~ February No-Spend Challenge ~ We're tracking our spending and trying to only buy the... - Page 9

[annethcz]

I resisted the urge to go out to lunch with DH today. Yay me!

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No spend: 3/20 days
: No drive: 1/4 days
Stay within 15 mile radius of home: 4/23 days

[BabyFinch]

Goals for the month:

No-spend days: 0/15 :
Necessary spending:
Unnecessary spending: :
Groceries spent so far: 211/550, including cat food/litter and all household items
Eating out spent so far: 0/80
Gas: 26/125

2/1 - $15 groceries for meetup group breakfast, $26 gas
2/2 - $21 groceries, $134.56 payoff MC, $27 payoff AMEX #2, $100 back into DD's savings acct.
2/3 - $175 groceries, $40 Discover card payment
2/4 - : so far...

We should be good for groceries for the rest of the month, with the exception of milk and maybe some produce. Let's see if I can keep out of the stores!!

[Hollysmom]

Spent some unbudgeted money on a toy co-op today, but it will provide gifts for both birthdays and Christmas this year.

February 1: No Spend
February 2: $9.49 Groceries
February 3: $3.99 Groceries, $4 parking
February 4: $4 parking, $1.97 bagel, $39.82 toys for future gifts, $54.06 Gas


Spending:

$13.48 Groceries
$54.06 Gas
$8.00 Budgeted Spending
$41.79 Unbudgeted Spending

[kreyno4]

2/1 - $1 drink for dd
2/2 -
2/3 - $4.50 b-day gift (will take out of my fun money), $1.77 drink for dd, $4 milk
2/4 -

no spend 2/21
: no drive 0/12
fun money spent $4.50/$50
all food and household $6.77/$400

[Pumpkin_Pie]

My key:
: True no spend day
Planned spending (bills, groceries, etc)
Frivolous spending above my $5 a day allowance

Here goes nothing!!!

1. $58.64 on groceries , $10.34 baby wipes , $4.98 frivolous spending
2. :
3. Horrible day... $24 on pizza delivery and $3 at Starbucks.
4. $82.40 on groceries , $19.95 on paper goods and toiletries
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1/10 True no spend days
2/10 Planned spending days
$141.04/$327.68 groceries
$30.29 planned spending
$27/$140 totally frivolous spending...

[scrapadoozer]

02/01:
02/02:
02/03:
02/04:

Goals:
4/20 No spend days.
0/$100 Unnecessarily spent.
$100/$300 Saved for the midwife.
8/6 Receiving blankets made for babe.
2/2 Cotton caps made for babe.

[MomtoRyan]

1. :
2. Just gas $28.00 which was budgeted (we borrowed new shoes from a friend so no$ on new one's for DS)
3. $33/vet bill for prescirption cat food and a test (was budgeted) AND $22 at the grocery store
4. :




=No Spend
:=No Drive
:= Unexpected Spend Day
=Spent but only on budget items

Goals
2/15 no spend days
2/15 no drive days
2/20 organize a part of the house for 30min
0/4 1hour for mommy time (I am really bad at this one)

[nadia105]

Came really, really close to grabbing some great Land's End clearance deals, but I found out my free shipping code was only for full price stuff, so I'm back to waiting.

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3: $29 pizza delivery: $10 of a Target trip was :
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10/100 unnecessary spending
3/22 necessary or no spending

[nina_yyc]

1/1 - $125 staple foods and large-quantity detergents from health food store (eeek!), $7.25 admission at pool, $64 for 10x pool passes for me and DD.
1/2 - $36.20 gas
1/3 - $128 groceries
1/4 - $23.25 taking a friend out for lunch at work

$248/$500 groceries
$36.20/$100 gas
$64/100 unplanned household
$23.25 unnecessary spending

[liangel]

My key:

:=groceries
necessary spending (gas, health and beauty products, household products)
-unnecessary spending
-no spending

2/1-
2/2- $11 lunch out $40 Nails done
2/3-
2/4- $47 Kmart for Maternity Clothes which were VERY necessary

[AngelBee]

Feb 1:
Feb 2: 3.00 in a vending machine
Feb 3: 10.00 at a concession stand
Feb 4:

[newbymom05]

1. No spend, ate at home
2. No spend, ate at home
3. No spend, ate at home
4. on no spend and eating at home, but grocery shopped and kind of blew it on $7 worth of chocolates. Drat those bins!!! But otherwise stuck to list/budget.

Goals: Stick to budget 28/28 (still have to finalize budget )
No spend days: 4/14
Eat at home 4/20

I'm on a roll! But tomorrow is playgroup at a coffee house--that'll cost me something. Ugh!!

[SugarAndSun]

1st: No spend!
2nd: $44 food; $24 gas
3rd: No spend!
4th: No spend!

Online: $44 diapers; $16 book for Valentine's Day
Misc.: Swim

Food: $44/$800
Gas: $24/$????

