Friday, February 19, 2010

January Totals



















I realized I forgot to post the totals for January after keeping track of every dollar so meticulously. For now we decided that this is how our monthly grocery budget is going to work: we will set aside $180 for annies (which I am in the process of finding some way to reduce the cost, other than bringing in extra income), and then have $200 set aside for everything else, like diapers, other grocery items, CVS, Walgreens (for the occasional deal on something we absolutely need, otherwise I avoid them like the plague, at least until they revise their rewards program, which is rumored to be happening), and pretty much anything else we could possibly justify buying.

So, here are the totals for January:

Shelf cost of everything we bought: $808.06

Total savings from items on sale: $258.28

Total savings from coupons: $364.34

Total in qualifying rebates from this month: $28.46

Total spent (from the $200): $213.90 (oops)

I went a little over, but I deducted the overage from February's budget to make up for it.

For February I was able to earn $200+ from babysitting and cashing in some savings bonds so that we didn't have to take out any money from the ATM for the beginning of the month. Yay!!

We were also able to skip 3 weeks of Annie's since our garden was overflowing everywhere, so that saved us a bit as well. Thanks to our tax return our Feb. payment to the loans will be substantially larger than we thought.

While it's nice to be paying off debt, it hurts to think that this money could be going toward saving for a house. If only...but better late than never. :)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Publix Italian Days









If you have a Publix near you head over to frugalfloridian.com to enter a $25 Publix gift card giveaway. Yay!

Also, yesterday I test drove the KIA Sorento and submitted the form for the $25 Visa giftcard. Nice car. Maybe one day when we're in the market again we'll consider one that's a couple years old. It's nice to know we'll never have to deal with dealerships again, ever. :)