DD5 is begging to go now too. It will be a special treat that Daddy will do with her when DD8 and I go to see the Nutcracker. But whew! I made sure both girls know that this is a ONE-TIME THING!!!! I did take us back home for lunch instead of caving under the Starbucks/Chipotle/Jamba Juice triple whammy in the same "shoppes."
(ate at home all day, completed a survey for $2) (soccer sign-up fees, some stock-up grocery shopping with coupons--hooray for free toothbrushes!) (expensive clothes and food out) (birthday gift and card for young cousin's party)[/QUOTE] (insanely priced girly hair/makeup experience-$33, the balance on DD's glasses-$35)
No Spend Budgeted, planned spending Impulse, Unnecessary Spending
Groceries (0/200 budgeted)
Coffeeshop, bar or restaurant (0/50 budgeted)
Lucky secondhand find
Babysitter (0/60 budgeted)
Sold something online
Finally got the winter boots I've been dreaming of! ($2.50/$50 budgeted) Spent $89 doing a stock-up grocery shopping. But I had a $75 gift card. ($89/$200 budgeted) I've had a stainless steel travel coffee mug on my wish list for two months, but they cost $15. Found a really nice one at a garage sale for 50 cents. On campus all day, remembered to pack a lunch. Paid bills, bought a wedding present for my big sister ($80) and a birthday present for my nephew ($13) lovely glass of wine with my research group after class $8 ($10.50/50 budgeted) (mental health boost -- priceless 
) $4.50 work lunch ($15/50 budgeted) $12 halloween pumpkins -- we'll call that ($102/200 grocery budget) $8.07 breakfast for me and DS with friends before a big hike ($23/50 budgeted) Date night planned! ($25/60 budgeted) Date night stuff - $23. Awesome time had on date night -- priceless. $59 on groceries ($163/200 budgeted) Also spent about $23 on a printer cartridge that I needed for school stuff, $16 on a big box of diapers, $7 on winter pants for DS, and about $40 at the outlet mall on me.
| You know those frilly, fancy salon places for little girls? Whoever invented those is PURE EVIL. We happened upon a new one in our local "shoppes" last week, and since then DD8 has been begging to go. |
| I was powerless to resist the email I got from Gap with 45% off EVERYTHING in the store. |
Budgeted, planned spending (includes groceries, gas, other necessary or well planned items- NOT impulse items) No Spend
No Drive Impulse, Unnecessary Spending Eat Out Groceries, consumables, and gas rest of grocery shopping DH and I had a date night, I think dinner was overpriced, but it was good. And DH got steak, which I never make.- Gymnastics and Art classes for the month for dd haircut for dd but it was a missions dinner at church so I am giving it a Went to a local library book sale, spent waay more than I wanted, but we homeschool and will use everything and it was a good deal so I need to give myself a break! Picked up Chinese for me, DH and the girls are out for the evening so I splurged. did spend $221 on car repairs, but I am calling it a no spend day because I didn't go into one store, shop online, etc.
Groceries, gas, and $200 
at the gardening centre on supplies. and one more bag of clutter out the door! Vaccinations for the dogs $200. garden supplies (and that should be it!) 
didn't pass up a sale on cloth diapers for the new LO. Granted, I needed some new cloth wipes, and they were on sale. But I did not need the on sale AIOs . groceries & gas almost $20 on craft supplies for DD. No spend Only planned/budgeted spending Unnecessary / unplanned spending
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Originally Posted by Crunchy*VT*Mom
 Your post made me laugh out loud for two reasons, Melissa... 1. How you spelled shoppes and put it in quotes...that is funny stuff 2. The "shoppe" being in New Jersey...I can SO see a place like that thriving in my old neighborhood (we moved to Vermont from New Brunswick, NJ) What is it with New Jersey and hair? I've never seen so many salons anywhere else in the country. I'm glad your DD had a good time -- you would have spent that taking her to ChuckECheese or some other child-entertaining type place as well. At least you got a haircut out of it, right? |
We live in North Brunswick!!! = No spend or budgeted spending = Unnecessary/unbudgeted spending = No-drive day
= Had tea today
= Hung clothes on the line. Ran errands. Forgot to pack snacks. Crashed with hunger and went to TCBY. Ugh! What a start. But . . . $20.00 wine for party, $16.00 haircut for DH $33.00 gas, 50 cents thrift store toy for DD $4.92 at TCBY (unnecessary), $18.00 to replace items that dog broke (long story), and necessary, CHEAP groceries at $98.00. Budgeted lunch at 10.49. 31.00 dog food, paid 2 utility bills $5.40 latte and snack at coffee shop. Why oh why do all of my meetings have to take place in these pricey establishments? I really need to start hosting them in my house... $7.00 yarn to knit DD's Christmas present " $10.00 on excesses at the zoo (feeding goats, carousel rides, wagon rental). We have a year-long pass, so I talk myself into using it into getting my money's worth. Then we get screwed on all of the extras they throw at you when you get there. $2.50 chai tea at another coffee shop meeting. Knitting needles to make Christmas present, $9.00, groceries for $104.00. 5.00 ice cream (unbudgeted), $6.00 bouncy castle admission (budgeted)
5/15 no spend days
1/8 art/work days 2/4 eat-out days unnecessary/unbudgeted spending (blah. we just went out for a stroll to our art fair and got really hungry... the food we got wasn't even that good...) library fines. is there anything worse than library fines? something that should be free except you were too lazy/disorganized 
BUT, i made a meal plan for the next week! applied for two part-time jobs, and made my (hopefully) last ever diaper order today for $98. $10 for movie and snack at moms and babies movie day, plus nearly half a tank of gas to drive across the city and back. i hate spending that money, but i guess i have to spend a little to see my friends and get out.! but i forgot that this weekend is thanksgiving and we're having family visit. there's gonna be a big grocery bill this weekend. there goes my food budget ... went shopping for thanksgiving dinner supplies, and i didn't even get dessert yet., surprisingly, no other money spent today besides taking the inlaws to lunch. nanny took us clothes shopping! i really needed some new winter clothes for dd, so that was a truly awesome gift. AND, since i was there, we managed to get out without anything sparkly, pink or otherwise impractical. dh spent $20 on groceries though.
