The big "no buy in July" thread!

[SnowWhite607]

July 1 - $16 (ice cream and lunch)

July 2 - 98.45 at Walmart - that includes groceries for the week, cat stuff, paper products and toiletries. If I can keep this under $500 total for the month, that would be great!

17.68 (eating out)

July 3 - groceries 20.38 (meat and stuff)

July 4 - 3.03 (eating out)

July 5 - 19.93 (eating out)

July 6 - ZERO!!

July 7 - 11.72 (eating out)

July 8 - 10 - out of town

July 11 - Walmart (groceries and paper goods) 88.65
School supplies - 9.00

July 12 - school uniforms 111.90 (but I have to return one more that she changed her mind on. Plus when I got home there was a $10 off $50 coupon in the mail from Academy Sports - where I just bought all my stuff. I called and they said I could bring in my receipt and the coupon and get my ten bucks! So the total will be around 95-ish)
school supplies 53.67
birthday gift 9.00

July 13 - 0

July 14 - summer kids movie for me and DD 6.00
Lunch 13.09 (had a $2 coupon)
Bookbag, lunchbox, hair stuff 60.42
Ice cream 3.00

July 15 - took my old uniforms to the mall and got a $40 gift card for it. Also got my $10 credit back for my Academy coupon from the other day.
Sears - shirts for me 15.63
capris for DD - 10.86
CVS - stamps, etc - 10.95
Gas - 26.00

July 16 - groceries 86.85
DD sunglasses 5.00
movie rental 5.00

July 17 - 27.00 birthday gifts

July 18 - birthday dinner out 63.89

July 19 - 0

July 20 - lunch 18.45
1.50 to vaccuum the car

July 21 - 10.00 bowling and snacks
6.00 ice cream for me and DD

July 22 - Starbucks 7.00 (remembered after I got home that I had a $30 gift card)
87.02 groceries (grocery total for the month = 381.35)

July 23 - monograming for DD school shirts 38.00 (the shirts weren't even that much!)
Walgreens - candy for movie and minutes for my Tracphone 23.00
movie - me and DD - admission (matinee) and one drink each - 23.00

July 24 -

 

[Virgderon]

Charming and QVCShopper- good job on making your goal early! Yay!

Another good flea market run, got $66 worth of books for DD for $11, and there is a grocery lady there who has awesome prices- tp for $1.00, hamburger helper for 75 cents, etc. I have $16 left over, but I am counting it for today because I have to pay for parking and a soda at the arena football game tonight.

Running Total: Spent $640
$1230 budget...$590 left
$0 Days: 10
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings $280 ( DH thinks I should count what I am saving on DD's books because I would buy them for full price, and I'm saving a lot.)

Groceries budget- $200-4-2-35-9-30-25-23-18-8-9.. 37 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
July 15 59 (19 eating out , 40 Target- 25 was groceries)
July 16 0
July 17-18 64 (Disney misc, 23 groceries)
July 19 0
July 20 49 (cleaning supplies, toiletries, 18 groceries)
July 21 0
July 22 43 (Walgreens, gifts)
July 23 16 (8 pop, misc.)
July 24 50 (flea market books, 9 groceries, misc)

 

[Cindy-rella]

Another no buy on Friday! I did shopping today and got the total groceries for the week $109.61. Not bad since 3 months ago it was around $140! Hopefully if I keep shopping sales and doing the coupon thing I'll get there!



No buys: 7/12
Groceries: $280.34/$440

 

[SunnieRN]

I spoke too soon. While I did pack treats and take the kids to the free movie in the park, the ice cream man was there. The good kind, with giant scoops of real ice cream. I said we were going to pass and the kids didn't whine or anything, but halfway though the movie I look around and see all these little tongues licking ice cream cones and I thought, you know, of all the times for the ice cream man, tonight is the night. So, I told them they could go get a cone. It was $6 and all I spent for the day, but it was worth it. No Buy Day or an extra shot of fun for my kids... the fun won! And I am glad it did. While I am enjoying doing this, I don't want it to be to the exclusion of living either, so they had their cones and watched a movie under the stars and it was a great night!

I say fantastic!!! Those will be memories your children will always appreciate!!

Congratulations Charming and QVCShopper!!! Fantastic that you met your goals!

