My No Shopping Year - May

Posted May 26th, 2017

Not much new happening here in regard to no shopping, shopping or otherwise. More of the same. My husband is getting more work so that is great and we are on track with our new budget and plan to pay off the mortgage ASAP. We did buy a second hand couch - $600 - because ours fell off the back of the ute when we moved and we were therefore rendered couch less! We looked around and eventually found a great one on Gumtree in the next town from us that had only been used in a holiday house. Perfect. One small success I have had during May is with groceries - my budget is $100/ week but I have spent less than that. $295 for the month - I have been trying for years to get our groceries down to $300/month but could never quite manage it - could this be the turning point? Have I finally cracked it? I do not know but I sure hope so - I do my best to make everything from scratch, shop only every 10 days and buy only what we need. Living in a small country town with no shops helps - I used to live 5 minutes walk from a large shopping centre so would inevitably drop in for milk and come out with 6 other things I "needed"! Can't do that here so I have to be organised with my lists on shopping day and buy everything we need until my next trip. All up, money not spent in May was $1219. $6220 for the year so far.

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