Week 1 grocery breakdown (all shopping done by DH):
55.84 ****ing energy drinks
16.58 wine
7.37 household
52.71 food
Total =132.60
Yep, he spent more on energy drinks than actual food. Hopefully they last him all month, we had a conversation about it after he bought them. He is also really good at finding deals so the food would have cost more if it had been regular price. But still, ****.
My non-grocery shopping so far has been $1 (coffee out of the machine when I had to stay late at work)
Week 2: I did some of the shopping as well this week, here is our breakdown
21.65 drinks for DH (some of this is regular soda instead of the more expensive energy drinks, we are working on it)
35.89 diapers/wipes
2.32 household
92.40 food
Total =152.26 (yeah I don't think we'll make it under $400 for the month unless DH commits to no more spending except maybe milk, we totally could live on what is already in the house, but I just don't think it's gonna happen)
My discretionary spending for week 2 was about $4 (2 more work coffees at $1 each, my coffee maker at home was too scaled up to make very much, cleaned it with some vinegar so I can make extra to take to work) the rest was sales tax on a gift for my son that I bought with an old Toys R Us gift card that I wanted to use before they go out of business
On a bad note I had to throw out some baking supplies because moths got into them, so I need to check out the local thrift stores for some airtight containers.
During week 3 we spent 98.30 total
38.91 food
17.79 diapers
17.64 alcohol
15.08 energy drink/soda for DH
8.88 household
Zero discretionary spending for me!!!!
"Week 4" actually contained ten days, but it was still bad bad bad, total was 284.02
Here goes:
114.44 food
117.71 alcohol (I didn't subtract the amount of a mail-in rebate because they take so long to get)
20.43 baby diapers and formula
24.24 DH drinks
7.20 household
My discretionary spending was $6 for some second hand shirts for my son
Our month totals were
298.46 food, not bad, there were a few things that I wouldn't have bought but this is ok
151.93 alcohol (DH buys things when they are on sale, we could probably skip a couple months now)
116.81 DH drinks, half of this was before I talked to him about it, maybe next month will be better
74.11 baby supplies (baby is drinking more formula now, so this might increase for the next few months)
25.77 household (mostly newspapers)
Total = 667.08
Without energy drinks and alcohol we would have been within my $400 goal
Total spending: 3034
2357 bills
667 groceries
$10 my spending
Did not track DH non grocery spending
We still came in under February's number because we didn't have a medical bill or car insurance this month
How did everyone else do?