The household budget for our family is $400 a month and includes all groceries, household products, diapers, health and beauty, clothing, gifts, decorations and newspapers. A little on the lean side? Perhaps, but it works for our family. Whether your number is $300 or $1000, you should do what works for your family.
spent $.49, saved $20.75
Brookshire’s spent $7.18, saved $5.75
CVS spent: $0.00, saved $14.06
Garage Sale spent $10.25, saved $46.15
Super 1 Foods spent $22.12, saved $7.58
Walgreens spent $.49, saved $6.69
Walmart: spent $12.08 saved $26.11
Total Spent: $49.68 Total Saved $109.34
Money Made
Garage Sale: $98.65 ? (I don’t remember the total exactly)
Before I started blogging I would earn about $10 a week for a couple hours of time with these programs. Here are the monthly totals for the online programs that I use most often for rewards:
Inbox Dollars: updated monthly
Inbox Pays: updated monthly
Ipsos Survey Panel: updated monthly
MyPoints: updated monthly
RewardPort: updated monthly
Swagbucks: updated monthly
Zoombucks: updated monthly
Money saved this week: $109.34 + $98.65 = $207.99 This means $266.65 of my husband’s salary saved (click here to see how I get this amount)
If you’re keeping track, I now have less than $5 to spend for the rest of the month. I won’t skip deal shopping alltogether though because that hurts our budget in the long run. Hopefully I’ll be less than $20 over budget for the month, leaving me with about $25 to balance out during the month of November.
