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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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July is No Spend Month

June 30, 2009

July is No Spend Month in our house. The premise (borrowed gratefully from Rachel at Small Notebook) is that you pay all your bills, and set a limit on spending for the remainder of your expenses. If you don’t know what you spend in a typical month, try tracking your expenses at Wesabe. You can [...]

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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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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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NO Spend Month

January 12, 2009

The main reason I started this blog is due to the hugely popular response our No Spend Month story garnered. We were featured in USA Today and on The Today Show as the face of families everywhere who are trying to cut back. I first read about the idea in Reader’s Digest (my grandmother’s yearly [...]

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