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Just a heads up, incase you are at all inclined to join, we are doing another no spend month. We did no spend September and I can say with certainty that it was THE BEST month for our family ever. (fun and free!) I got the idea from the NW Edible Life blog. We didn’t actually spend no money. We gave ourselves a $400 budget, and I summarized our spending on this post. We ended up spending $412.49 plus re-occuring monthly costs (dance class, mortgage payment, etc.). It was a great exercise for us, and…
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If you’ve been following along on our no spend (well really low spend) September you might be wondering how we did (if not you can catch up here and here). Well September is over and we outspent the $400 budget we gave ourselves by $12.49. All in all we’re calling the month a success for re-setting our spending and, more importantly, our goals and values. Since I last checked in we only spent money twice: Groceries $11.12 and I bought a month subscription to inLinkz so I could make those little lists at the end of…
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Ah no spend September, I was so sure staying in our $400 budget would be easier than easy! I mean if worse came to worse we have beans and rice. But my putting up got the best of me, and probably it was canning that is going to send us over the edge. Actually the purchase that will put us over the edge is dance shoes. And yes, we did spend $50 on a dance outfit (required by the school) earlier this month. But I thought her shoes had a little more room. They had zero.zero…
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