~ March No-Spend Challenge ~ - Page 4

[averysmomma05]

3/1-

3/2-4.99 on a PPV movie for my sick daughter. 42.xx grocery

3/3-48.xx grocery (budgeted)

3/4-$5.xx on hotdogs at the quick stop,drinks,candy

3/5-$72.xx on groceries (budgeted)

3/6- Not buying anything today and will make $20 at my side job tonight.

3/7- 29.xx groceries

3/8-Bill paying day/ $40  on dinner out.

3/9- $0 today!

3/10-$160 meat and grocery, $70 baby clothes

3/11-$12 on bagels

[mich]

Crashed and burned yesterday. Impulse purchase online, spent $103. Stopped at Walmart, spent $100. Both I could have very easily done without. Where is the bag over the head smilie, or a hang your head in shame smilie?

[my2girlz]

3/1 $96.17 at Target (some groceries, clothing, household items)

3/2 $289.xx at Costco (1x/month stop)

3/3 $48.25 movie theater (rare treat), $13.55 Starbucks, $474.10 at Babies 'r Us (planned, budgeted $500)

3/4 $60.01 gas, earned $61.xx at OUAC

3/5 $35.07 Walmart (groceries), $13.17 Cub Foods (groceries) $17.00 Great Clips (dh's hair)

3/6 $0!!

3/7 $52.48 at Target (movie, plus some needed items like bandaids, neosporin, tylenol)

3/8 $19.88 at Wendys (had an appt that stretched over lunch), $11.83 at Cub Foods (groceries)

3/9 $0!!

3/10 $12.83 for cat food

3/11 $31 for gas, $9 car wash, $103.86 at SuperTarget ($31 for needed clothes for dd3, $72.86 was groceries), $16.49 to fill up propane tank

budgeted

$424.76/$800 groceries

$91.01/$150 gas

[tiqa]

3/9 - No spend! No drive! Yay.

3/10 - No spend!

3/11 - No spend!  No drive!

[Ruthiegirl]

Mar 1 -- 

Mar 2 --   

Mar 3 -- 9.54 3 pairs of jeans for dd, 10.60 goggles for lacrosse 

Mar 4 -- 

Mar 5 -- 

Mar 6 -- 

Mar 7 -- 

Mar 8 -- 3.00 snack for ds, 9.00 ice cream 

Mar 9 --  

Mar 10 -- 34.00 family day at the Eagle fesitval

Mar 11 --  

Mar 12

Mar 13

Mar 14

Mar 15 

Mar 16 -- pay day

[my2girlz]

3/1 $96.17 at Target (some groceries, clothing, household items)

3/2 $289.xx at Costco (1x/month stop)

3/3 $48.25 movie theater (rare treat), $13.55 Starbucks, $474.10 at Babies 'r Us (planned, budgeted $500)

3/4 $60.01 gas, earned $61.xx at OUAC

3/5 $35.07 Walmart (groceries), $13.17 Cub Foods (groceries) $17.00 Great Clips (dh's hair)

3/6 $0!!

3/7 $52.48 at Target (movie, plus some needed items like bandaids, neosporin, tylenol)

3/8 $19.88 at Wendys (had an appt that stretched over lunch), $11.83 at Cub Foods (groceries)

3/9 $0!!

3/10 $12.83 for cat food

3/11 $31 for gas, $9 car wash, $103.86 at SuperTarget ($31 for needed clothes for dd3, $72.86 was groceries), $16.49 to fill up propane tank

3/12 $29.94 at Bath & Body Works (hand soap and wallflower, taken from groceries since it's for the household)

budgeted

$454.70/$800 groceries

$91.01/$150 gas

[tiqa]

3/1  $22.84 @ KFC

3/2 - Walmart - $381.07 to stock the pantry - starting from scratch

3/3  $183.65 @ TJ Maxx for needed pots & pans & silverware (they got lost in the move) and a few misc kitchen accessories that weren't strictly needed 

3/4  - No spend!  

