Week #5 On One Hundred Dollars A Month

Week 5 of 52 On $100 A Month

I Spent $10 on a $21 groupon gift certificate to Fat Burger…
Remember the $15 in Fat Burger gift cards the Handsome Husband won at the Christmas Party… Well I figured his winnings plus the $21 groupon ($36 total) would make for a nice family restaurant meal at some point this year… After all… when you are living on a tight grocery budget it pays to plan ahead…

Target… .26 cents

See’s Candy .20 cents

$1.00

.34 cents

$3.98

$0

I had done all of the shopping above by Sunday evening…

And that left me with $4.26, $9 in Rite Aid Up Rewards and a $2.69 Albertson’s gift card for the rest of the week…

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Wednesday was the start of 7 days of double coupons at Albertson’s.

$1.66
We now have plenty of chips, salsa, guacamole, and hummus for the Super Bowl party…
Oh and Propel… it looks like we’ll be drinking Propel.

.37 cents

See… I do buy normal food too…
Who can complain about whole wheat pasta, tuna, yogurt,and soup?

$2.05
I probably should of held off paying .50 cents each for package of cheese slices… but we go thru quite a bit of grilled cheese sandwich’s around here. The best part of this grouping was the dipping chocolate I scored…

.83 cents….

By Wednesday evening I was down to $1.54 in cash,
.18 cents on the Albertson’s card and $4 in Rite Aid Up Rewards.

And my last purchase of the week…
.22cents

I finished out the week with $1.41 in cash, $4 in Up Rewards and .09 cents left on the gift card… I’d say I did pretty well this week. I only spent $21.66

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One other thing…

If you’re wondering what I’m doing with the excess grocery money each week from my extravagant $23.07 weekly allotment…

Week #1 $4.25
Week #2 $3.42
Week#3 2.23
Week #4 .11 cents
Week#5 $1.41

I’m saving up… although I’m not exactly sure what for… I’m thinking either a fancy dinner (with the help of my restaurant.com gift certificates) or 4 big fat juicy steaks…

But rest assured…
Mr. Piggy is keeping it safe for now.