Spending Freeze Check In

[sh10]

Is anyone still doing this? We haven't checked in for a while. How is everyone doing? 

[sh10]

The freeze is going well, and apparently very necessary. We had our sump pump go out during a big storm, so that will probably be $500. And DH's car needs some brake work, which is also around $500. I have only eaten out one non-planned time, which is really good for me. We leave to visit family in about three hours, so hopefully they will buy us meals

[estrellita]

Terribly, haha. We've put ourselves on a new one. Yesterday neither of us spent money and today H will have to pay for parking by my work (he's stopping in with E later) and we might buy a couple Mad Men episodes but I'm going to try avoiding getting ice cream if we go for a walk tonight!

DC costs are really hurting us so we're trying to come up with a better plan including meal planning and avoiding spending money on things we can make at home, like coffee. Hopefully we can stick with it!

[aspentosh]

I'm still doing it, and doing it well. We went strawberry picking yesterday ($11) but we got fruit so it was like paying for groceries otherwise this last week was just bills and gas/groceries.

Our food bill is still low for us ($350).
I've not bought anything for the house or clothes, accessories or just stuff.

Doing well and I will continue it into June because spending $3700 to fix H's car is requiring it

[rugbywife]

I started this, lol. I haven't failed entirely but not doing great. Can't believe we are already this far through the month

[pizzanight]

I suck at this. Bought bras, $60 worth of kids stuff at the Carters sale, matching pajamas for the kids on Zulily during the Leveret event...

We have done well with bringing lunches but man, no wonder we have no idea where our money is going.

[hetty]

I did really well up until this last week when I bought lunch three times...oops.

We are starting 21 day fix next week, so the planning required for that should be a big help in staying on track.

[IrishBelle]

I've been doing pretty well but with a plan to hit up Costco this weekend, its not going to end so well. I haven't been in quite a while and I need so much.

[ewall]

Not doing too bad. We spent so little in the first half of the month that we didn't hit the limit to cash in our cash back points. That like never happens.

We did buy a Jumperoo for DS so that was an unplanned expense. And I bought a few coffees this week.

I rummaged through my closet and found a cute outfit for our anniversary date. Date itself was an expensive dinner, but we had already planned that. My mom babysat for free so it was almost an MM evening out!

[patbutcher]

I kind of blew it with the stairs Reno. I'm back on track now though.

I really want to start bulking up my savings in case we need to have more fertility treatments.

[estrellita]

So far since we restarted ours it's going well. H bought an energy drink yesterday (I told him we have coffee and pop so that wasn't necessary) and paid for parking at my work but that's it. Today we will pick up some burgers and buns to grill at our friend's place and maybe some beer and chips, but hopefully that will be it!

[turtlegirl]

We went out to dinner last night, but my dad paid ;-)

DH is taking DS1 to a triple a baseball game tomorrow. He was going to get free tickets from his parents, but they didn't coordinate well enough before they left on vacation. So since DH already got DS1 hyped up about it we had to buy the tickets.

But overall we've done really well in eating out and that's was put biggest money pit. So hopefully we can keep it up through the summer. Because we need to shift all that money into home projects and getting the nursery ready.