The household budget for our family is $500 a month and includes all groceries, household products, 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.
This week felt like I was spending way to much over last week, but it all evens out in the end. That’s the beauty of lose budgets: One week you save and because the deals are better to spend it on the next week.
CVS and Walgreens
3 Stores, 3 Transactions
spent $2.30, saved $55.44
Spending:
CVS: spent $0.27, saved $7.72
A Friend Shopped for Me: spent $2.98, saved $17.90
Super 1 Foods: spent: $12.51, saved $10.38
Walgreens spent $2.03, saved $47.72
Walmart spent: $51.46, saved $24.62
Total Spent $69.25, Total Saved: $108.34
Money Made-
Clothing Consignment: $10
As of 5/14/2011, I’m
going to move my online rewards to a monthly report since it’s hit and miss
that I’m able to do these programs. I do want to include it so that you
can see that these programs do work and that they are a viable means of
earning a little spending money. Before I started blogging I would
earn about $10 a week for a couple hours of time with these programs.
Here are the programs that I use most often for rewards:
Inbox Dollars:
RewardPort:
Money saved this week: $108.34 + $10 = $118.34 This means $151.72 of DH’s salary saved (click here to see how I get this amount)
Hi there Floral- I had a raincheck from a couple of weeks ago when they were BOGO. I also had a BOGO up to $4.49 Q, so I paid just $.49 for each pair. They will be BOGO again starting 5/29, so if you have the BOGO Q you can do the same, just watch to make sure the register rings it up correctly and not something funny like $2.50 and $2.49.
I’d like to hear how you did the rightguard body wash!.. my son loves that!