Virgderon, I agree with your husband!! If you would have bought her the books any place else, you would have spent the entire sum! I do have a ??? though. How is she going to fit them all in her suitcase, and how much will it weigh?

Oh, I have a $0 today, but forgot to copy my post from before, so will do it with my update tomorrow!!

 

[Tiggerish]

Thank you all for the kind words and hugs. My Mom has been hospitalized since the final MRI show a non-displaced plevic fracture. They do not actually do anything for that but she will be discharged Monday to an in-patient rehab facility for short stay (2 weeks to a month). So my sister and I have been burning up the highway, touring facilities. I am amazed how much the vary, from so bad we immediately left to I want to live there! We settle on three possible and the social worker at the hospital is seeing who has an available bed. So all my spending has been for fast food and gas.

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

Auto $60 / $12
Eating Out/Entertainment $100 /$25
Giving $125 /$75
Groceries/Household Goods $300 / $148
Medical $265 / $56
Misc. $150 / $103

No spend days = 10 /10
Coupon savings = $22.50
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
7/15 $0
7/16 Medical (trip to Chicago to see neurologist) $198
7/17 Groceries $17; Misc $12
7/18 $0
7/19 Misc. $10 for cell phone data plan for niece; Eating out $27
7/20 Misc $4 (new cell phone cover); Groceries $34
7/21 $0
7/22 Eating out $11; Auto $10 (gas)
7/23 Eating out $6
7/24 Eating out $15; Auto $15 (gas)

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

MickeyMom, that sounds lovely. I miss my kids- they are all grown up now and don't live with me. I think you should get an honorary no spend day.

Thanks, I have been doing pretty wel even on the days that aren't $0 they are close, but after 7 months I know what is worth the splurge and what isn't. So now it is less about the number of days and mroe about making the non $0 days worth it.

Your evening sounds like it was wonderful! I'm glad that you found a balance between $0 Buy and enjoying life! Of course, because we do $0 Buy, we know we have the $6 to spend on ice cream in the park!

Exactly and you know I thought about it first so when I spent it I had no regrets. I also think because we have been cutting back it makes the times we do it all the more special. Plus, when was the last time you saw an ice cream man that had GOOD ice cream? Around here the ice cream man is a guy in a pick up truck with a cooler in the back. He rings a bell...if you are lucky! And he charges $4 for a lousy melted ice cream thing you can get a box of at the store for less. So this was a gooood ice cream man, worth the treat!

This is an awesome thread!!! I wish I found this at the begining of the month!!! My family is going to Disney in October and I wanted to save $1000 but I'm having a hard time! I have about $120.00 so far. A long way to go!! I hope this will continue in August b/c I would love to join in!!!

Great job to everyone on this thread!!! It is inspiring!!!

Welcome, it is so much fun and you will be stunned how much you can save. Sicne starting I have saved about $2000 in 7 months!

I say fantastic!!! Those will be memories your children will always appreciate!! That's what I was thinking, can't put a $ value on that!

Congratulations Charming and QVCShopper!!! Fantastic that you met your goals!

Virgderon, I agree with your husband!! If you would have bought her the books any place else, you would have spent the entire sum! I do have a ??? though. How is she going to fit them all in her suitcase, and how much will it weigh?

Oh, I have a $0 today, but forgot to copy my post from before, so will do it with my update tomorrow!!

Neeed to report for today but it is too early, don't want to jinx myself!

 

[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
15 - $9.45 lunch
16 - $0!
17 - $0!
18 - $0!
19 - $79.19 Winn-Dixie, Walgreens, gas, Subway (saved $25.74)
20 - $0!
21 - $0!
22 - $42.54 Winn-Dixie (saved $25.75...lol 1c more than the 19th)
23 - $17.20 Petsmart & snoball
24 - $0!

Totals:
$0 Buy: 13/15................87%
Spending: $469.48/$500...94%
Days in Month: 24/31.......77%

Averages:
$500/31 days= $16.13
$469.48/24 days= $19.56

MickeyMomofThree, $2000 in 7 months is great! I am sure I have saved at least that much, from things I would have bought without too much thought.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

MickeyMomofThree, $2000 in 7 months is great! I am sure I have saved at least that month, from things I would have bought without too much thought.