[papermoon]

1/2 - £18 (pocket money. bday gift and car oil)
2/2 - no spend, no drive
3/2 - no spend, no drive - (snow day)
4/2 - £10 budgeted groceries


I like the idea of having a symbol key! So....

- budgeted spend
- impulse/frivolous spend
- no spend
: - no drive

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

More money spent on diapers. I can't talk about it right now. Maybe I'll be able to in a few days.

It is February 5th and I still have yet to have ONE day where I didn't visit the website that is my nemesis.

I don't know what is going on.

We did sign the paperwork yesterday refinancing our house. 4.25 % !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is going to save us so much money (we were at 8% before).

But still...is that a reason to go out buying diapers????

Ridiculous.

Our house is overrun with cute pink diapers with things embroidered on the butt.

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02.. $10 car wash
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04.. $42 diapers
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My goals:

2/20 No Spend Days
0/5 Let the Car Rest Days :
0/28 No Diaperswappers :

[PassionateWriter]

01-: $25 for the toybox for ds4. committed to in January so no choice.,
02- :$2.09 coffee.
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$54 on milk (we get raw milk and i decided to pay for 3 weeks at a time yesterday so i could possibly get more "no spend" days this month). yes, im manipulating my competition i guess.
$52 on gas (but had a $6 coupon..not sure it was worth it though..i was at the slowest gas pump in the ENTIRE WORLD!!!).
did not get my car wash b/c it was 20 cars long BUT DP informed me that they are picking up my car tomorrow and so they will wash it before bringing it back! yeh!!!
$27.50 - paid for some credits i purchased through paperbackswap.com (R, ask me about those..you can purchase credits without having to pay pbs fees). mailed some books but that $$ was taken from the pbs account so in my world it doesnt count. ill add it here if i deposit more money there.
$2.36 coffee. (thats 2 this week)
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=No Spend
:=No Drive
:= Unexpected Spend Day
=Spent but only on budget items

Goals
1/20 No Spend Days
0/14 No Drive Days
1/20 Decluttering/Organizing Days/30 minutes
2/8 Library Days
0/4 books
0/10 knit at least 30 minutes
4/25 eat at home

[turalis]

c. How you plan to get there

1) Budget all spending on food - goal is $40 a week (my half of the weekly bill)
2) Stick to the library
3) Stay in the neighborhood as to avoid paying for public transit (we don't have a car)
4) No new clothes or other unnecessary items
5) Leave debit & credit card at home and only use cash
6) record spending here and in my personal diary

So here goes:

no spend =
groceries = :
unnecessary =
saved or used to pay for bills, trip, extra loan payment =


Groceries 39.99/120
Trip Savings 0/200
Money saved for March bills 0/1000 (includes rent, utilities, and loan payments)
Extra loan payment 0/100
Cat stuff 19.00


2/1- $35 shopping for the week :
2/2-
2/3- $19.00 on cat food - forgot to put this in the budget, will remember next month. Although most of the bill was for a big bag of dry food that will last two months.[/QUOTE]
2/4- $4.99 :

[Ruthiegirl]

Originally Posted by Crunchy*VT*Mom

More money spent on diapers. I can't talk about it right now. Maybe I'll be able to in a few days.

I am so sorry. I know those are your weakness. Sending you strength and well wishes.

[Ruthiegirl]

I love doing the preemptive . Easy day planned -- a bit of school this morning, basketball this afternoon and dinner is ready to go. Pre-planning the day has been key in my success. It makes it so much easier to have food and activities in place so I don't fall prey to my weakness for an easy night of pizza and movies.


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3 -- copay, piano and dance lessons
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6 -- pay day, bills and groceries
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My goals:

No new debt!
0/1000 cc debt
0/500 groceries
0/200 food co-op (bulk goods)
0/50 gas

[OkiMom]

I didn't do anything today but sit around the house and read books to my daughter. I have to go to the library tomorrow (I have a movie due there), check the mail, mail off a package, run to the PX (DD2 can't sleep if there is any light in the room so Im getting some aluminum foil and duck tape to put over the sliding glass doors to hopefully block some sun out), run to the home improvement store (free though- I was going to do it Saturday but Ill do it tomorrow and maybe stay home or close to home saturday), and pick up zoo passes (suppose to be going with a friend but its 15.00 for the whole year for up to 5 adults, children under 5 are free).

Jan 31- 28.50 Amazon, 105 Food shopping (other than odds and ends this is all until the beginning of March), 16 gas, 2.00 toy car mat for DD to drive her cars on, 4.00 snake food until the middle of the month
Feb 1:
Feb 2- :
Feb 3- 20.12 on groceries, 5.00 on DD's Valentines gift.
Feb 4- 69.50 Bras
Feb 5- :
No Spend 2/20
: No drive 1/10
Grocery budget: 125/500
Gas: 16/100
Amazon: 28.50/30
Town: 0/5000 Y
Shipping- 0/15
Snake food: 4/20.00
Exercise days 0/20
Misc- 5/40.00