Week 5 of my $60 Budget

I did great last week! I only spent $36.90!

In case you're wondering what's included in my budget, it's groceries, health & beauty, toiletries, cleaning supplies, paper goods like paper towels & tissues, diapers, formula (although now we're done with it! Hallelujah!), etc.

I really worked it at Walgreens last week with lots of money-making.

I made a few Brookshire's trips that went really well and one Kroger trip. I also went to Target and got free deodorant and Easy Mac.

If I'm consistently under budget for the next few weeks, I may drop the budget to $50. Or I'm thinking about putting the extra in a "stockpile" fund for when a really great sale comes along. What do you think?

Week 4 of my $60 Budget

I didn't do a lot of shopping this week, but I didn't use a lot of coupons, either.

I spent a total of $52.13. $23 on meat because my Hubs said he was getting tired of chicken. :)

Just a so-so week.

How about you? What kind of budget are you working with & are you sticking to it?

Week 3 of my $60 Budget

I came out about the same this week. I spent $56.29.

$11.99 was baby formula, and I am counting the DAYS until I can switch Bebe Girl to whole milk. It's 8.

I bought four newspapers for a total of $5.26.

I guess I'm doing pretty well on $60 a week, but there haven't been any major stockpiling opportunities since I started this budget. One good sale might be too much for me to handle!

Week 2 of my $60 Budget

I stayed under my budget this week, spending $51.22 from April 8th-14th. But I'm not overly impressed considering I didn't buy any newspapers and I didn't do much stockpiling.

My savings for the week was $305.43.

I guess I'm still on target. This week looks slow on sales, so maybe I'll do even better.

Week 1 of my $60 Weekly Budget

Ok, this may be harder than I thought!

Before I did the math, I thought I was way under. April 1st thru 7th, I spent $58.67 on grocery & drug store items. So I was only a little under. Hmmmm...

I spent $9.03 on newspapers this week. I got 7 because it was such a GREAT week with 5 inserts. I included that $9.03 in my $60 budget.

I'm also apparently not done buying baby formula. Bebe Girl goes through it so fast! She has her next doctor's appointment on April 30, and hopefully she can start drinking regular milk. That was $10 of my budget.

I'm sticking with the $60 budget for April, though.

You know, the funniest part is that 70% of that total is probably sales tax!