Day 2: $100 Financial savings Problem (a confession and does this disqualify me from as we speak??)

Okay, confession time…

It’s Day 2 of the $100 Financial savings Problem and I unintentionally didn’t sit up for what as we speak’s problem was — till this morning! Oops!

Phrase to the sensible: all the time plan forward! Extra on that under.

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Day 2 Problem:

No-Spend Day: Problem your self to spend $0 as we speak. No Amazon orders, Starbucks, or random grocery runs. You’ve acquired this! (Save: $5–$15)

Like I stated above, I didn’t plan forward and have a look at as we speak’s task was till this morning. We had deliberate a couple of issues for the day that had been going to price cash, however we modified our plans to comply with the No Spend Day problem.

One of many issues we had been planning on doing was a fast retailer run. We go away for an out-of-town baseball event tomorrow and I had positioned a grocery order to get issues earlier than we left. However then I unintentionally scheduled it to return Wednesday morning as an alternative of this morning. (I assume it labored out since

However we’re operating actually low on groceries, so Jesse was going to do a retailer run to seize eggs, milk, and yogurt. We determined to problem ourselves to simply get artistic with the groceries we now have readily available as an alternative of buying. I’m optimistic that saved us at the least $10 as we speak (in all probability extra, however I’m not going to over-inflate the financial savings).

I’ll share tomorrow what we ended up consuming from the pantry for as we speak — since that’s tomorrow’s challenge (I regarded forward this time!!)

Some Methods We Saved Cash At this time:

• Ate from the pantry as an alternative of operating to the shop.
• Took the youngsters to the free childcare on the fitness center.
• Introduced my very own snacks and water with electrolytes to the fitness center.
• Acquired a free pattern on the fitness center that I had with mandarin oranges I introduced for a snack.
• Stayed dwelling and watched a present with the youngsters as an alternative of going out and doing one thing that would have price cash.

BUT… I did have an enormous oopsie. I had a hair appointment scheduled and I completely forgot till simply two hours earlier than that that didn’t comply with the No Spend Day. I didn’t wish to cancel it simply to be militant about following the No Spend Day rule (particularly as a result of that may mess up the stylist’s day and schedule and there’s a cancellation price!), so I simply went forward with it.

I don’t know if that makes me a No-Spend Day failure??

The aim was to avoid wasting at the least $5-$10 as we speak with the No Spend Problem. I’m going to stay with saying we saved $10 through the use of what we had and consuming from the pantry.

So we’re at $25.25 discovered/saved to date with the problem. How a lot have you ever saved/discovered as far as a part of the problem?

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