Jan 4-dinner

We ate out of the pantry again. We had:
Pork loin (angel food)
apples,cooked (leftovers)
cabbage (leftovers)
Ranch style beans (leftovers)

Bob got breakfast tacos today and we had them around 10 so I was not hungry for lunch so I saved my salad with grilled shrimp for tuesday lunch. So that will mean we did not eat out mon,tues. Every little savings counts !

Jan 2-Day trip

Today we took a day trip to San Antonio (2 hours away). I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast before we left. When we got there we stopped at a Mexican restaurant and had breakfast tacos . Cost was 14.00 with tip
Then we went to the mall. I spent 12.00 in bath and body works. We could not find my college son the tennis shoes he was looking for so we went to Acadamy. We had budgeted 50.00 for shoes but when we got there found out they were 110.00. I looked quickly online on my cell phone and that was the going price and since he was going back to college we went ahead a got them. Then we went to lunch with friends and payed. The bill was 79.99 but this was all ready in our budget because it was their Christmas gift. We then went to several other stores were I spent a total of 22.00. I did pass up on a lot of things I looked at because I know I need to save and really don't need more junk.
Usually we would have stopped at a fast food restaurant on the drive home but we went ahead and came straight home and heated up leftovers.

So all in all we did better then we have in the past but can work on it still.

Happy New Year

Its the first day of the new year. What goals do I have this year?
Lose 20 pounds by april so that I will enjoy looking at the pictures we take on our cruise.
Tighten up our budget by:
Eating out dinner with the kids 1x a week
Eating lunch in at work at least 3x a week
Not using debit card for eating out when I don't have the cash in my envelope
Not buying any more scrapbooking supplies except for adhesives
Track my coupons.
Get the house in better order so the kids are not embrassed to bring friends over
spend at least 1 night watching tv with wayne even if he changes the channel 500 times

I am off to enjoy the day. see you all tomorrow.

Why ??

Last night I had to go and buy dish soap and a dog food. Why did I let myself get down so low that I had to go to the store on a monday night? Why did I not use coupons that I know I had? The answer, because I have not gotten organized with the holiday. I used the excuse of the holidays to not get what I needed done done when actually I did have time to do it because we had a very low key Christmas. So my goal is to save this year.

I WILL get my coupons back in order and when I see the sale of the product I know I use on a regular basis then I am going to buy 2 or 3 to store so I don't go to the store and spend extra.

Oh by the way, when I ran into the store to get those 2 items I ended up getting a bag of candy that was on sale. Did I need it? No Did my family need it? No. So that should not have been on my list. I will try and avoid impulse items if I stay out of the store and in the end I will save my money.