This week's efforts

Here is a listing of actions we have taken- or not taken- to reduce household expenditures this week:

Monday 8-14 : Returned outfit I bought last week. Saved $56

Tuesday 8-15 : Walked to grocery store (4 miles round trip). Only bought what I could fit in my shopping cart- $26. Contacted STRS to withdraw small teacher's pension amount to add to existing IRA.

Wednesday 8-16 : Joined Akron Cheapcycle- website to sell items locally.  Posted dorm sheet set- no response yet.

Thursday 8-17 : Drove downtown (about 6 miles round trip) to farm market.  Only spent $2, got just what we needed and could use in a day or two.  Enjoyed beautiful stands with local produce, bread, etc. Went to library while in town, got free DVDs to watch this week.This evening walked to grocery store (with Jeff !), stuck to our list, spend only $7.75.

Friday 8-18 : Had job interview (successful I think) in AM. Drove 1 mile there and back, but no further driving today (had headache so was not tempted to run around anyway). Jeff took his lunch to work, saving the cash he usually spends on eating out on Fridays.

Saturday 8-19 : Jeff and I tried to consolidate our uptown errands to do in one trip today.  Our itinerary:  drop items at Goodwill, start laundry at his Mom's (we have to use coin-op facility at our condo complex, so it really helps to do laundry at his mom's or my parents'), drop books at library out that way, back to his mom's where Jeff put up his mom's cuckoo clock while we waited for laundry to be done. Took a load home to air dry rather than use electric dryer.  His mom kindly gave us  lunch, and we made dinner at home, thus spending $0 on food, which is rather unusual for a Saturday.  Instead of buying a new feather toy for our new cat who destroyed his old one, we borrowed back some cat toys we had shared with Jeff's mom, thus spending $0.  We did go to a discount drug store to get some necessities, spend about $17, which Jeff says should do him for a month.  Used coupons totalling $4. Had dinner at home using ingredients we had laying around the pantry and the squash I bought  at the farm market on Thursday- very yummy.

Tomorrow will be a test for the budget- we usually grocery shop on Sunday when the sale paper comes out.  Will try to hold it to $60. Stay tuned!

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Sounds like you are really taking on the budget. Thanks for sharing your step by step process. I'm sure we all will benefit.
Susan from ThriftyFun

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