No-spend Challenge:
Main Point: To reduce the random spending we do and have a larger chunk to pay on the credit card.
1. No fast food/eating out!
2. Bills don't count
3. Fixing/inspecting the cars doesn't count
I don't know what else there could be, but I'm sure I'll need to edit/add to this throughout the month.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Pantry Challenge rules
I need to get moving on these challenge rules or I'm just going to be making them up as I go along. Here goes:
Pantry Challenge:
Main point: to not spend money on groceries for the month of August.
1. Veggies that come in the CSA box each week are certainly allowed.
2. Fresh fruit purchases are allowed.
3. A few meat purchases are allowed, if I have gone through what we have here.
4. I can use the bread coupons I have, since it's not spending money.
5. I can pick up one or two items to try a new recipe.
I'm allowing fresh fruit/veggie purchases because I've been really trying to push to have us eating more of them and it's not something I can stock up on. The CSA membership has been great for this! The other point of this is to expand the "regular" foods we eat, so picking up a few items to use a bunch of pantry items is still working toward the goal.
We have the first thing that's going to mess up the no-spend/pantry challenge. My mom is giving Ronan one week at summer camp for his birthday and the week he's going is this coming week (Aug 3-7.) I'm going to need to pack him a lunch and I did not buy lunch materials on my grocery trip. I'm not sure what we'll do.. I may have to make an exception to buy juice boxes and a few other things.
Pantry Challenge:
Main point: to not spend money on groceries for the month of August.
1. Veggies that come in the CSA box each week are certainly allowed.
2. Fresh fruit purchases are allowed.
3. A few meat purchases are allowed, if I have gone through what we have here.
4. I can use the bread coupons I have, since it's not spending money.
5. I can pick up one or two items to try a new recipe.
I'm allowing fresh fruit/veggie purchases because I've been really trying to push to have us eating more of them and it's not something I can stock up on. The CSA membership has been great for this! The other point of this is to expand the "regular" foods we eat, so picking up a few items to use a bunch of pantry items is still working toward the goal.
We have the first thing that's going to mess up the no-spend/pantry challenge. My mom is giving Ronan one week at summer camp for his birthday and the week he's going is this coming week (Aug 3-7.) I'm going to need to pack him a lunch and I did not buy lunch materials on my grocery trip. I'm not sure what we'll do.. I may have to make an exception to buy juice boxes and a few other things.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Starting off on the right foot.. or maybe the left?
Is it considered cheating if one goes out and does a big grocery shopping trip right before starting a pantry challenge? Because if it is.. well.. I cheated. I'm starting the month with a mini-challenge and some basics were necessary. My mini-challenge is that my friend Alle and her 3 kids (ages 7, 3 and 1) will be staying with us Sunday-Tuesday. I get to pantry challenge feeding 4 extra people too! Woot!
As August 1st nears I'm starting to feel the pressure to get things together. I need a list of everything in the pantry so I know what I'm working with. I need to spend money on necessary things, although at the same time I know that if they don't get done we'll spend the money on them anyways. I need to create our rules so I know when we break them.. or maybe we don't know rules so we can bend as we need to.
As August 1st nears I'm starting to feel the pressure to get things together. I need a list of everything in the pantry so I know what I'm working with. I need to spend money on necessary things, although at the same time I know that if they don't get done we'll spend the money on them anyways. I need to create our rules so I know when we break them.. or maybe we don't know rules so we can bend as we need to.
What to say in a first post?
I should introduce you to my family, say something about myself, something about what I plan to write about.. but I'm not. I really don't feel like doing all that, so instead I'll just jump right in.
Pete and I are going to do a no-spend/pantry challenge for the month of August. This just so happens to coincide with the 30 Days of Blank blog challenge, so here's my attempt. With a 2 month old I don't know that I'll manage to post every day, but I promise to try.
What will I post? No idea. Maybe I'll whine about not spending. Maybe I'll confess to spending. Maybe I'll post recipes. Maybe I'll start babbling on about our first attempts at homeschooling. I'm just going to post something every. single. day. Hey, if you're lucky maybe you'll even get pictures.
Pete and I are going to do a no-spend/pantry challenge for the month of August. This just so happens to coincide with the 30 Days of Blank blog challenge, so here's my attempt. With a 2 month old I don't know that I'll manage to post every day, but I promise to try.
What will I post? No idea. Maybe I'll whine about not spending. Maybe I'll confess to spending. Maybe I'll post recipes. Maybe I'll start babbling on about our first attempts at homeschooling. I'm just going to post something every. single. day. Hey, if you're lucky maybe you'll even get pictures.
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