What do you do with grocery savings?

**Mamaw** · 06-29-2005, 01:09 PM

If you budget a specific amount for groceries for the month but find at the end of the month you have some left over, what do you do with it?

I can not decide if I should put the excess on cc debt or if I should increase my stockpile of items for the winter months coming along. I am afraid that in my "quest" to become more frugal buying food that the stockpile will dwindle too low.

What do you all do???

**bridge** · 06-29-2005, 01:12 PM

I would put it towards debt. In MOP it is "found" money that you would have spent on things anyway.
Since you have a grocery budget you shouldn't run into having problems later with the groceries just keep with the budget!!

**mom2matty** · 06-29-2005, 01:40 PM

I normally don't have anything left but if I do I put it to the side and on the months that there are really good sales and I can stock up.......I have that little extra to do so!!

**Emerald_Mommy** · 06-29-2005, 03:14 PM

Usually I just put it toward the next month's grocery budget, since we don't have cc debt. We have been known to eat out on it though

**Michele Annette** · 06-29-2005, 03:44 PM

I put all the extra money from my grocery budget toward paying off my debt.

**favesis37** · 06-30-2005, 09:00 AM

i have started putting it towards debt, before i came back here i would spend it, on what ever i wanted.

**QuilterMom** · 06-30-2005, 10:46 AM

If I didn't have a good stockpile, that would be my first priority. I believe in having a good stockpile in the event of income loss, natural disaster, bad weather, etc. After my stockpile was built up, I would put it toward debt.