The big "no buy in July" thread!

[Tiggerish]

Budget for July is $1000 with 10 no spend days.

Auto $60 / $37
Eating Out/Entertainment $100 /$83
Giving $125 /$75
Groceries/Household Goods $300 / $199
Medical $265 / $255
Misc. $150 / $129

No spend days = 7 /10
Coupon savings = $19.35
Christmas 2010 running total of spending = $16

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7/1 Groceries $20
7/2 $0
7/3 Groceries $43; Misc. $10 (new Mickey Mouse watch)
7/4 Giving $25 (church); Groceries $6
7/5 $0
7/6 Groceries $3; Medical $10 (3 month prescription)
7/7 $0
7/8 $0
7/9 $0
7/10 Eating Out $17 (ice cream treats); Groceries $29
7/11 Giving $25 (church)
7/12 Auto $23 (Gas); Misc $11 (treats for nieces and nephew)
7/13 $0
7/14 $0

 

[thebigkahuna]

07-01 $9.00 dinner.
07-02 $11.65 lunch
07-03 $0!
07-04 $0!!
07-05 $5.78 Kmart
07-06 $1.00 vending machine ice cream! $16.00 misc.
07-07 $0!
07-08 $0!
07-09 $16 movies $11 gift
07/10 $31 dinner, $8 drug store PLUS $5.00
07/11 $0!
07/12 $5 & change - lunch
07/13 $15.70 post office
07/14 $6.53 breakfast

No $pend days: 5 / 12

 

[ronnmel]

FINALLY a No Buy day!!!

No Buy Days : 1/10
Gas :
Car repairs :
Groceries : 148$
Eating out (and snacks) : 140$
Non-necessities : 274$

7/01 : 12$ (greeting cards)
7/02 : 16$ (groceries)
7/03 : 40$ (groceries + sunscreen)
7/04 : 110$ (water park day)
7/05 : 28$ (groceries)
7/06 - 7/08 : 110$ (camping, groceries, sunscreen, etc.)
7/09 : 40$ (cat food & litter)
7/10 : 80$ (eating out)
7/11 : 46$ (toaster + camping chair)
7/12 : 80$ (groceries + clothes)
7/13 : 0$

 

[Jen_in_NH]

7/1 - $0
7/2 - $10 for dinner when I got held over at work for an extra 5 hours.
7/3 - $5 for milk
7/4 - $12 for food at work. I really need to go grocery shopping...
7/5 - $0
7/6 - $15 for food at work and Rite Aid-ing. I still need to go grocery shopping
7/7 - $13 for a co-workers kids' fundriaser
7/8 - $5 for dinner at work since I got held over for another 3 hours....
7/9 - $40 for gas and milk
7/10 - $175 for groceries, $8 for a baby shower present.
7/11 - $20. I wussed out and got Olive Garden for lunch
7/12 - $0
7/13 - $7 at Rite Aid. Not sure if I count it, as I'm getting $10 back in SCRs
7/14 - $0

Total for the month: $310
Budget remaining for the month: $690

 

[SunnieRN]

July goals:
13 No buy days (after set bills)
Grocery: $400/-$153, $97, $53
Entertainment/Eating out: $200/-$31.68, -$37.89 and $8.43

July 1: $0 (and worked on CE at home, so 5 hours overtime at work!
July 2: $153 Groceries, (including 4th of July potluck and BBQ and a crab dinner tomorrow night. LOTS of fresh fruit also! But 4 more hours OT!
July 3: $0
July 4: $0
July 5: $0
July 6: $31.68 Take out lunch (enough chinese for 2 meals)
July 7: $0 (Work tonight and tomorrow night, so be back when I can
July 8: $0
July 9: $0 (Had Dr. appt. with bad news, have to have ultrasounds, xrays and a huge amount of labs. Not looking forward to the co-pays)
July 10: $560 (We have 2 August birthdays and I got some Christmas shopping done. One birthday and about 1/2 of Christmas to go). $97 groceries.
July 11: $0
July 12: $57.58 Groceries, ok, I'm not sure what I'm doing here, but I spent another $300 today. $24.00, school supplies, the grocery money and the rest on medical and additional Christmas presents. It's a good thing I go back to work tomorrow!!
July 13: $0! ! Finally! Dinner in the oven, getting ready for work!
July 14: $0! And a piece of great news! They called from the hospital to pre register me for my ultrasound Friday and I have a $0 co pay!!! Since we work together, the person on the phone and I both voiced our amazement, since our insurance is, ummm, not so good.

