Challenges
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Lessons Learned from My Grocery Challenge
November 12, 2009
Over the last 4 weeks, I challenged myself to only spend $40 a week for groceries. It was a challenge, but I am happy to report that I was quite successful. (My weekly total averaged a little less than $43...
I am now back to work full-time and expect to keep my job until at least April. These are the new goals I am working on to help my dream of being a stay-at-home mom a...
I am a bit of a grocery shopping voyeur. When I am in line, I look at what other people are buying–healthy food? junk food? expensive items?
The other day when I was...
When I had my No Spending Month back in June, I started looking very carefully at my receipts. (Every penny counts!)
Here is a picture of my son enjoying his $15 birthday bike. My cousin thought it was brand new. My son loved...
For my June challenge, I had a no spending month and challenged myself to only spend $500 for the month for groceries, gas,...
Now that June is almost over, I thought I would share what I learned about myself and my family during these 4 weeks when I tried to spend less than $500.
–I like to spend money....
6/19–$35.00 (gas), $15.20 Jewel (groceries), $22.68 Tony’s (groceries), $10.42 beer for husband (for Father’s Day)6/20—06/21—06/22—06/23—5.75 Starbuck’s6/24—36.74 Dominick’s (groceries)
4th 6 Days = 125.79Total for 24 days = 590.79
Well,...
For this challenge, I specifically did not stock up on necessities before the month began because I wanted this month to be the same as any other month. It just so happened that we ran out...
Toward the end of the second six days, this challenge started getting very difficult. Our cats just so happened to run out of their cat litter, soft cat food and hard cat food at the same time,...