no spend month

green your laundry routine

July 28, 2009

Being green isn’t always easy, but it has benefits. It’s good for you, good for the Earth, and good for your wallet. But there is one way that is often overlooked that can save you big bucks!

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no spend month update: fail whale edition

July 27, 2009

Final update from my No Spend Month. We went overbudget!

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No Spend Month Update Week #2

July 15, 2009

Update on week 2 of our No Spend Month.

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No Spend Month Week 1 Update

July 9, 2009

It’s been a week since we started our No Spend Month, prepare yourself for a cringe-inducing update on our spending so far. We’ve spent a total of: $362.37 Ouch! Here’s how it breaks down. Gas: $39.32 Groceries: $109.72 (includes paper products) Pets: $54 (does NOT include $109 vet visit to prep puppy for neuter later [...]

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decrease your expenses: how we saved $17,000

March 9, 2009

photo credit: TheTruthAbout… Previously I talked about gathering all your financial info so you know where you are starting. I call this digging your head out of the sand. When I started digging my head out of the sand the first thing I did was wrote down everything we spend money on in a typical [...]

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No Spend Month Update: Final Totals

February 3, 2009

We’ve reached the end of our 2nd No Spend Month, and I’ve been putting off adding up the final totals knowing the totals weren’t going to be pretty.

We went WAY over where I wanted to be. Clearly the spending diet worked against us this month.

I’ll just get it out of the way, our total spending was $1,764.41. Ouch. Ha, I should call it the Spend Way Too Much Month.

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rate increases hit home

January 20, 2009

From all the hubbub I’ve read in the news lately about credit cards being closed, rates skyrocketing, and limits being cut, we have yet to be affected by any of these issues until today. I received a small pamphlet in the mail from Chase that looked like a privacy disclosure and was written in credit [...]

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No Spend Month Update

January 18, 2009

We’re over halfway through out no spend month, so here’s an update. We have gone over the $600 mark, as of today our total is $897.82. The new goal is to stay under $1,100. (I know we have 2 expenses left for the month, plus gas and anything else that comes up) We have 12 [...]

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NO Spend Month (1/1/09-1/31/09)

January 13, 2009

One of the reasons I started blogging was the success over at Wesabe of my No Spend Month thread. It’s not an original idea. I found an article in Reader’s Digest about it. I found blog posts about other people who have done a No Spend Month. My favorite example is over at Small Notebook [...]

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TCL featured on Wesabe’s blog!

January 13, 2009

Our No Spend Month was previously featured on Wesabe’s blog, including 7 tips from the experts. The Dec 10th post includes 5 lessons I learned from our No Spend Month. Here they are: 1. Competition breeds success.
 It was fun to try to spend less than my husband on unnecessary expenses. It made the challenge [...]

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