The big "no buy in July" thread!

[3girlsfun]

Goal: 8 days of no spending in July!

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

 

[FQ fan]

Two more no buy days! Woo Hoo!


7/1 - $0
7/2 - $20(bag for Disney)
7/3 - $0
7/4 - $65(dinner w/ visiting family)
7/5 - $0
7/6 - $0
7/7 - $0
7/8 - $84(ice cream, farmer's market, Target)
7/9 - $0
7/10 - $0

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no buy - 7/20
unneccessary - $169/$100

 

[Ginamarie]

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

No spend days 6/12!

 

[lougoofy]

7/09/10: $$ night out
7/10/10: $3.75 drinks, $3.71 dgmarket, $2.52 Rally's and $4.85 drinks for at home

7/11/10: $4.23 Rally's

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 0/10
Gas :
Car repairs :
Groceries : 104$
Eating out (and snacks) : 140$
Non-necessities : 192$

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)

 

[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!

No $pend days: 5 / 12[/QUOTE]

 

[SnowWhite607]

July 1 - $6 for ice cream for me and DD, $10 lunch Chick Fil A

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 Sonic for lunch

July 3 - groceries 20.38 (meat and stuff)

July 4 - 3.03 McDonalds

July 5 - 16.93 lunch, $3 snacks at the pool

July 6 - ZERO!!

July 7 - 11.72 lunch

July 8 - 10 - out of town

I will be going out of town Thursday thru Saturday this week. All things will be paid for thru savings set aside for this so I am not going to count it here

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

 

[SunnieRN]

Sunnie, I will be thinking about you. Hope your health issues will be easily taken care of.

Here is a picture of the bracelets I got. They help out a good cause, and they're cute!



I am sorry to hear this. I hope everything turns out to be okay!

I can totally relate on the financial part of it; I did not include the health category in this month's no buy spending for myself because of all the appointments and things we have going on. We have spent over $425 this month so far (it's only the 10th...there's more coming!) on medical and that is WITH insurance!

Thank you so much, you both made my day brighter and I appreciate it SO much! LOVE the bracelets!

I work for a hospital and can not go to our hospitals specialists as they do not accept our hospitals insurance plan! If that isn't totally crazy, I'm not sure what is?!

July goals:
13 No buy days (after set bills)
Grocery: $400/-$153 (My daughter/son in law will put in the same amount!
Entertainment/Eating out: $200/-$31.68

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(Technically I spent $$$ today, but it was my leftover vacation $$$ from WDW last month! Thinking of this thread helped keep me on track and I brought a few hundred $$$ back for...... CHRISTMAS shopping! So since it was $0 from savings and $0 on credit, I feel it is a $0 day!!

8/13 No Buy Days!
Added to Savings: $115/$400
Christmas 65% complete, one birthday completely DONE!

 

[charming23]

Charming,
Sorry I won't see you at Bon Jovi, but glad you had a great time at your concert. I'm getting a shirt too! I have waited 20+ years, so I am going for it.
Can't wait to get back on here on Tuesday, though it won't be to record a $0 day cause we will need groceries after being gone, but I look forward to catching up again!

Have fun at Bon Jovi and t-shirts do not count towards your budget especially if you have waited 20+ years


Heading down to my Grandma's for dinner tonight so today is a no buy.

July Budget:

Grocery- $200/ $138.84 left
Household/Beauty- $50/ 40.38 Left
Car/Gas- $50/ $25.62 left
Eating out/ Entertaiment- $50
Misc- $50/$38.24

Total- $400/$293.08 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

5/10 No Buy days

 

[figaromeetsmarie]

July Budget:

Grocery- $232.18/300
Household- $50
Eating out/ Entertaiment- $30/50
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


Grocery Coupon Savings $149.22

 

[ronnmel]

No Buy Days : 0/10
Gas :
Car repairs :
Groceries : 104$
Eating out (and snacks) : 140$
Non-necessities : 238$

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)

 

[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!

Totals:
$0 Buy: 6/15..................40%
Spending: $187.90/$500...38%
Days in Month: 11/31.......35%

Averages:
$500/31 days= $16.13
$187.90/11 days= $17.08

 

[Virgderon]

Another 0 spend day. Yay for me!

Running Total: Spent $340
$1150 budget...$810 left
$0 Days: 5
Goal is 8 or more!
coupon savings $73

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

 

[Tiggerish]

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

Auto $60
Eating Out/Entertainment $100 /$83
Giving $125 /$75
Groceries/Household Goods $300 / $199
Medical $265 / $255
Misc. $150 / $140

No spend days = 5 /10
Coupon savings = $19.35
Christmas 2010 running total of spending = $12

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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 $17 (ice cream treats); Groceries $29
7/11 Giving $25 (church)

 

[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

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- 3/10

 

[Cindy-rella]

Another no buy on 7/11. We are out of town with family. It is hard not to spend money on trips! However, I should be saving quite a bit on groceries!

Budget
Groceries $440, Spent $74.34
4 no buys out of 12

 

[thebeesknees]

7/1 $22.95 LL Bean
7/2 $50 groceries
7/3 $0 Finally!!
7/4 $0
7/5 $0
7/6 $0
7/7 $0
7/8 $0
7/9 $56 Walmart school supplies, $120 Sam's club montly stock-up and printer ink.
7/10 $.81 Post Office, $10 Dollar Tree frozen veggies, stuff for church picnic tomorrow.
7/11 $0
7/12 $0

8/12 no-buy days

 

[loritemp]

Hey folks!

First and most importantly, Sunnie thinking good thoughts for you!!

So went to NYC for a girls day on Sat. I feel like I just opened up my wallet on a highway going 80 and let money blow on out!!! Oh well. I enjoyed myself. Then yesterday was grocery day. BUT I looked circulars before I went and managed to spend only $60 for the week by planning meals around what was on sale. I was thrilled!!

Luckily today should be a no spend day.

So...5/12 no spend days
$463/$900 for total monthly budget

 

[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




7/15

 

[Ginamarie]

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

DSis is picking up some milk for me today, so it won't be a no spend day, but I'm still doing well. Plus, I have a job interview tomorrow (fingers and toes crossed!) I was able to make a ton of food yesterday all from things we had in the house and freezer. So it's a low grocery week

No spend days 7/12