We have made it through another week of our NO spend month. However, this week was kind of tough. Grant was sick with Hand, Foot and Mouth. He didn't really want to eat anything that we offered. So Mike and I both made a trip to the grocery store to find items that he might eat. I bought jello cups, yogurt, applesauce, and strawberry applesauce and Mike got some bagles, mac & cheese, and a bunch of other things hoping Grant would eat them. We were going to try anything to get him to at least eat a little bit to keep him hydrated.
Well, we pretty much blew our grocery budget this week between the snack items and a couple of bottles of medicine for Grant. We spend a total of $49 just at the grocery store. Mike also filled up his car this week which was $30. Since it was also Valentines day I made dinner at home and then we went to the movies. We did have passes to the movies and a coupon for free popcorn. I did end up buying a drink at the movies which was crazy.
So it looks like we spent a total of $83 this week. It was definitely more than I wanted to spend, but we just have to be really carefully the next two weeks.
Total spend for 2 weeks $150 - remainder for the month $100.
14 years ago
3 comments:
Wow! You go girl! I'm very impressed. This budget amount would be burned VERY quickly @ our home; How did you figure the amount? We have so much going on medically that I don't even know how we would make it! I hope that little Grant gets to feeling better...I totally understand the whoa's of sick children. I'm sorry.
Thanks so much for warning us that our kids might get Hand, Foot, and Mouth too. Luke came down with it and we would've been clueless if you hadn't let us know Grant was diagnosed with it--we've never had it in our family before. You saved us a trip to the doctor.
We did some research on the Internet about the virus and knew there wasn't much we could do so we've been just giving Luke pain medicine. I think that has really helped him eat/drink/walk/sleep/function.
What a bummer that Grant got sick during your No Spend Month. We respect your efforts and watch your progress. We might have to try it too.
Don't know how you are doing it. It seems that everytime I have to go to the store I walk out with way more than I intended and the blasted older your children get, the harder it is. However, you do give me hope, maybe I can start.....
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