~~September No-Spend Thread~~ We're in the HOME STRETCH....you can do it Mamas! - Page 6

[Turquesa]

KEY:

= No spend
= Necessary/budgeted spending
= Unnecessary/-non-budgeted spending

1: Paid phone bill
2: $82.00 in groceries!!!!! (I didn't think I was capable! ) and $8.58 for budgeted lunch out with family. $20.00 used jammies for DD, shoes for kids.
3: $15.00 on a rocking horse. Trouble with garage sales is that you can still do unnecessary spending and justify it because it's cheap. .

Took out $200.00 cash for an upcoming road trip. I'll try to track stuff while I'm gone!
4: $25.00 gas, $3.00 "obligatory" purchases to justify using gas station bathrooms.
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[nadia105]

1: $94 diapers
2: $38 eating out
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Today was a good no spend day, mostly b/c I feel absolutely awful.

Yesterday I got takeout b/c the only thing that sounded good was Olive Garden Minestrone soup. So little sounds good lately, and the nausea this time is kicking my butt!

[Crunchy*VT*Mom]

Spent all day with the kids at the pool (part of our gym membership so already paid for) and now we are home for the night -- my first no-spend of the month.

01.. $4.99 Danish for party, SOS
02.. $45 fair food
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My goals:

1/20 No Spend Days
0/10 Let the Car Rest Days
2/20 Stay Out of the Stores SOS (this includes on-line shopping)

[nadia105]

Originally Posted by nina_yyc

1: $280 Costco
2: $65 Groceries, $30 raincoat for DD

$375/500

I suck at this.

You do not suck at this! Unless Costco was a lot of totally unneeded things, your month looks really good so far! I bet the things you bought are going to last for a while.

[Canadianne]

1. Spent the day with my sisters and only spent money that I had set aside in August for the day ($20.00). I also had enough left over from the $20.00 to cover supper with DH.
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Key:
Complete No Spend Day:
No Unplanned Debit Card Use:
Budgeted Spending:

Tracking:
Complete No Spend Days: 1/10
No Unplanned Debit Card Use Days: 3/15
Dining Out: 1/10
Groceries: $134.87/$290.00

[VisionaryMom]

1: $27 - I bombed on the first day out. We ended up out longer than we though and ate out. Still, $27 isn't an awful price for dinner for all of us. We ate at a local place.

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3: We spent lots today, but it all was planned. Totals: $260 groceries; $50 oil for car; $36 fundraising lunch; $500 bills; $10 kids' allowances, $27 household supplies.

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- Worked on a Goal

1/10 No Spend Days

So we spent the money for the fundraising lunch. It's one of those "eat here and we donate a percentage to this charity" deals, and several friends are in the group. Afterward, though, even though it was planned, I kind of felt blah about it. I mean, they only get 10%, and then later DH said, "we should have just given them $30. It would have been tax deductible then," and so I think that's what we'll do in the future.

[Pumpkin_Pie]

I have a job! It starts on Tuesday, but I also am so dirt poor right now and just found out I may be moving in a couple of months. I have no idea how I am going to afford to hire movers, or rent a truck. Sooooooo beyond stressed. I also need to do an insane major purge. I was sort of planning to do it slowly over the course of this coming winter, and now I need to do it ASAP. There is no way I can move all of the stuff that is here, and I need to save in order to be able to afford to move at all. Time to really tighten up the belts!


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2. $1.07 Redbox DVD (hung laundry out today!)
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1/20 no spend days
0/10 stay home days
5/30 Cans of stockpile food eaten
create and start using an envelope system
3/30 not use the dryer (actually haven't used it at all in over a month already
0/25 not use the a/c (my apartment is obscenely hot upstairs)

[SuzyLee]

1. 8.87 for ice cream. Spent 40$ on tubs and such for the house (40/50). Still within budget but I will have to be careful the rest of the month.

2. 60$ for new car mirror. My friend did it so I saved about 100$ over what the dealer would have charged. 50$ for groceries. (50/400). I was feeling tempted to go out for dinner then our neighbor invited us over, woohoo!

3. 12$ on a sleeping bad for DS. (12/100 for kids). I almost skipped Target and went to REI bc I thought Target would have clearanced there out already. So I am glad I spent 5 min on the phone with Target and saved 60 bucks! I was very tempted to go out to eat for dinner (do you notice a theme LOL) but we ate out of the fridge instead.


Treat-free grocery shopping: 1/2
Within budget for groceries, kids, and household.

[ltlmrs]

31. $86.47 groceries, $27.48 gas
1. $19.80 groceries, 29.53 gas
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3. $47 groceries and rent

We're heading out of town for the weekend, the goal is to not spend any money but gas, I hope that's how it works out... Oh, and I found source for non-organic, non-homogenized, non-rbst and relatively local milk. This will definitely help us stay within the budget since I'll replace 1 gal of raw milk with that for making yogurt and for DH's coffee.

