February No-Spend Challenge Week 4

Here is my Key:

No Spend Days
Budgeted Spend Days
Unbudgeted Spend Days
Meals At Home All Day
Something Frugal For The Day
Sewed For 30 Minutes Or More
Made/Found Money



February 22: - Got chinese food for dinner   - Made lunch sacks
February 23: - Got more firestater logs and a tub of ice cream        - Made Pee Pee Huts for my shop and a heating pad for my husband and I
February 24: - Paid phone bill      - Made big kid undies for my shop
February 25: - Got clothes from goodwill, paid car insurance and skylar got his monthly allowance        - Made make up removers   - Made $6 for being a mystery shopper for Bestmark  
February 26:         - Cut out some cloth wipes
February 27:         - Made over 100 cloth wipes
February 28: - Garden Maintance       - Made more cloth wipes

My February Goals:

No Spend/Budgeted Days = 21/20
Sewing Days = 14/20
Frugal Days = 11/15
Meals At Home Days = 24/25

Gas = $151.20/$120

I'm very happy to say that I made my No Spend/Budgeted Days and Meals At Home Days goal  Next month I hope I have more no spend days but there are a couple of things I need next month that wont be in the budget...grrrr.... So I already know it wont be a perfect No Spend month. I also hope that I meet my 20 days per month sewing days so I can put more items in my shop. Since it is getting warmer I hope to have more frugal days and start planting veggies in my garden. One big uh oh this month was gas... I wasn't expecting to spend over $120 in gas this month but I went over by almost $32. So next month it is getting raised to $240 since we will be doing a lot more driving.

How did you do this week?

I hoped this has inspired you to try a No-Spend Challenge. I will be doing this challenge for the rest of the year on mothering.com. It really does help you save and not spend money. Just try it for a month, what can you lose?

February No-Spend Challenge Week 3

Here is my Key:

No Spend Days
Budgeted Spend Days
Unbudgeted Spend Days
Meals At Home All Day
Something Frugal For The Day
Sewed For 30 Minutes Or More
Made/Found Money



February 15:         - No heater use today
February 16: - E-Filed State return through H&R Block $19.95      - Redid elastic for cloth diapers for a friend and made myself a little reuseable fabric scraps and trash bag
February 17: - Paid credit card bill, Gas $53.33  -Hair dye at target $7.73 and laundry soap and Rum at CVS $10.94       - Redid elastic for cloth diapers for a friend.
February 18:         - Used fireplace today!  - Redid elastic for cloth diapers for a friend.
February 19:          -  Used fireplace today!
February 20: - Paid credit card bill and got some gardening supplies at Walmart $4.16      
February 21:      

My February Goals:

No Spend/Budgeted Days = 16/20
Sewing Days = 7/20
Frugal Days = 11/15
Meals At Home Days = 19/25

Gas = $151.20/$120


So far this week I think I did pretty good. I did buy hair dye but my roots are showing and I have to redye it. I also did need good smelling laundry soap for our sheets, blankets, pillows and towels. Plus I wanted to make mojitos this weekend so I bought the Rum. I was sad that I couldn't use my ECB to get the alcohol for free, but it is what it is. I'm glad I did get to sew a lot more this week but as a result my wrist hurts so I will have to take it easy and not sew for 6 hours straight like I was doing. Meal planning has helped us out so much this month on not eating out. There are times where I don't want to cook but then I look at how much we used to spend on eating out and it motivates me. I do have to get more firewood so we can use the fireplace more instead of the heater. Skylar finally got his tablet working so there isn't to much TV time thank goodness. I did go over my budget on gas since I didn't expect my darling husband to start work so fast. Next month the budget will be $240. Hopefully that will be enough.

How did you do this week?