I wish I knew how much I spent in the smae months last year to really know what I have saved. $2000 is what I have scrolled away, like if I was given a GC and used it, I put that much away as if I paid cash. Or if I got a rebate or whatever, I put that away. I actually opened a seperate bank account for it and have added all extra money and in 6 months it has been $2000. Actually savings on things I haven't bought, I'd love to know. That would be cool but no way of knowing.

I have about $300 in checks here, rebates, my b-day and when I subbed at work to add but haven't made it to the bank yet!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I am back from being away and ready to rejoin! Realistically hoping for 5 this half of the month. I am not doing so well at the no buy days but what I am spening is very low.

July 13- Groceries $26
July 14-Groceries $121 Higher then usual but I just realized I didn't spend anything on groceries for over 2 weeks! DH and I shared an ice cream $3.50 TOTAL-$124.50
July 15- $0
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July 16- About $50 at Micheal's (gift), $3 Sam's lunch for DD who went out with me, about $70 on shamoo, girl stuff etc--a major bathroom closet restock, $10 pizza since I ws worn out! Gas about $35
July 17- movie with the family (Sorerer's Apprentice) about $30, eating out about $20, Michael's a few more supplies $20 but that is cause plan A was taking too long so plan A is going to be the baby's b-days gift (in 11 months) and I made plan b whcih actually is a better plan A then B anyway!
These 2 days are by memory. I hosted an Ice Cream for Breakfast event for Give Kids The World today with 40 or so people. It has been all I have thought about over the last couple days and everything is a bit blurry. On top of that we have a Baptism out of town tomorrow so I had to get the gift supplies and make the gift and we had promised the kids the movie today so it has been a busy weekend so far. Tomorrow is another busy day and not a $0 day since we will be gone all day, but what do you do? Have to go...People first, right?
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July 18- We spent about $15 on food on the road. We had to go away for a day trip for a freiend's baby's baptism. Also $2.50 for a card and gift bag for the gift and some hard candies for the kids to have during the service.

I am realizing how hard summer is going to be. I am not spending much but I am spending often. Tomorrow for example, I am taking the kids to see How To Train Your Dragon. It is only $.50 a person but there you go. Oh, and tonight before bed the kids asked for money for church tomorrow. They will be at VBS all week and have a collection all week. But if that is all we spend I may still consider it a $0 day, I mean, it's giving not spending. The we are into another weekend then my b-day is Monday and we will be pushing August already. Yeah, not doing so well in July but spending WAY less then usual so that is more important then no buy days I guess.

