In light of the confusion last month with all the hecticness going on in my life, i have decided to try out the cash envelope method for groceries/hba/etc.this month I may add eating out into that also. I am trying to determine how much to allow myself a week. I am thinking that perhaps with the past few months my oop has been 250 to 350, but my oop has also been as low as 125, just depending on the money we have available and the sales that are going on at the time.

We are are tight...

I have not had much time to update my blog. what started out last week as kmart superdoubles and running around doing deals transformed then my dh was in a lot of pain and missing work and he just had surgery today on his neck. Did i mention ds and dn is having their bday party on saturday at my house. Not sure if i will get this month updated until next week but there are some awesome deals i came across at kmart and cvs...

Food/hh/eating out: 222.26/150 116.99=389.25
Savings: 330.41=607.82
Gifts: 383.01/71.91
Savings: 169.00
Clothes/haircut: 101.91
Savings:213.80
Entertainment: 2/25
Savings: 13.50

May 2:

Aldi's: 8.42

Target:
OOP: 8.73
Savings: 22.40

May 3:

Target:
OOP: 9.05
Savings: 48.47

newspaper: 4.00

May 4:

Target:

OOP: 0...

Food/hh/eating out: 355.10/150
Savings: 887.30
Gifts: 11.67/71.91
Savings: 59.25
Clothes/haircut: 58.40
Savings:91.00
Entertainment: 36.41/25
Savings: 1.00

April 22:

kohl's:
2 shirts for ds, socks for dh. used 10/10

OOP: 3.07
Savings 33.00

Hyvee: 10.54
Savings: 7.75

CVS: OOP .16
Savings 10.48

kmart:

OOP 8.96
Savings: 45.91
...

With all the holiday hussle and bustle and getting ready for India, my last week of december is incomplete, and i am not sure if i will be able to complete it, so I am restarting tracking my shopping savings starting feb 1st, since we were gone for the bulk of January.

Money is pretty tight at the moment, so i don't expect to do too much shopping this next week, especially on non-essential items like h&b as i am pretty well stocked for the time being. I going to focus primarily...