Savings Review 12/12 - 12/25 - Thrifty Texas Penny

Savings Review 12/12 – 12/25

December 26, 2011 by Cricket

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.

Spending for the past 2 weeks:

Brookshire’s spent $8.45, saved $30.26

Cut Hubby and Turkey’s hair myself: spent $0.00, saved $26.00

CVS spent $7.52, saved $41.90

Dollar Tree spent $6.00, saved $5.63

Goodwill spent: $4.98, saved $12.66

Habitat for Humanity Restore spent $33.97, saved $15.00

Hobby Lobby spent $11.22, saved $1.79

Home Depot spent $138.43, saved $229.00 ($200 because we made the items ourselves instead of buying retail)

Online Shopping spent $10.56, saved $25.43

Super1Foods spent $36.71, saved $47.34

Walgreens spent $0.15 saved $17.27

Walmart spent $30.10, saved $2.03

Total Spent: $288.09 Total Saved $454.31

Money Made
Superpoints: cashed out $5.00

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

Total Money Made: $5.00

Money saved this week: $454.31 + $5.00 = $459.31 This means $588.86 of my husband’s salary saved (click here to see how I get this amount)