- $0

5/15 No buy days

 

[GraceMonica]

Remaining:
Groceries $283.05
Household goods $24.15
Gas $52.14
Miscellaneous $33.17

September:
1...$0 so far so good!
2...$0
3...$0
4...$0
5...Dinner @ Jimmy Johns $16.83, Gas $27.86, Household: $75.85, Grocery: $99.76 ($86 to the Disney fund)
6...$0
7...$0
8...$17.19 Groceries. DH wanted my homemade fried chicken for dinner. So I picked up a few items

6/20 no buy days.

 

[EpiStitch]

stayhomemom77, I am so sorry to hear about your niece.

Goal: 20 no-buy days

September
1-$12.95 for a cab to work since the buses weren't running
2-$0
3-$0
4-$3.58 cupcake truck
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0
8-$0
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6/20

I'm sure later in the month will be much harder when I move, so I'm doing whatever I can now.

 

[stayhomemom77]

Food $40
Gasoline $106.44
WAM $56.60
Goal: 20 No Buy Days

September
1-$0
2-$0
3-$10.00 school agendas, $1.85 Bulk Barn, $1.40 Dollar Store, $57.19 groceries, $0.75 Disney jar
4-$0
5-$0
6-$26.00 gasoline, $21.17 groceries, $2.20 Bulk Barn
7-$57.56 gasoline, $2.08 Tim Hortons
8-$81.09 groceries (making up a bunch of freezer meals for my sister and her family)
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4/20

**Heading out of town for the funeral home tonight so there will be extra gasoline/grocery/spending money expenses. We will be back Saturday, so either that day or Monday I will try and balance the budget and track the rest of this week.

Thank you for your kind words regarding the loss of my niece.

 

[star72232]

stayathomemom77 - I'm so sorry to hear about your niece. (((HUGS)))

So, this month is hard! Back to school stuff is still popping up.

I'm looking for 15 no buy days.

I'm not going to track regular bills or gas, but I will be tracking groceries and all other purchases.

total no buy days to date - 3/30

September
1-$0
2-$0
3-$7.50 (grocery store)
4-$16 (school agendas)
5-$112.58 (groceries), $43.40 (butcher), $50 (massage - will get this back from insurance)
6-$0
7-$45.00 (Walmart - shoes for MDS, stuff for doing some canning)
8-$25.91 (Target - gym clothes for DD), $197.71 (DH got a new GPS)
9-$28.31 (grocery store)

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 20 no-buy days

September
1-$12.95 for a cab to work since the buses weren't running
2-$0
3-$0
4-$3.58 cupcake truck
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0
8-$0
9-$0
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7/20

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 20 no-buy days

September
1-$12.95 for a cab to work since the buses weren't running
2-$0
3-$0
4-$3.58 cupcake truck
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0
8-$0
9-$0
10-$0
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8/20!

I was supposed to find out if I was approved for my mortgage today and didn't get the call yet, so I guess I'll wait to celebrate once I actually get the keys. I know I'll have a harder time doing no buy once I have a place to decorate.

Thanks for helping me stay on track!

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 20 no-buy days

September
1-$12.95 for a cab to work since the buses weren't running
2-$0
3-$0
4-$3.58 cupcake truck
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0
8-$0
9-$0
10-$0
11-$8.83 for lunch with coworkers, I've fallen off the wagon!
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[melissalee]

No buy September
1- $45 Walmart (dog stuff)
2-$0
3-$0
4- $174 ( baby shower gift but splitting btw 5 ppl) $79 petco (special dog food baths x2)
5- $13 Safeway $198 southwest flight
6-$0
7-$15 Michael's $47 Safeway
8-$0
9-$76 Williams Sonoma (birthday/thank you gift) $25 amazon
10-$0
11-$0
12-$46 gas $20 (52 week savings) $35 Safeway $17 Home Depot $16 hobby lobby

6 days of no spending so far. Need to hunker down on the 2nd half to the month. It's gonna be hard because I'm flying home on the 24-27th. But I'm flying home for free (on friends companion pass) only $180 for my flight back. I get to see my new kitchen and finally unpack my wedding presents!!! (Got married in January!)