10/13 No Buy Days!
Added to Savings: $115/$400
Christmas 65% complete, one birthday completely DONE!

OK, I am back from being away and ready to rejoin!

I also soooo wanted to get my Bon Jovi loving kids these shirts that said "Mom Mom went to Bon Jovi and Never Came Back" but at $30 for DD8 and DD11 and $40 for DD15 I took a picture of them and showed them instead!

Welcome back! Glad you had such a good time at the concert and Woo hoo for resisting the temptation of those awesome sounding t-shirts!!

 

[Virgderon]

Every bit helps Sunnie! 0 coPay is a good day!

Another 0 spend day, but there is trouble around the corner.... Disney and Universal weekends coming up....

Running Total: Spent $359
$1150 budget...$791 left
$0 Days: 7
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon savings $77

Groceries budget- $200-4-2-35-9-30... 120 left

July 1 0
July 2 0
July 3 14 (8 misc, 2 book, 4 lunchmeat)
July 4 21 (16 lunch at Changs, 5 tee at Old Navy)
July 5 163 (misc at Disney, 2 pop)
July 6 0
July 7 35 (groceries)
July 8 23 ( Walgreens- 9 pop)
July 9 84 ( haircut, groceries)
July 10 0
July 11 0
July 12 0
July 13 19 ( office supplies, misc Walgreens)
July 14 0

 

[thebeesknees]

7/1 $22.95 LL Bean
7/2 $50 groceries
7/3 $0
7/4 $0
7/5 $0
7/6 $0
7/7 $0
7/8 $0
7/9 $56 Walmart, $120 Sam's Club
7/10 $.81 Post Office, $10 Dollar Tree
7/11 $0
7/12 $0
7/13 $48 Target 3 pair of shoes for kids, bathroom stuff and birthday present
7/14 $60 Children's Place clothes for next summer, $6 Walmart, $20 JoAnn

8/12 no-buy days

 

[figaromeetsmarie]

July Budget:

Grocery- $205.06/300
Household- $50
Eating out/ Entertaiment- $25.80/50
Misc- $100

Total- $500

Goal of 8 no buy days



July 1st- No Buy Day
July 2nd-$30.00 groceries $20 eating out
July 4th- No buy Day
July 5th-No buy Day
July 6th-$11.10 groceries
7th-No buy
8th-No buy
9th-$11.04 groceries
11th-$15.68 groceries
12th-$27.12 groceries
13th-No Buy
14th-$4.20 lunch

Grocery Coupon Savings $179.27

 

[MissBritt]

7/1 $73.19 WinnDixie (saved 58.04)
7/2 $52.74 Pubix (saved 57.84)
7/3 $34.30 Gas, $17.87 Post office, $50 Sephora (gift), $6.41 The Body Shop (gift), $15.00 Etsy (gift), -$5.34 Return
7/4 $14.00 Movie & snacks (Grown Ups)
7/5 $20.25 Movie & snacks (Toy Story 3), $28.00 Dinner out (1/6)
7/6 $0
7/7 $53.38 Sephora (makeup!!!), $14.18 WinnDixie (saved 8.88)
7/8 $0
7/9 $0
7/10 $36 Gas, $40.26 Walmart, $6.40 Borders (gift), $31.26 Target (gift)
7/11 $17.47 Dinner out (2/6), $1.60 Newspaper
7/12 $0
7/13 $0
7/14 $0

