Personal Care
Mike haircut. $14. Great Clips
Toothpaste (2) $2.50 Dollar Tree
Total $16.50
Monthly under by $13.50
Household
Queen Sheets and 4 pillowcases. $75 (about 1/2 the original price) JC Penney Replacing 20 year old set
Disposable pans. $1.25. Dollar Tree
Total. $76.25
Monthly over by $46.25
YTD
Household. $48.45
Personal Care. $67.90 under
Allocation: $403
Cushion: $839.00
YTD: 178 days
Total: $1227.00
Grocery: $868.26
Eating Out: $358.74
What We Ate: chicken, stuffing, green beans and white gravy with fresh cherries and grapes ; Grilled garlic shrimp, roasted carrots, cheesy potatoes; Fresh tomato sandwiches and snack items; Jambalaya, yellow beans, Amish coleslaw; Meatballs, pasta, fried zucchini and cucumber and onion salad; Grilled ham and Swiss sandwiches and fried potatoes with onion; Lentils with split pea Dahl over rice, applesauce, cottage cheese with onion; Korean beef and veggies, fried green beans, cucumber and onion salad; Spanokopita casserole, corn on the cob, leaf lettuce salad, garlic cheese bread; Rigatoni, green beans, salad with maple cherry vinaigrette; Rigatoni, salad, garlic bread; Chicken and stuffing, cucumber salad, Lima beans; Chicken pot pie, cheesy potatoes, tossed salad with maple cherry vinaigrette; Leftover smorgasbord (2);
What We Bought:
Produce stand: zucchini (2), cucumbers (2), yellow beans $5
Sanders: London broil steak (2#), bananas (5#), potatoes (5#) $11.85
Price rite: butter (6), corn (2), $18.98
Aldi: Mushrooms, baking soda, Pam, pretzels,Roma tomatoes (2), leaf lettuce, English muffins, cucumber, bagels, sourdough bread, raisin cinnamon bread,eggs, penne pasta $22.04
Trader Joe: chicken gyoza, frozen spinach,king pal chicken, orange chicken, sweet potato fries, artichoke timbales, feta (3), spanakopita, cheddar (2), Asiago, manchego, garbanzo beans (2), pasta (2), almonds (2), cashews, peanuts (2), eggs (4) $96.53
Aldi: pasta (2), danish $5.41
Price Rite: cornstarch $2.29
Two Week Total: $152.10 Our yearly trip to Trader Joe brought it up quite a bit.
Eating Out:
Mike lunch in Cleveland. $8.07. Taco Bell
Greek festival. $33
Asian food as a birthday celebration. $36.99
Two Week Total: $77.96. Birthday fun brought it up.
Remaining Allocation: $172.94
Cushion: $839
YTD: 193 days
Total: $1457.06
Grocery: $1020.36
Eating Out: $463.70
Linus Blankets 15
Gratitude Scarves. 37
Pet blankets. 1
Chemo caps 13
A personal afghan for the house
27 skeins of yarn for free from the Linus Project
3 skeins free from my buy nothing group
3 skeins. $1.20. Amvets thrift store. 40 cents/ skein
YTD
Pet blankets 6
Chemo caps 17
Linus blankets 41
Gratitude scarves 50
274 skeins donated
11 skeins $7.18 $0.65/ skein
1. Because I haven’t ordered in awhile, I received a $20 coupon from Chewy. I used it and ordered $3 more to get free shipping. We are now set for wet food for awhile at a nice discount.
2. Mike and I did a salvage shop. We bought coffee at $2.99 a bag, dry beans at 50 cents a pound, flour at 50cents for five pounds, whole wheat flour at 89 cents for five pounds, tortillas at 50 cents, mayo for fifty cents and better than bouillon at $1 a jar, to name a few of the best bargains.
3. After our 20plus year old set bit the dust, we read an article rating sheets for price, quality and value. Then we bought a new set of sheets on sale and used an additional 20%off one day coupon to make the price less scary. The two strategies ended up saving us 50% off the original price.
4. I bought 2#of thin sliced top round steak at 30% off, $6 /#. That will make three meals for us with leftovers for lunch. I see fajitas, Asian beef and a Philly cheesesteak in our future.
Frugal Fail: Usually I bake our bread products. With the temperature as high as it has been, I got lazy and went to Aldi. I walked out with two loaves of bread, English muffins and bagels. My wallet took a $9.84 hit! I could have made them for about $2.00. A definite fail.
Remaining Allocation $221.45
Cushion $766.85
YTD 163 days
Total $1077.70
Grocery $759.61
Eating Out $318.09
What WeAte: BBQ ribs, garlic rice, coleslaw, green beans; Homemade mushroom soup and tossed salad a la Miami U; Taco salad, refried beans, tortilla chips; Beef and bean nachos; Baked ziti, Italian carrots, garlic bread; Smoked sausage, baked beans, baked potato; Creamy artichoke pasta, garlic chicken, peaches; Eggplant and potato gratin, butter beans, Greek fried cheese, tomato salad; Creamy Tuscan chicken with orzo pasta, grapes, fried zucchini; Baked Asian tofu with pad Thai noodles and edamame; Grilled tuna and cheese on rye with popcorn; Taco soup and Mexican pot pie ,salsa and chips;
What We Bought:
Price Rite: thyme, boneless top round (2#), romaine, potatoes (5#), red pepper, sour cream. $22.02
Aldi: Eggs (2), tomatoes (2), dry minced onion (2), onion powder, onions (3#). $9.74
Price Rite: coffee, tuna (4), crunch and munch (3), grapes, boneless chicken breast (12.5#), cottage cheese, cheese (6#), frozen peas (2), frozen spinach (2) $52.49
Aldi: bagels, Italian bread, cinnamon raisin bread, English muffins, cantaloupe $11.83
Aldi : Crackers (2), peanut butter, danish $9.08
Produce Stand: zucchini, tomatoes $3
Aldi: cantaloupe, applesauce, sweet cherries $10.49
Two week total: $108.65
Eating Out:
$4.12. Coffee with Gannon retirees
$20.77 Wings and appetizers camping
$11.99 Pizza camping
$13.77 Aunt Cookies sub
Two week total: $40.65
Remaining allocation: $72.15 New Cushion: $839.00
We had a lot of treats these last few weeks but we stayed in budget so I am calling it good.
YTD: 178 days
Total: $1227.00 $7/day $3.50/person/day
Grocery: $868.26 $4.87/day $2.44/person/day
Eating Out: $358.74 $2.01/day $1/person/day
