The household budget for our family is $500 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:  a friend shopped for me $2.00, saved $4.00 CVS spent: $.30, saved $4.59 Super1Foods: spent $3.54, saved $4.67 Target spent: $3.37, saved $20.12 Total Spent $9.21, {Read More}

The household budget for our family is $500 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:  a friend shopped for me $2.80, saved $3.20 Brookshire’s spent $14.24, saved $16.51 CVS spent: $.13, saved $22.85 DQ spent $5, saved $2.68 * Super1Foods: spent {Read More}

The household budget for our family is $500 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. You may have noticed that I haven’t shopped at Walgreens or CVS in a couple of weeks.  It’s been a nice hiatus, but I will be getting {Read More}

The household budget for our family is $500 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:  Brookshire’s spent $13.86, saved $7.90 Office Depot spent $.54, saved $14.95 Super1Foods: spent $16.65, saved $5.83 Walmart spent: 36.02, saved $5.23Total Spent $67.07, Total Saved: $33.91 {Read More}

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. Spending: Being out of town sure helped curb the spending this week CVS: spent $1.48, saved $7.38 Super1Foods: spent $18.87, saved $27.83 Target: spent $1.12, saved $6.91Walgreens spent $0.98, saved $17.00Total {Read More}

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. Spending: Since I burned most of my RRs and ECBs on diapers and the outdoor chairs last week, so I’m starting nearly fresh and feeling the pain   CVS: spent $8.99, {Read More}

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. CVS and Walgreens  6 Stores, 10 Transactions spent $12.00, saved $150.43  Spending: The bulk of our grocery shopping was last Saturday evening, so this is like two week’s spending for us. Boy do these totals {Read More}

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.   CVS and Walgreens  3 Stores, 4 Transactions spent $1.23, saved $41.89 Spending: We were busy this week, so we haven’t shopped much.  We’ll be heading out this evening to CVS, {Read More}

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. What a nice week this was.  The only shopping I did was one teeny little purchase at Walgreens.  My husband did the rest!  We are getting low on milk and produce, so {Read More}

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. In April our house back in Arkansas got rented out again, and you can tell that I breathed with our spending again.  I spent: $402.39 I saved: $714.46 Extra money I made: {Read More}