April Budget Challenge – Week 4

WAHOO! We’re done! :) Now it’s time to focus on the May Grocery Challenge. Have you signed up yet? If you haven’t, today’s your last day!!! So far, we have 56 64 particpants, making this the biggest challenge yet!

How did you do this week, and what did you think of this particular challenge? Was it easier/harder than you expected? Did you learn anything from this experience?

I learned that I need to be a little more disciplined with my dining out, and I need to plan things better. When I’m hanging out with J, I never really know what we’ll end up doing … so it’s hard to keep within a set budget. Especially b/c he doesn’t budget for things like this at all. I would do better with an overall budget, I think … but I really like setting these goals for myself, and it helps to keep Personal Finance challenging and fresh and exciting.

Clothing

• Dolly Iris – $10/$100

Dining out

• change is a good thing – $23.97/$50
• krystalatwork – over/$50
• pennypincher – over/$100

Groceries

• BeachGirl – $91.57/$150
• Frugaleconome – $137/$150
• L@SpillingBuckets – $247.61/$250
• Natalie – $223/$200

Miscellaneous

• QL girl – $255.87/$300
• TV Girl – $1.08/$20

Other

• Tough Broad – $1,359/$1,200 (towards CC debt)

One Response to “April Budget Challenge – Week 4”

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1. “It’s easy to, and it’s easy NOT to” says:

   Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 09:53am at 9:33 am

   [...] I succeeded in the challenge!  Just squeaked under the wire with $247.  Now the new challenge is to stick [...]

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