3/5 - 5.33 Tim Horton's for the whole family

3/6  - 17.49 - cat litter

3/7  - No spend! 

3/8 - Walmart:  $252.08  - room painting supplies, pantry stock-up; 16.16 Taco Bell

3/9 - No spend! No drive! Yay.

3/10 - No spend!

3/11 - No spend! No drive!

3/12 - Walmart:  81.86 groceries, 33.09 miscellaneous (litter box, paintbrush, calendar, shower curtain liner, coffeemaker - all relatively needed)

[Ruthiegirl]

Stopped in all the local thrift stores today looking for a stroller.  No stroller, but I did buy baskets for the kids and a cute set of pretty blue juice glasses.  Neither really needed...

Mar 1 -- 

Mar 2 --   

Mar 3 -- 9.54 3 pairs of jeans for dd, 10.60 goggles for lacrosse 

Mar 4 -- 

Mar 5 -- 

Mar 6 -- 

Mar 7 -- 

Mar 8 -- 3.00 snack for ds, 9.00 ice cream 

Mar 9 --  

Mar 10 -- 34.00 family day at the Eagle fesitval

Mar 11 -- 

Mar 12 -- 

Mar 13 -- 9.00 bathing suits for the younger boys

Mar 14 -- 4.50 spring baskets and juice glasses

Mar 15 

Mar 16 -- pay day

Edited by Ruthiegirl - 3/14/12 at 3:47pm

[tiqa]

3/1 $22.84 @ KFC

3/2 - Walmart - $381.07 to stock the pantry - starting from scratch

3/3 $183.65 @ TJ Maxx for needed pots & pans & silverware (they got lost in the move) and a few misc kitchen accessories that weren't strictly needed

3/4 - No spend!

3/5 - 5.33 Tim Horton's for the whole family

3/6 - 17.49 - cat litter

3/7 - No spend!

3/8 - Walmart: $252.08 - room painting supplies, pantry stock-up; 16.16 Taco Bell

3/9 - No spend! No drive! Yay.

3/10 - No spend!

3/11 - No spend! No drive!

3/12 - Walmart: 81.86 groceries, 33.09 miscellaneous (litter box, paintbrush, calendar, shower curtain liner, coffeemaker - all relatively needed)

3/13 - No spend! No drive!

[my2girlz]

3/1 $96.17 at Target (some groceries, clothing, household items)

3/2 $289.xx at Costco (1x/month stop)

3/3 $48.25 movie theater (rare treat), $13.55 Starbucks, $474.10 at Babies 'r Us (planned, budgeted $500)

3/4 $60.01 gas, earned $61.xx at OUAC

3/5 $35.07 Walmart (groceries), $13.17 Cub Foods (groceries) $17.00 Great Clips (dh's hair)

3/6 $0!!

3/7 $52.48 at Target (movie, plus some needed items like bandaids, neosporin, tylenol)

3/8 $19.88 at Wendys (had an appt that stretched over lunch), $11.83 at Cub Foods (groceries)

3/9 $0!!

3/10 $12.83 for cat food

3/11 $31 for gas, $9 car wash, $103.86 at SuperTarget ($31 for needed clothes for dd3, $72.86 was groceries), $16.49 to fill up propane tank

3/12 $29.94 at Bath & Body Works (hand soap and wallflower, taken from groceries since it's for the household)

3/13 $48.97 Cubs Foods (groceries)

3/14 $5.78 at Starbucks

budgeted

$503.67/$800 groceries

$91.01/$150 gas

[Ruthiegirl]

Originally Posted by my2girlz 

3/14 $5.78 at Starbucks

Oh man, I wanted a coffee sooooo bad today.  I ran in to Target to check out a new stroller and the Starbucks kiosk was ridiculously tempting.  

