Spending Recap: August 23-29, 2010
Monday 23rd
$14.21 farm market
$14.64 butcher
$16.59 bakery
Tuesday 24th
$10.32 ice cream (whoops!)
Wednesday 25th
No Spend Day!
Thursday 26th
$36.17 gas
$16.29 groceries
$11.51 nail polish stuff for friend’s wedding
Friday 27th
$13.75 ferry
$18.37 dinner for BF and I
$5.41 snacks for ferry
Saturday 28th
+$182.94 pay cheque from old PT job
$48.07 groceries
$52.80 hair cut
$11.24 coffee & pastry for sister and I
$12 bubble tea for cousin and I
Sunday 29th
+$50 sister owed me money
$44.79 WildPlay ropes course
$3.98 Starbucks
$17.65 lunch
$13.75 ferry
$41.65 gas
TOTAL: $170.25
Weekends home are always a budget buster. There are always way too many people to see who want to do fun things because I’m rarely ever home. So I really try to limit the amount of pricey things I do when I’m home.
This weekend home was especially spendy because my sister and I wanted to do our annual sister’s road trip, and of course that ropes course that I did. Review of that coming soon!
So my HUGE saving grace was that I got a random pay cheque for $182.94 in the mail at my parents house from my old PT job. I *think* it’s all of my unpaid vacation time that I had accrued. That itself pretty much paid for my entire trip home, which is awesome. And my sister gave me $50 that she owed me from a while ago.
Because of my found money, I ended the week pretty much on par with my regular spending habits. I could have cut out a lot of dining out, but BF and I were trying a new grocery shopping method and clearly it didn’t work. We’re trying to do one big shop of $120-140 every 2 weeks, and a smaller shop during the in-between week (small shop was on Monday 23rd). Next time we will know to buy more food during the in-between week, because we pretty much ran out of food by Thursday.
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Hey, give yourself a TON of credit – between the found money and at least one no-spend day, you got it right! Me? Well, I'm still working on it … I'm buying a lot of food for my boyfriend when he visits. *sigh* why do boyfriends make it so hard to stay on budget?
Hey, give yourself a TON of credit – between the found money and at least one no-spend day, you got it right! Me? Well, I'm still working on it … I'm buying a lot of food for my boyfriend when he visits. *sigh* why do boyfriends make it so hard to stay on budget?