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Grocery spending update

March 10th, 2008 at 09:12 pm

Things are looking up with our grocery budget. In mid-February we had used nearly 3/4 of our Feb. 16-29 budget before the 16th. We've been trying to cut back, buying no extras, planning some frugal meals and switching to juice from concentrate. We even found some plastic pitchers on our condo's "free table" and started washing and reusing other juice bottles.

As of today, we've used about 1/3 of our March 16-31 budget, and we have all our groceries for meals through the 16th, so except for some household incidentals we shouldn't have to spend anymore. That means we've caught up a great deal from same time last month. If we can make it through March 16-31 with only 2/3 our usual allotted money, we'll be totally caught up by April 1!

But even if it takes a little longer than that, I'm just glad we're starting to get back on track. It's usually not a problem borrowing from the next pay period's grocery money, since I have some padding in the bank for future bills. But occasionally, when a lot of big payments hit at once, it has caused us to skate pretty close to overdrawing our account. If we can straighten this out, there will be virtually no danger of that anymore.

I'd love to eventually have a surplus of grocery money that we carry forward each month, so if we have a party or some unusual household expenses, we can easily cover that without messing anything else up.

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