July 19-$0 I gave the kids money for offering at VBS but turns out they didn't do it today being the first day. My oldest told me they never do, but I didn't remember thatso I gave them money just in case. Never doubt her, she remembers EVERYTHING! Also, DD8 and DD15 were pooped after VBS so they came home and took a nap and DD11 had a friend over so we skipped the movie today, so turned out being a $0 day. I think we will go to the movies tomorrow though, it is supposed to be stormy and it's only $1 a person tomorrow. I like the free movies best but we can't do them this week cause of VBS.
July 20- Spent $1.60 at Staples for School Supplies that we gave at VBS today for Habitat for Humanity, and gave the kids money for giving that doesn't count! Took them to the $1 movies to see How to Train Your Dragon, $3. Took them to Toys R Us for a GREAT deal and found another deal, wound up spending $90 But I will explain. First deal, the Crayola B1G2 deal. I got the 50 count markers and 2 free ones. They were $9.97 each but 2 were free and I had a $6 off coupon from Crayola from when we got some dry markers a while back. So 150 markers for $3.97! Woo Hoo!!! While I was paying I saw a cool camera. We have been looking for a reasonable one for DD11 since her b-day in May. It was on clearance and it was the last one. I couldn't reach DH so I just bought it and fiured I could return it later. He read reviews tonight and seems it is a keeper, so it was a good find. Then we went to family night for dinner. I used coupons and the 3 of us (dh had plans as did DD15) had dinner and ice cream for a total of under $8. This also included face painting, balloon animals, games, prizes and the kids won a few silly bands so they were happy! A fun and reasonable day!
Also, I used to be the face painter but they had to cut back and I was let go. But I may be getting hired back since they are getting busy again and was asked to work tomorrow night, $40!!!
July 21-$0 After VBS I picked up the kids and we went to the park for a picnic, unfortunately a major storm hit so we had a picnic in the car and watched all the crazy people still playing in the park during the hail and lightening, then we came home and hung out here. I also got called into sub at my old job tonight and made $40 for 3 hours of painting faces.
July 22- Took the kids for doughnuts before VBS. I usually do it once a year as a treat. I used a GC I was given but put the $3.25 it would have cost me into our Disney Fund. $156.14 Wegman's, but it wasn't all groceries. I got almost $40 worth of facial cleansing products (there was a sale and I have a teenager and a tweenager so it was worth stocking up.) Plus they had free pull string backpacks with purchase so I bought enough to get each girl one free. They are going to decorate them for our Disney trip. I also needed paper goods and it was all on sale and I found a basketball for $4 (yes, at the grocery store) and DD11 my b-ball princess's ball was taken from our yard. $48.42 Walmart, school supplies and locker organizers for my new middle schooler. We also bought about $30 worth of stuff at Staples. $20 will come back to me in Rebates (which will also go to Disney) and the remainder of the $10 is some for my kids and most for the collection at VBS. I spent $16 at Target on a few more school things and colored duct tape so the kids can make duct tape wallets. Finall, DH and I went out on a date. He's stuck at work and needed a break and wanted to see me. Plus, I had a B1G1 dinner coupon! So for that, with tip, $20. Normally when we go out I cheat and get the kids dinner too. Tonight I cooked for them (kind of.) I made them the new Kraft Homestyle mac and cheese. They never had it but when we were at a festival they were giving it out for free. There were 5 of us and we went twice so we got 10 free packages so their dinner was free!
July 23-I just baked some brownies and popped some corn, we are headed to the free movies in the park tonight! I did sooo want Subway today, the kids had subs at VBS and they looked so good but I resisted and hasd a salad with lots of banana peppers (my favorite on a sub!) So I made another. ETA- Spent $6 on ice cream, so not a no buy after all.
July 24-$0 Took the kids to a free Kids SportsFest. Tonight DH wanted to go out to dinner since my b-day is Monday and he has to work 7am to 3 am and tomorrow we are going to the amusement park, but I wasn't feeling it after being in the sun all day, so I decided to cook. Dinner was great (so they say, I wasn't hungry.) I ws going to take the kids to CEC tonight for a bit to play (we have tokens so it would have been free) but when I was grilling it started pouring and I feel like a wet dog, and a tired one, so we skipped it and in exchange I let them make whatever flavor milkshakes they wanted. They went with chocolate strawberry. So, it was a good and FREE day!

No Buy Days-4/5 (half month, away for the first half of them month but spent very little)

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!

 

[figaromeetsmarie]

July Budget:

Grocery- $172.88/300
Household- $34.15/$50
Eating out/ Entertaiment- $0/50--over $. Had a big bday dinner out.
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
15th-$6.45 groceries $2.70 groceries
18th- household $15.85

24th- $23.03 household and groceries


Grocery Coupon Savings $322.83

 

[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!
7-15--No Buy!
7-16--$25 gas, $21.00 Walmart-b-day cards, drinks, popcorn,
7-17--No Buy! (We did eat out for lunch, but DH used his bday money, so this counts as a no buy!)
7-18--No Buy!
7-19--$35 Party City, $35 Dr. co-pay, $40.09 car tag renewal
7-20--$11 parking garage fee at lawyer office, $35 co-pay at dr.'s office, $22 diapers, and baby needs
7-21--$186 Walmart, groceries, ODD special surprise for doing good at the dr. and gas, $27 Walmart, wedding shower gift, $1.96, Coke at Sonic, $4, stamps to mail out postcards
7-22--$14.90, lunch, $26.81, $12.99 and $4.58 Gap
7-23--No Buy!
7-24--$40.00 Walgreens, prescription, $36 New Greek Restaurant on way home from out of town, no way I was cooking after throwing an out of town wedding shower today, 1.5 hours away from our house! LOL!


5/8 No Buy Days

 

[Virgderon]

"Virgderon, I agree with your husband!! If you would have bought her the books any place else, you would have spent the entire sum! I do have a ??? though. How is she going to fit them all in her suitcase, and how much will it weigh? "

She had 68 books on her wish list, and so far I have bought about 12. Most of them are paperbacks, so she can fit them in her suitcase, but I think any more that I buy will be for the Christmas box. I haven't shipped to Japan yet, but when she was in Scotland it was about $50 to ship a medium sized box. I need to save money on her Christmas gifts because it cost so much to ship them.