Groceries 140.11 (saved 124.76)
Dinner Out 45.47 (2/6)
Gas 70.30
Gifts 122.01
Entertainment 34.25
Incidentals 100.17
Returns -5.34

TOTALS:
497.07
$0 DAYS- 6/10

 

[3girlsfun]

7-9--$1 parking garage fee at dr.'s office (ugh, almost was a no spend!)
7-10--$37 for weekly family lunch, $20 gas, $30 for house needs, and upcoming trip needs at Dollar General, Sonic $3.50 for drinks
7-11--$4.58 Home Depot, $47.22 Logan's for lunch. $158 Walmart (don't take family to Walmart!!!!!) $15 Walgreens, prescription \

7-12--$20 gas, $1 Dollar General, $5.68 Taco Bell
7-13----No Buy!
7-14---$61, groceries, and I donated about $500 worth of stuff to the Goodwill!

1/8

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I am back from being away and ready to rejoin! Goal for the month is 7.

July 13- Groceries $26
July 14-Full on grocery shopping, first one in 2+ weeks. $121 Higher then usual but I just realized I didn't spend anything on groceries for over 2 weeks! That is a huge savings! Also, DH and I went and shared an ice cream after his doctor's appointment $3.50 TOTAL-$124.50

No Buy Days-0/7

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
Longest Streak-4 Days in a Row!

 

[elfbo]

Since i started late this month, i was going to go with a measly one no buy day each week, but i had 3 days in a row this week. So .. heres to 8 no buy days this month

3/8 0$ Days

 

[Cindy-rella]

Trip to Wal-mart for back 2 school stuff - $8.77.
Groceries bill is low, due to visiting my parents!

Budget
Groceries $440, Spent $94.00
4 no buys out of 12

 

[dreamer310]

7/1- 40.28 Staples/22.23 Petco
7/2- 0
7/3- 0
7/4- 0
7/5- 20.00 Gas/14.33 Farmer's Market
7/6- 0
7/7- 6.66 Kmart---666 spending is evil!!
7/8- 0
7/9- 31.13 Groceries/15.02 Gas
7/10-0
7/11- 0
7/12-17.00 Pizza
7/13- 19.64 Groceries
7/14- 0


8/15

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 1/10
Gas : 20$
Car repairs :
Groceries : 158$
Eating out (and snacks) : 140$
Non-necessities : 349$

7/01 : 12$ (greeting cards)
7/02 : 16$ (groceries)
7/03 : 40$ (groceries + sunscreen)
7/04 : 110$ (water park day)
7/05 : 28$ (groceries)
7/06 - 7/08 : 110$ (camping, groceries, sunscreen, etc.)
7/09 : 40$ (cat food & litter)
7/10 : 80$ (eating out)
7/11 : 46$ (toaster + camping chair)
7/12 : 100$ (groceries + gas + clothes)
7/13 : 0$
7/14 : 85$ (app + groceries)

 

[charming23]

Mickeymomofthree, I am glad to hear you had a good time at your concert. $45 is not bad for a t-shirt. My adam one was $40.

Spent the day out with my cousins. We went to lunch and then a movie.

July Budget:

Grocery- $200/ $122.48 left
Household/Beauty- $50/ 40.38 Left
Car/Gas- $50/ $25.62 left
Eating out/ Entertaiment- $50/$30 left
Misc- $50/$38.24

Total- $400/$271.72 left

Goal of 10 no buy days

7/1- $11.76 at Kmart
7/2- Out of town
7/3- Out of town
7/4- Out of town
7/5- $0
7/6- $61.16 at Marc's for groceries
7/7- $0
7/8- $0
7/9- $24.38 Gas and $9.62 at Sally Beauty
7/10- $0
7/11- $0
7/12- $0
7/13- $16.36 groceries
7/14- $10 for lunch and $5 for the movie