[zebra15]

I think I'm doing well... We are not buying useless junk this month.  I'm not stopping at the gas station for soda (got that at the grocery lol) and we are taking snacks with us.

Easter just isn't going to happen on a grand scale around here.  I got some super clearnace stuff after xmas and DS is getting a puzzle and a game or something (i need to look) and thats about it.

I'm convinced we need to move come 5/1 so I'm all about using what we have and NOT spending money.

We are going to be moving x-country so that will be our only vacation. I want a bit of $$ to stop and see a few things along the way.

[FillingMyQuiver]

Key

  No Spend/ Budgeted Spending

  Unplanned/ Un-budgeted Spending

1.    Off to a good start

2.    Had to take DS1 to the dr.  Appointment was right at lunch time and since it was last minute, had to stop for lunch.  $20 @ McDs.

3.    We went to IKEA   $80 later, we came home w/ 2 step stools (kind of needed), pkg of juice glasses, 6 tea balls. and a steaming pitcher for our espresso machine (none really needed at all)

4.    Went to parents' for dinner, brought dessert and wine $30

5.  .  It's snowing here and I'm not leaving the house.

6. 

7.    Errand day, picked up the remainder of a load of boards for a project, picked up milk order and bulk foods co op order.  Order hemp seeds in bulk from Amazon.  All budgeted.

8. 

9. 

10. $50 @ WM, $35 for planned dinner out

11. overspent on food budget

12.

13.

14.   HUGE overspend day   $$ for topsoil to fill garden beds, $$ for dinner out w/ FIL who was visiting from out of state

I really need the rest of this month to be No Spend.  We've already slowed our debt payoff progression b/c of some choices this month, don't want it slowing down anymore.  Time to refocus.

[Ruthiegirl]

Cripes, what a month.  My no-spend challenge is going really well, but only because we have no spare cash after all of our other budgeted expenses.   Looking over the past two weeks of our spending is like watching a sucking vortex of money leaking from my account.  We paid the taxes ($$$$), ds broke his ankle, and dd just got new glasses.  Whoooosh...there went all the money.  

There has been some minimal un-budgted spending that I have listed here, but my real problem right now is that buying the basics zaps our account of so much cash.  And we make a decent income.  I don't know how other families are doing it.   This   and some of this .    

A friend invited me out for lunch on Monday and I just don't know how to tell her that I simply don't have the cash on hand right now.  I started this month knowing that I would need to make some tough choices and here they are.  

Mar 1 -- 

Mar 2 --   

Mar 3 -- 9.54 3 pairs of jeans for dd, 10.60 goggles for lacrosse 

Mar 4 -- 

Mar 5 -- 

Mar 6 -- 

Mar 7 -- 

Mar 8 -- 3.00 snack for ds, 9.00 ice cream 

Mar 9 --  

Mar 10 -- 34.00 family day at the Eagle fesitval

Mar 11 -- 

Mar 12 -- 

Mar 13 -- 9.00 bathing suits for the younger boys

Mar 14 -- 4.50 spring baskets and juice glasses

Mar 15 -- 

Mar 16 -- pay day

[tiqa]

3/1 $22.84 @ KFC

3/2 - Walmart - $381.07 to stock the pantry - starting from scratch

3/3 $183.65 @ TJ Maxx for needed pots & pans & silverware (they got lost in the move) and a few misc kitchen accessories that weren't strictly needed

3/4 - No spend!

3/5 - 5.33 Tim Horton's for the whole family

3/6 - 17.49 - cat litter

3/7 - No spend!

3/8 - Walmart: $252.08 - room painting supplies, pantry stock-up; 16.16 Taco Bell

3/9 - No spend! No drive! Yay.

3/10 - No spend!

3/11 - No spend! No drive!

3/12 - Walmart: 81.86 groceries, 33.09 miscellaneous (litter box, paintbrush, calendar, shower curtain liner, coffeemaker - all relatively needed)

3/13 - No spend! No drive!

