The end of the first month!!!

Wow! I can't believe thirty-0ne days have gone by already! I'm still going strong in my challenge. I have yet to add up all my grocery purchases to see what I spent in that area. I will reassess and see if I can save even more in that area in the month of February!! I have stuck to my weekly allowance and went over by $120. I used my credit card twice for a purchase at Target-$35 and See's candy-$25. I purchased all my gas on my credit card. Food and eating out are really my only two categories I have!!!

I managed to not buy clothes, books(the one I approved got cancelled because the seller didn't really have it!!!), music or clothes for my daughter! I didn't bring home one plastic bag(exception being the 8 produce bags I didn't count-I'll work on that one!). I only drank 4 cokes and I'm guessing I would have drank at least 15 if not more so that was good! I went to the gym probably 10 times. Another number I'll work on.

So overall, I think I did really well this month and I'm sooo proud of my accomplishments! Tracking my money has been very beneficial and it gives me a base to work on for February. I hope my receipt envelope is a bit skinnier!!

I'm not sure how this post will come out as I'm typing on my iPhone because I'm at the snow with my kids and the Internet is down! I wanted to get this in on the last day of the month!

Here's to an even better February!! I hope I'm encoraging some of you to stop buying and living life without materialism being the center!!
Victoria