Happy New Year!

Happy New Year folks!

I had a fabulous New Years Eve with friends and played games and celebrated until 1am!

My spending kicked in first thing yesterday morning YIKES!!  

In my defense, I am booking things for a trip to Hawaii in February so I don't really feel all that guilty.

My spending continued today however and I do feel just a tiny bit guilty about those purchases as not everything was 100% needed.  

My two day spending total is...…….

$2086

Again, a few high ticket items in there due to my Hawaii trip.

Hillary

YIKES!  my last post was nearly FIVE years ago!  Well, with a New Year and a New Decade right around the corner...my goal  Blog my daily spending.....Daily!

My first post for accountability will be New Years Day!

Stay tuned!

Hillary

Purse Splurge

Last week I went out to lunch with my Mom and after we decided to go to DSW Shoes.  I'm proud to say I did not find any shoes that caught my fancy, however I DID have my eyes on a very cute summer purse.  I left the store that day WITHOUT the purse and told my self if I was still thinking about it in a week, I'd go back to get it.

Well, a week later it was still on my mind......A LOT!  So I headed back to the store yesterday and they had ONE left, so I grabbed it and checked out!  I'm excited to use it and I don't regret my purchase on e bit!
Hillary

Spending Splurges

Recently I took my kids to Disneyland in California and lets just say spending was high!  I purposely took $2500 in cash and NO CREDIT CARD.  Hubby and I had done our budget and found that $2500 was my max spending limit for everything!  Although this did not include our Disney tickets our travel expenses as we had pre-saved specifically for that and paid all that in advance of our departure.

After eating out for three meals a day for 5 days and allowing each of my four children to get a souvenir I came home with $375 left from our $2500 budget.  I used the remaining $375 to purchase a months worth of groceries the day after our return.

Complete failure!!

Where to begin??  Yesterday was a complete disaster!! 

In adition to the shoe purchase I headed to Target while my girls were at dance rehearsal.  I only needed laundry detergent and allergy eye drops for my daughter.  I came away with laundry detergent, two storage containers, 2 packs of Soft Lip lip balm, the eye drops, 3 magazines and a package of beef jerky.

The lip balm is my favorite and I use it many times a day.  My down fall was the two new flavors that have come out....mint and rasberry.   Could I have done without them...yes.  Result Impulse buy!

The storage crates I have been thinking about getting.  One for scrapbbok supplies, the other to house our Wii games.  Did I need to buy them yesterday....no...Result Impulse buy!!

The magazines I'll just admit right now I have an addiction to cooking magazines.  Could I have done without them...absolutley...Result Impulse buy!!

The Beef Jerky......I'm PMS and craving salt and was hungry.  Result Impulse buy!!

Total spending $86.07

Total impulse spending $52.59

Hillary

More shoes

Ugh, I thought I was doing so well.  No spending yesrterday at all and then today I dropped $83.33 on shoes for myself.  I bought 4 pair, only one of which I truly needed.  A pair of tennis shoes since mine are split down the side.  The other 3 are just cute spring shoes I couldn't pass up.  Oh, I tried.  I ignored their call to me from the shelf.  I wasn't going to try them on, but in the end my will power was defeated.  I'm a shoe addict aswell, I guess I should just admit that along with my admition to being a shopaholic.

Ugh, tomorrow I'll try no spending again!!

Todays spending total $83.33
Todays Impulse spending $83.33

Hillary

New Shoes

Today I had to take my girls to get new shoes for a dance recital they will be in on January 9th.  Their dance instructor wants all the girls in black converse or similar shoe. 

My girls each have converse...one has brown with rainbow dots, the other has sparkly rainbow covered with black lace.  Neither of these was acceptable by their instructor.

So we headed out in the rain today to get the shoes.  Of course we could not find black in either of their sizes.  Seems the way when I really need something.  After traveling to 4 different stores we settled on black Vans...similar to the converse style but no white toe. 

By the time we finally made our purchase, it was well past lunch time.  All the girls were complaining of being hungry so we stopped at Taco Bell to grab a bite to eat.

I know I had no choice in buying the shoes, but looking back on the decision to go out to eat.......we should have come home instead.  That was an impulse decision.

Today's spending total $89.63
Today's Impulse spending total $19.89