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02-27-2009, 12:01 PM #1Registered User
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Join me in my "Grocery Bill Happy Dance"
My Feb. Grocery total (food and consumable household supplies as well as Health and beauty aid not including prescription meds. )
Was 50% lower than it was last year at this time. It was also about 20% less than last month. We still had good meals on the table, no one complained of a lack of anything, like "snackage", and I was still able to stock good deals in the freezer/pantry. Both are now quite full.
I'm doing the happy dance!
I hope I can keep this up, The lower grocery bills not the dancing. LOLLast edited by imagine; 02-27-2009 at 12:04 PM. Reason: typo
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02-27-2009, 12:04 PM #2Registered User
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02-27-2009, 12:04 PM #3Master Dollar Stretcher
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Wow!! That is great! Congratulations!! (And you can keep up the dancing for a LITTLE while!)
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02-27-2009, 12:40 PM #4Registered User
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Oh I'm going to keep dancing for a while.
Originally Posted by madhen
I just figured out how much we spent on eating out. Our month average this year so far is $53 dollars a month. Last years average was $104 a month. So another almost 50% decrease! And we switched our eating out focus this year to family meals at the restaurant not at the quick run thru drive thru so it is more of a look forward to event.
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02-27-2009, 12:58 PM #5Registered User
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That is AWESOME...Wife to Keith
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Yay!!! Great job. I am joining in because I cut my grocery, h&b and household from $655 to $450 this month. I really think stockpiling and cooking from scratch and not eating out has helped tremendously. I did go by McDonalds twice for the kids this month. Probably spent $20 all together.
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Yeah! Originally Posted by NewLeaf
Good For you!
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Great job............Lori
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02-27-2009, 08:16 PM #9Registered User
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Congrats to both spenders!
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Congratulations to the grocery winners!!! It CAN be done, even though it's not always easy. Stockpiling and cooking from scratch - great ideas - plus purchasing ingredients (for making a large variety of foods), rather than highly-processed foods, is also a good place to focus. So far (2 adults) I've spent $274.15 of my budgeted $400 for the YEAR-to-date.
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WooHoo!!!
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Great job, imagine!!!
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Woo hoo
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Way to go! I know you worked really hard to achieve this, isn't the payoff nice?
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Woo hoo!!!! Way to go girl!!
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