3/14 - Another day, another fast food craving of the husband.  $16 at Wendy's.  Sigh.  That's like $60 so far of fast food this month.  Not cool.  I don't even want to mention DH's $11 a pack a day cigarette habit...  Gah.  He's been "quitting" for like six years!!!

3/15 - Spent $15 going to the dump to get rid of all our moving stuff.  But it was a bunch of stuff and it would have cost $100 to have it hauled off.  So I feel it was a great bargain.  The lady there tried to get me to sign up for their regular garbage collection service at "only" $25 a month - but I didn't see the point because I can just drop it off myself for so much cheaper.  And it forces us to cut down on what throw out if we know the magic garbage truck isn't going to haul it off to happy nowhere land.

[zebra15]

NO spend today... only went to swim team (brought my own drink) and baked at home!  GO ME

[tiqa]

3/1  - $22.84 @ KFC

3/2 - Walmart - $381.07 to stock the pantry (needed)

3/3 - $183.65 @ TJ Maxx (needed)

3/4 -

3/5 - 5.33 Tim Horton

3/6 - 17.49 - cat litter

3/7 - 

3/8 - Walmart: $252.08 - room painting supplies, pantry stock-up; 16.16 Taco Bell 

3/9 -  

3/10 -

3/11 -  

3/12 - Walmart: 81.86 groceries, 33.09 miscellaneous

3/13 -   

3/14 - $16 at Wendy's 

3/15 - $15 - garbage disposal

3/16 - 

Running Total:

No spend days:  7

No drive days:  3

Edited by tiqa - 3/16/12 at 3:28pm

[Ruthiegirl]

Mar 1 -- 

Mar 2 --   

Mar 3 -- 9.54 3 pairs of jeans for dd, 10.60 goggles for lacrosse 

Mar 4 -- 

Mar 5 -- 

Mar 6 -- 

Mar 7 -- 

Mar 8 -- 3.00 snack for ds, 9.00 ice cream 

Mar 9 --  

Mar 10 -- 34.00 family day at the Eagle fesitval

Mar 11 -- 

Mar 12 -- 

Mar 13 -- 9.00 bathing suits for the younger boys

Mar 14 -- 4.50 spring baskets and juice glasses

Mar 15 -- 

Mar 16 -- 

Mar 17 -- 

Mar 18 -- 128.00 bathing suits for me, dh, dd, and ds

Mar 19 

Mar 20

Mar 21

Mar 22

Edited by Ruthiegirl - 3/18/12 at 6:58pm

[zebra15]

2 pairs of shoes (needed for work as I hope to go back to corporate america soon), newspaper and sodas,  about $55.

Yesterday  $100  2 shirts and 1 pair of pants... again for going back to work... 

[FillingMyQuiver]

Key

  No Spend/ Budgeted Spending

  Unplanned/ Un-budgeted Spending

1.    Off to a good start

2.    Had to take DS1 to the dr.  Appointment was right at lunch time and since it was last minute, had to stop for lunch.  $20 @ McDs.

3.    We went to IKEA   $80 later, we came home w/ 2 step stools (kind of needed), pkg of juice glasses, 6 tea balls. and a steaming pitcher for our espresso machine (none really needed at all)

4.    Went to parents' for dinner, brought dessert and wine $30

5.  .  It's snowing here and I'm not leaving the house.

6. 

7.    Errand day, picked up the remainder of a load of boards for a project, picked up milk order and bulk foods co op order.  Order hemp seeds in bulk from Amazon.  All budgeted.

8. 

9. 

10. $50 @ WM, $35 for planned dinner out

11. overspent on food budget

12.

13.

14.   HUGE overspend day   $$ for topsoil to fill garden beds, $$ for dinner out w/ FIL who was visiting from out of state

15.

16. $25 on pizza delivery

17.

18. $16 ice cream treat for kids' hard work helping move topsoil, $25 for cheap sneakers for kids for dirt play