 

[GraceMonica]

Remaining:
Groceries $283.05
Household goods $24.15
Gas $52.14
Miscellaneous $15.54

September:
1...$0 so far so good!
2...$0
3...$0
4...$0
5...Dinner @ Jimmy Johns $16.83, Gas $27.86, Household: $75.85, Grocery: $99.76 ($86 to the Disney fund)
6...$0
7...$0
8...$17.19 Groceries.
9...$0
10.$0
11.$0
12.$17.61 Dinner

9/20 no buy days.

 

[star72232]

I'm looking for 15 no buy days.

I'm not going to track regular bills or gas, but I will be tracking groceries and all other purchases.

total no buy days to date - 5/30

September
1-$0
2-$0
3-$7.50 (grocery store)
4-$16 (school agendas)
5-$112.58 (groceries), $43.40 (butcher), $50 (massage - will get this back from insurance)
6-$0
7-$45.00 (Walmart - shoes for MDS, stuff for doing some canning)
8-$25.91 (Target - gym clothes for DD), $197.71 (DH got a new GPS)
9-$28.31 (grocery store)
10-$192.94 (Costco)
11-$0
12-$41.05 (pizza),
13-$59.93 (Walmart - groceries), $48.43 (grocery store)
14-$0

 

[stayhomemom77]

Groceries: $100
Gasoline: $50
WAM: $14

Goal: 20 No Buy Days

September
1-$0
2-$0
3-$10.00 school agendas, $1.85 Bulk Barn, $1.40 Dollar Store, $57.19 groceries, $0.75 Disney jar
4-$0
5-$0
6-$26.00 gasoline, $21.17 groceries, $2.20 Bulk Barn
7-$57.56 gasoline, $2.08 Tim Hortons
8-$0
9-$0
10-$25 dinner out
11-$0
12-$50 groceries
13-$127 (gasoline, groceries, lunch out, dinner out)
14-$0
15-$0
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9/20

**My budget got shot to heck with the funeral travel and the fact that no one wanted to cook so we ordered out a lot. Going to see how well I can do over the next two weeks!

 

[EpiStitch]

Goal: 20 no-buy days

September
1-$12.95 for a cab to work since the buses weren't running
2-$0
3-$0
4-$3.58 cupcake truck
5-$0
6-$0
7-$0
8-$0
9-$0
10-$0
11-$8.83 for lunch with coworkers, I've fallen off the wagon!
12-$15 for parking downtown, $17 for Ebay seller fees
13-$0
14-$31 gas
15-$0
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10/20!!! Halfway through the month and halfway to my goal!!

This weekend was a little more spendy than I was expecting since I decided to surprise my mom for her birthday, but it could've been worse.

 

[artemis4]

Back to basics for a while is my goal. So, regular bills, regular grocery and gas are okay. No clothes, no more new curric, no splurges. Dining out for the month limited to our upcoming overnight date and two other times. Limit drives to the city to two.

1 - $0
2 - paid all of our regular monthly bills, but nothing else $0
3 - $0
4 - (-$132.88) Our annual math subscription renews every Sept. (It's a planned expense we have budgeted for every Sept, so I didn't count it as new curric.) I found it on a Homeschool Buyers Coop group buy for less than the normal family discount cost. I saved >$43 per child x 3 kids. Happy dance!
5 - $0
6 - $5 The flower bouquets at the farmers market got me
7 - $12 for a cheese slicer husband had to have. It was our planned overnight date, so the dining out was allowed.
8 - $0
9 - $0
10 - $147 Sale on contact lenses, so I stocked up for another year using my math curric savings and a little extra.
11 - $19 semi-annual vanilla bean order
12 - regular groceries
13 - $0
14 - $0
15 - $0
16 - Allowed Dining Out #1 ($25 take out pizza with enough left over for the kids lunch tomorrow)

Net non-regular expense: $53
0 drives to the city