{"id":1807,"date":"2014-01-27T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2014-01-26T18:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:39:57","slug":"no-spend-challenge-and-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"No Spend Challenge and Shopping."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfdozendaily.typepad.com\/.a\/6a016300f919ba970d01a3faf99422970b-pi\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1387815241946.7734\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/halfdozendaily.typepad.com\/.a\/6a016300f919ba970d01a3faf99422970b-500wi\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my goals for this challenge was to reduce our Grocery spending to $400 for the month with\u00a0 the remaining $200 set aside for Cheerleading competitions.<em>\u00a0 <\/em>This is one area that we are doing excellent with. One of the reason is my winter cleaning has left our pantry much more organized and we also developed a list of items we have and need to use up.<\/p>\n<p>I did realize that we were running really low on fresh veggies to use this week. We decided to\u00a0 make several shopping stops today.\u00a0 First up was a quick trip to CVS. I purchased 2 tubes of toothpaste, 2 2L of Diet Coke and a candy bar. I ended up paying a total of $1.55 of which $0.60 was tax. I received back 4 ECB. Next, was a stop at Aldi, total spent was $14.88 and finally Walmart. I purchased a baby gift and spent 1.71 for a bunch of celery. We check the celery at Aldi but it was limp and Lily wanted celery and peanut butter one day for lunch.\u00a0\u00a0 Our grocery total is $298.63 for the month!<\/p>\n<p>I have a chance to order some items from Pampered Chef this week so I am going to use $100 from the left over grocery budget to pay for these items that are all going to be used for cooking.<\/p>\n<p>This goal is MET!!!!!! So far for the challenge I am 2\/5. By the end of the week, I hope to achieve 3\/5!! This is huge for me as the challenge goals were set prior to planning of our trip!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my goals for this challenge was to reduce our Grocery spending to $400 for the month with\u00a0 the remaining $200 set aside for Cheerleading competitions.\u00a0 This is one area that we are doing excellent with. 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