6/10 No Buy days[/QUOTE]

 

[A.Mickey]

Running Total: Spent $572.61
$0 Days:4

Groceries ($200)- $119.76
Eating Out ($100)- $212.72
Misc. (Shopping/Entertainment) ($200) $240.13

1- $0
2- $2.76 (McDonald's- Eating Out), $1.76 (Target-Groceries), $6.72 (Walgreens-Groceries), $.74 (CVS-Groceries) $3 (Carnival-Entertainment)
3- $10 (Carnival-Entertainment), $25 (TeddyFabz-Eating Out), $3.05 (Jewel-Groceries)
4- $7 (Dollar Tree-Shopping), $12.99 (Jewel-Groceries), $23 (Carnival-Entertainment)
5- $26 (Carnival-Eating Out)
6- $7.60 (McDonald's-Eating Out), $3.82 (Jewel-Groceries)
7- $0
8- $8.36 (Wendy's-Eating Out), $3.91 (CVS-Groceries), $12.94 (Joe Caputo-Groceries), $30.86 (Target-Groceries)
9- $40 (Gino's East-Eating Out), $65 (Meijer-Camping Gear)
10- $11 (Blueberry Picking), $130 (Toys), $38 (Eating Out- Ice Cream, lunch and dinner)
11- $7 (Jewel-Groceries), $50 (Eating Out- Great America & Botanical Gardens)
12- $0
13- $0
14- $2.13 (Between Staples and Office Depot after my rebates...I really needed printer paper, was completely out and I now I have 2,000 sheets, colored pencils, highlighters, pencil sharpner, white board, and a cool thing to help my 3 year old learn to write letters), $18.69 (Trader Joes-Groceries), $15 (McDonald's- Eating Out), $2.28 (CVS-Groceries), $4 (Jewel-Groceries)



$0 Days: 4: 27%
Budget: $700....82%
Month: 14/31: 45%

My savings from coupons and sales: $379.50

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

Goals: 15 $0 Buy days
Max spending $500 for gas, food (groceries & eating out), and miscellaneous.

01 - $0!
02 - $0!
03 - $82.80 Winn-Dixie (Saved $34.85)
04 - $0!
05 - $0!
06 - $0!
07 - $57.15 Walmart, gas, brake tag, dinner out
08 - $2.45 I just HAD to have a snoball!
09 - $22.45 lunch out with friends
10 - $23.05 zoo & bracelets
11 - $0!
12 - $90.49 Walmart, Popeyes
13 - $0!
14 - 42.71 snoball, Canes, gas, Rouses

Totals:
$0 Buy: 7/15..................47%
Spending: $321.10/$500...64%
Days in Month: 13/31.......45%

Averages:
$500/31 days= $16.13
$321.10/14days= $22.94

 

[loritemp]

Morning!

Managed another no buy day yesterday so

7/12 no buy days!

I gave DH a run down yesterday of how I am doing with our budget (I am the money manger in the family, frightening as that is). He was really impressed, made me smile!

And because we have paid off pretty much every single debt we had and are really increasing savings, we decided to take the leap...we made and accepted an offer on a DVC membership yesterday! I am over the moon happy!! Just amkes sticking to my budget that much easier knowing the payoff will be fun in the sun at Disney!

 

[thebigkahuna]

07-01 $9.00 dinner.
07-02 $11.65 lunch
07-03 $0!
07-04 $0!!
07-05 $5.78 Kmart
07-06 $1.00 vending machine ice cream! $16.00 misc.
07-07 $0!
07-08 $0!
07-09 $16 movies $11 gift
07/10 $31 dinner, $8 drug store PLUS $5.00
07/11 $0!
07/12 $5 & change - lunch
07/13 $15.70 post office
07/14 $6.53 breakfast
07/15 PLUS $27.50!

No $pend days: 5 / 12