 

[lougoofy]

7/23/10: $6.75 laundry and about $15 hanging out

7/24/10: $1.00 soda (ruined a needed no spend day before work)

 

[lougoofy]

7/24/10: $1.00 soda (ruined a needed no spend day before work)

7/25/10: $1.05 soda (I generally don't keep them in the house, too tempting, I NEEDED one with B vit.s after mowing grass.) and $4.13 dgmarket and $4.77 chinese take-out and $7.00 for shirts

 

[SunnieRN]

Thank you all for the kind words and hugs. My Mom has been hospitalized since the final MRI show a non-displaced plevic fracture. They do not actually do anything for that but she will be discharged Monday to an in-patient rehab facility for short stay (2 weeks to a month). So my sister and I have been burning up the highway, touring facilities. I am amazed how much the vary, from so bad we immediately left to I want to live there! We settle on three possible and the social worker at the hospital is seeing who has an available bed. So all my spending has been for fast food and gas.

I am so sorry about the fracture, but so glad that you and your sister found a possibility of 3 good rehab centers! The shining light is they may be able to help your Mom figure out ways to do some of the things she used to do, but no longer has been able to!



July goals:
13 No buy days (after set bills)
Grocery: $400/-$401, it's up to my daughter/son in law for anything else
Entertainment/Eating out: $200/-155

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
July 10: $560, $97 groceries.
July 11: $0
July 12: $57.58 Groceries, $300, school supplies, medicine, some birthday and Christmas.
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!!!
July 15: $0 My daughter made me the most FANTASTIC birthday dinner!!
July 16: $38.00 Groc., $287 Christmas
July 17: $0 Phew!
July 18: $7 Potluck at work.
July 19: $68 Groceries and household necessities
July 20: $31.00, dinner out, $267.62 thanks to a WONDERFUL dis'er who was at DL's 55th birthday and picked me up Dooney's and Mickey ears!! MUCH cheaper than making a trip right now!
July 21: $0
July 22: $0
July 23: $0
July 24: $? I am striving for a $0 day. I have part of a pork loin in the crock for dinner, but we need some fresh vegies. My daughter should get them, but ??

15/13 No Buy Days!
Added to Savings: $115/$400
Christmas 75% complete, one birthday completely DONE

 

[Ginamarie]

Thank you all for the kind words and hugs. My Mom has been hospitalized since the final MRI show a non-displaced plevic fracture. They do not actually do anything for that but she will be discharged Monday to an in-patient rehab facility for short stay (2 weeks to a month). So my sister and I have been burning up the highway, touring facilities. I am amazed how much the vary, from so bad we immediately left to I want to live there! We settle on three possible and the social worker at the hospital is seeing who has an available bed. So all my spending has been for fast food and gas.

I'm sorry to hear about your mom, but hopefully you've found her a nice rehab facility so she'll recover comfortably!





I did a ton of grocery shopping today, so I should be able to rack up a couple of no spend days this week without any trouble.

7-1 - $10 parking fee
7-2 $0 (my first no spend day in July!)
7-3 - $77.32 groceries, $32.35 baby shower gift
7-4 - $12.50 groceries
7-5- $0
7-6 $0
7-7 $0
7-8 $30- kid/baby stuff, $91 BJs
7-9 $0
7-10 $0
7-11 $0
7-12 $0
7-13 $13 dinner after job interview
7-14 $19 lunch with hubby, $50 gymbuck redemption, $13 Kmart (sold remaining gymbucks for $28)
7-15 $30 groceries at BJs
7-16 $0
7-17 $15 dinner at 5 Guys (we were SO close to a no spend day until we got cravings at 8 pm!)
7-18 $99 Target toy sale (Christmas/birthday gifts), $65 BJs (groceries)
7-19 $0
7-20 $0
7-21 $0
7-22 $0
7-23 $30 co-pay for ultrasound, $11 Subway, $21 BJs (groceries and cake to bring to MIL tomorrow)
7-24 $0
7-25 $45 BJs (groceries and dress shoes for DH), $42 Waldbaums (groceries-I saved $53!)


No spend days 14/12

 

[charming23]

Ran to the grocery this morning to get a few ingredients for a new dish I am trying out (zucchini ricotta tart).