September Budget & Goals:
$153.27/$300 food (food budget dropped from $350 upon a revision of the food budget)
0 eating out days!
$0/$60 miscellaneous expenses ($30 haircuts; Ladybug needs onesies and pajama sleepers for winter, I need fall shoes; DH's dry cleaning - need to keep reminding myself so that I don't think of the $60 as fun money...)
$57.01/$300 gas

[trumpcard]

Stayed home today and achieved my first no-spend day of the month! Put my time at home to good use by roasting a chicken I bought on sale yesterday, making chicken stock with the remains, and making a batch of tomato sauce with tomatoes from my neighbor's garden!
I was tempted to order a dozen pre-fold diapers online but I managed to talk myself down. They are a want not a need--I have plenty of diapers but DD is in an awkward "between sizes" stage right now and it is driving me crazy!! If I can hold myself off for a month or so we will be fine for diapers . . .

Meals Out: 0/2
Ice Cream 0/1
Car Days 2/8
No-Spend 1/15
Budget $66.42/$400
Exercise 2/30

[SoulCakes]

Ok...

September

1: £2.50 for the bus
2: £82/400 for groceries
3: £3.60 for the bus
£3.95 uniform exchange
£102.50/400 groceries

Haven't had a no-spend day yet... :-/

[Jenn_M]

WooHoo! A new month!

1) (rent $450)
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Goals:
= no spend day
= budgeted spending
= not budgeted/unnecessary spending

$0/ $560 groceries and household
$0/ $120 unnecessary spending

0 / 20 meals cooked at home

[SaraCate]

1. No spend
2. $15.63 for groceries
3. DH out for lunch...hopefully under $10. Today or tomorrow will def. be a produce day here...we're down to one apple by way of fresh fruit! DH's lunch companion insisted on paying for lunch, no spend there! However, DH decided to spend about $14.00 on pre-viewed, on-sale DVDs.
4. App. $60.00 on groceries and $7.50 misc (storage bags, cleaning, etc.)

1/8 no spend
~75.63/260 groceries

[melissel]

Key:
No-spend day:
Only planned/necessary spending:
Unnecessary spending:

Grocery spending goal: $0/$200

9/1: ($100 on housewarming gift--yes, they're VERY good friends; $46 on a new power cord for my laptop, because my old one is nearly kaput)
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9/3: Spent $45 on gas for the car, $10 on a b-day gift, and $10 on wrapping supplies for b-day and housewarming gifts--all planned spending. I successfully managed to avoid buying drinks for the kids/Starbucks for me after a long park visit, so I'm proud of that!
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[Turquesa]

Originally Posted by Jenn_M

WooHoo! A new month!

1) (rent $450)

That does it. I'm moving to Iowa!

In my town, $450/mo might let you stay in somebody's wood shed.

[Jenn_M]

Originally Posted by Turquesa

That does it. I'm moving to Iowa!

In my town, $450/mo might let you stay in somebody's wood shed.

We rent a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house on a double lot for that! However, you have to like small town living.. lol. There are 225 people in our town.

[VisionaryMom]

1: $27 - I bombed on the first day out. We ended up out longer than we though and ate out. Still, $27 isn't an awful price for dinner for all of us. We ate at a local place.

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2/10 No Spend Days

[Hollysmom]

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My Goals:

4/20 No Spend Days
Track Unnecessary spending $0

[MrsMike]

= No spend day.
= budgeted spend
= made my own dang coffee and didn't buy it at Dunkin
= unbudgeted spend
= all meals homecooked

September:
1.) Didn't spend a dime of my own today! Got a tattoo, but it was a present from my mom. And, and, And I got $9.00 back on bras that I returned.
2.) Gas, rent. And my a/c blew so, even though it was 96 degrees, I saved money. S.O.S
3.) Got garlic bread ($1.50) from the take-out place when everyone ordered lunch at work yesterday. But, most of my lunch was from home. for a Phillies game. We knew we were gonna to blow some bucks on parking and grub.
4.) $5.54 on groceries.


Goals:
$5.54/$200 grocery
2/25 meals cooked at home/bagged lunches
1/5 dine-out days
1/15 S.O.S - stay out of store.[/

[Pumpkin_Pie]

Not technically a no-spend day, but I only bought a box of garbage bags so I can start my PURGE! I got rid of six bags of cloth diapers/baby clothes today and my trash can is full to the top and my recycle bin is overflowing and the trash/recycle trucks don't come until next Friday! I also have a HUGE pile in the kitchen that is going to go next Friday. My goal is to have my kitchen pretty much stuffed to bring it all out on Friday morning. Also used the dryer, but it was for a bag of linens that a friend was storing at my house for the past three years. I found them and washed them and dried them so I can get them OUT of my house! At least we didn't use the car today! I biked into town with DS pulling an absolutely STUFFED bike trailer with dipes/clothes for a friend.


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3. $.75 on a bottle of water. I forgot my EBT card at home and had to pay cash.
4. $3.19 on garbage bags, used dryer and didn't use up any canned goods. *sigh*
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1/20 no spend days
1/10 stay home days
5/30 Cans of stockpile food eaten
create and start using an envelope system
3/30 not use the dryer (actually haven't used it at all in over a month already
0/25 not use the a/c (my apartment is obscenely hot upstairs)