$4 breakfast & an afternoon chocolate bar $7 Silly Banz for the girls $3 snacks at swimming $7 breakfast, $5 lottery ticket $8 lunch $3 breakfast, $30 take-out $34 pizza
) but this entailed over $50...daycare for DS, lunch, parking. I've been letting DH cover a lot of that type of thing on his personal "allowance" because I've been on mat leave but I got my first paycheque on Friday so I felt like I should get this one.|
Originally Posted by SilverFish
dh is pretty generous by nature, and tends to like to treat people when we go out (plus has a weird independence thing with his parents where he doesn't want them to do anything for him). but we can't afford to do that 4 days in a row when the inlaws are visiting. even splitting 50/50 would totally wreck our budget. so i was constantly trying to work the conversation around so dh wouldn't get a chance to whip out his credit card until his mom had a chance to offer to pay. ugh. i HATED it. and eating and staying in all 4 days wasn't a great option either, since they don't really like the kind of food i make.
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Eek! My DH is a bigamist and married to YOU!! That or we have freakishly similar DHs.... I DREAD seeing my ILs because it ends up costly for the very reasons you described. I've been getting better at suggesting cheap activities like museum visits, but eating out is the real bear!
Budgeted, planned spending (includes groceries, gas, other necessary or well planned items- NOT impulse items) No Spend No Drive Impulse, Unnecessary Spending Eat Out Groceries, consumables, and gas rest of grocery shopping DH and I had a date night, I think dinner was overpriced, but it was good. And DH got steak, which I never make.- Gymnastics and Art classes for the month for dd haircut for dd but it was a missions dinner at church so I am giving it a Went to a local library book sale, spent waay more than I wanted, but we homeschool and will use everything and it was a good deal so I need to give myself a break! Picked up Chinese for me, DH and the girls are out for the evening so I splurged. did spend $221 on car repairs, but I am calling it a no spend day because I didn't go into one store, shop online, etc. Only because my best friend who is moving in a week asked us to join her family at Chick Fil A for kids eat free night. So I'm not thrilled we ate out, but I'm letting it go..
(ate at home all day, completed a survey for $2) (soccer sign-up fees, some stock-up grocery shopping with coupons--hooray for free toothbrushes!) (expensive clothes and food out) (birthday gift and card for young cousin's party) (insanely priced girly hair/makeup experience-$33, the balance on DD's glasses-$35)
$4 breakfast & an afternoon chocolate bar $7 Silly Banz for the girls $3 snacks at swimming $7 breakfast, $5 lottery ticket $8 lunch $3 breakfast, $30 take-out
Budgeted, planned spending (includes groceries, gas, other necessary or well planned items- NOT impulse items) No Spend No Drive Impulse, Unnecessary Spending Eat Out Groceries, consumables, and gas rest of grocery shopping DH and I had a date night, I think dinner was overpriced, but it was good. And DH got steak, which I never make.- Gymnastics and Art classes for the month for dd haircut for dd but it was a missions dinner at church so I am giving it a Went to a local library book sale, spent waay more than I wanted, but we homeschool and will use everything and it was a good deal so I need to give myself a break! Picked up Chinese for me, DH and the girls are out for the evening so I splurged. did spend $221 on car repairs, but I am calling it a no spend day because I didn't go into one store, shop online, etc. Only because my best friend who is moving in a week asked us to join her family at Chick Fil A for kids eat free night. So I'm not thrilled we ate out, but I'm letting it go..
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