October Spending Freeze Check-in

[Roc A Bee]

It's been a week since I posted about a spending freeze for October. How did you do your first week?

[ellipses84]

Really great! We decided to stick to $25/week each and we both spent less than $10. I thought it would be hard, especially during the weekend, but we had lots of fun at events that other people hosted. My biggest cutback was not going out to lunch at work. DH does most of the grocery shopping and is trying to meal plan and only buy what we need, so he spent $60 this week (typically $100+) and I've just been avoiding shopping. We have a lot kids bdays this month, but it is budgeted for.

[morningmania]

I did really great last week. Only 1 dinner out @ $5.74 for myself. $50 at Ulta for hair products, which is part of our budget but I bought a makeup brush set for $17.99 that was definitely a want.
We spent about $260 between Costco and the grocery store. YIKES! (still budgeted though)

[Roc A Bee]

My freeze was online purchases only, and I didn't purchase anything online! I even went to Target and and only bought groceries, a bday present, and toiletries.