I had mentioned previously that my sweet nephew had been in the hospital so we got to enjoy his siblings for a couple days. They went home the night of the 10th so I did not have my normal payday shopping day. Then on Saturday we were at the Church all day helping prepare for [...]
I hadn’t planned on doing any shopping this week since I nearly reached my budget the first time out this payday. However I didn’t write up a menu plan because I had been ill over the weekend and our week was kind of busy. I did manage to stick to our menu plan categories pretty [...]
During the first payday of the month I managed to just barely stay under budget. The 13th began a new payday giving me $200 for the next 2 weeks.
First I went to Kroger to stock up on a few items and get some meat. I used the rest of my tide coupons, picked up several [...]
During the first week of this payday I spent a total of $153.94 leaving $46.06 in my budget, since I knew I would be starting to do some stocking up I thought I might possibly go over budget.
I did two different transactions at Kroger so I could use more than 4 Tide coupons. There were [...]
This was my first shopping trip of the year. I still didn’t have any coupons but I was pretty sure I could stay within my budget. I started out with $200, that is our budget for 2 weeks. This is for a family of 4 (are daughters are 13 and 16) and you can read [...]