July Budget:

Grocery- $200/ $13.40 left
Household/Beauty- $50/ $25.54 Left
Car/Gas- $50/ $.63 left
Eating out/ Entertaiment- $50/-$8.06left
Misc- $50/$38.24

Total- $400/$84.75 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
7/15- $0
7/16- $48.44 at Giant Eagle
7/17- $10 at GFS
7/18- $0
7/19- $18.92 at Panera for lunch
7/20- $0
7/21- $44.74 Marc's, $19.14 The Original Pancake House, and $24.99 Gas
7/22- $6.99 target
7/23- $0
7/24- $0
7/25- $13.75 at Giant Eagle

11/10 No Buy days

 

[SnowWhite607]

July 1 - $16 (ice cream and lunch)

July 2 - 98.45 at Walmart - that includes groceries for the week, cat stuff, paper products and toiletries. If I can keep this under $500 total for the month, that would be great!

17.68 (eating out)

July 3 - groceries 20.38 (meat and stuff)

July 4 - 3.03 (eating out)

July 5 - 19.93 (eating out)

July 6 - ZERO!!

July 7 - 11.72 (eating out)

July 8 - 10 - out of town

July 11 - Walmart (groceries and paper goods) 88.65
School supplies - 9.00

July 12 - school uniforms 111.90 (but I have to return one more that she changed her mind on. Plus when I got home there was a $10 off $50 coupon in the mail from Academy Sports - where I just bought all my stuff. I called and they said I could bring in my receipt and the coupon and get my ten bucks! So the total will be around 95-ish)
school supplies 53.67
birthday gift 9.00

July 13 - 0

July 14 - summer kids movie for me and DD 6.00
Lunch 13.09 (had a $2 coupon)
Bookbag, lunchbox, hair stuff 60.42
Ice cream 3.00

July 15 - took my old uniforms to the mall and got a $40 gift card for it. Also got my $10 credit back for my Academy coupon from the other day.
Sears - shirts for me 15.63
capris for DD - 10.86
CVS - stamps, etc - 10.95
Gas - 26.00

July 16 - groceries 86.85
DD sunglasses 5.00
movie rental 5.00

July 17 - 27.00 birthday gifts

July 18 - birthday dinner out 63.89

July 19 - 0

July 20 - lunch 18.45
1.50 to vaccuum the car

July 21 - 10.00 bowling and snacks
6.00 ice cream for me and DD

July 22 - Starbucks 7.00 (remembered after I got home that I had a $30 gift card)
87.02 groceries (grocery total for the month = 381.35)

July 23 - monograming for DD school shirts 38.00 (the shirts weren't even that much!)
Walgreens - candy for movie and minutes for my Tracphone 23.00
movie - me and DD - admission (matinee) and one drink each - 23.00

July 24 - 5.53 groceries

July 25 - lunch 17.81
CVS - 14.93 (but I got over $30 worth of stuff and also got $7 ECB back.)

 

[Virgderon]

Running Total: Spent $717
$1230 budget...$513 left
$0 Days: 10
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon/sale savings $280 ( DH thinks I should count what I am saving on DD's books because I would buy them for full price, and I'm saving a lot.)

Groceries budget- $200-4-2-35-9-30-25-23-18-8-9-55.. 18 in the red

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
July 15 59 (19 eating out , 40 Target- 25 was groceries)
July 16 0
July 17-18 64 (Disney misc, 23 groceries)
July 19 0
July 20 49 (cleaning supplies, toiletries, 18 groceries)
July 21 0
July 22 43 (Walgreens, gifts)
July 23 16 (8 pop, misc.)
July 24 50 (flea market books, 9 groceries, misc)
July 25 77 ( chipotle, 8 at Old Navy, groceries)

 

[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
7/14 $60 Children's Place, $6 Walmart, $20 JoAnn
7/15 $0
7/16 $73 Target, -$12 Children's Place price adjust
7/17 $16 Sunflower Market
7/18 $6 Dollar Tree, $7 Sunflower Market, -$13 Target return
7/19 $0
7/20 $6 groceries
7/21 $0
7/22 $0
7/23 $5 Amazon.com, $35 Fabric.com
7/24 $0
7/25 $68 Safeway, $24 Sewzanne's

13/12 no-buy days