Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As January comes to a close, Steady Eddie and I feel like a runner must feel when crossing the finish line after a long, hard race: tired, extraordinarly glad it’s over, and a little bit unsure of what we just did. WE DID IT (almost)! As of last weekend, we had spent $288.15 on groceries [...]
Posted in Grocery Expenditures on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hoo boy. As January begins to draw to a close, our grocery money allotment gets smaller and smaller. Since last tabulation of our total, we have spent right at $90.00 on groceries. This brings our total expenditures for the month up to $288.15. I cannot tell you how badly I want this to work out–I [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures, In the Kitchen on January 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
For last week’s Super Savings Saturday carnival hosted by Crystal at Money Saving Mom, I asked the questions How does your family work as a team to reduce your expenditures? and How do those of you who are on tight grocery budgets work bargains into your budget? Okie Dokie, who blogs at Saving $$ in Johnson County [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on January 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
No, I’m not writing a tribute to Andy Warhol, but I am singing the praises of my sweet, wonderful husband who has really gotten into this coupon-clipping, penny-pinching grocery store shopping game in a BIG way. Thanks to his resourcefulness (and his daily checking of message boards like Slick Deals and, of course, Money Saving Mom), we managed [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on January 17, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Last week, we ended up buying our groceries on Saturday night. While grocery shopping does not top my list of fun things to do on a Saturday night, that’s the way things happened around our house last week. We hit Aldi first, and then we hit Wal-Mart to buy the things we couldn’t buy at Aldi. While [...]
Posted in Grocery Expenditures on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have made approximately nine trips to various grocery stores in the past week, mostly in the name of bargain-hunting. If there is a downside to reducing spending, that is it: we must trek around to various stores to find the best prices. Of course, we would always just go to Wal-Mart and just comp-ad [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures, In the Kitchen on January 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I started tracking our grocery expenditures here on my blog at the beginning of December. I fell off the wagon about a week before Christmas. I was attempting to spend no more than $200 for the entire month on groceries; however, for some reason, I never think Christmas is going to cost as much [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on December 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We made a little grocery run tonight after church to pick up a few things we were totally out of. I also took advantage of a local grocery store’s sale on Philadelphia cream cheese for 79 cents by comp-adding (ading?) it at Wal-Mart. We spent $24.33 at Wal-Mart, which brings us to a total of [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on December 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Between last night and today, we have managed to shop at five different stores for groceries. This includes hitting both Walgreen’s and Target for their bargains, as well as Aldi and Wal-Mart for regular grocery shopping. These five trips have cost a total of $74.39 together, which brings our monthly total to $136.35. I really [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Steady Eddie and I attended our church’s Christmas banquet last night, and we took advantage of the few child-free hours to do a little bagain hunting at CVS. We purchased $5.40 worth of grocery items there, and then we headed over to Target to stock up on Steady Eddie’s favorite cereal. We spent $5.67 there [...]
