Friday, October 22, 2010

Financial Friday - Our October Cut Backs, Week 3

Here's how we came out this week:

1/2) Lights & Electricity Off:

3) No Food or Fun:
Wednesday 10/20 - $16.58 We ate at Freebirds (I was NOT impressed)

4) Cut Groceries:
Sunday 10/17 - $5.32 (Bread, Chips & Coke)
Monday 10/18 - $1.58 (See HERE)
Tuesday 10/19 - $1.98 (Chips)
Wednesday 10/20 - $6.02 (Coke & Ice Cream)
Thursday 10/21 - $8.68 (Chips & 17 lbs of extremely discounted bananers! I made ice cream, banana chips, banana pancakes, etc. out of all 17 lbs)

5) Cut Laundry Loads:
Friday 10/15 - 1 load of darks
Sunday 10/17 - 1 load of whites

6) $100 Extra Monthly Income:
Friday 10/15 - $117.50 (Craigslist)
Sunday 10/17 - $3.00 (Craigslist)

So we ate all all our "chip" items to go with our sandwich for lunch. We had some pretzels left, but Brian refused to eat them. So I bought him some chips for his lunch this week.

WEEK 3 TOTALS:
Food/Fun - $16.58
Groceries - $23.58
Extra Income - $120.50

October TOTALS so far: (totals from last week)
Food/Fun - $23.98
Groceries - $36.05 (most of this is from coke - ugh!)
Extra Income - $183.65 (WAY over our goal ALREADY!)

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