More on gas than groceries anyone????

**TheRootedNomad** · 05-02-2008, 10:11 AM

In April Dh and I spent more on gas than groceries. We don't waste gas by running around willy nilly. Dh drives to work and back 3 weeks out of 4 (the 4th he has a comp. truck) He works about an 8 minute drive away. We do soccer practice 2 nights a week and games on Sat. I drive to work and do stores runs and mom visits about once maybe twice a week bundled together. Mom lives 5 minutes away and I work about 25 minutes away. The stores I hit are all on the way somewhere. Anyone else spending more on gas than groceries???

**hmcart** · 05-02-2008, 10:14 AM

I think we are spending as much if not more on gas. DH and I both commute 30-40 miles one way so gas is taking a lot out of our budget nowadays.

**many houseapes** · 05-02-2008, 10:14 AM

Not yet- we have a gas hog & pay $260 a month for gas compared to $500 for groceries. But if the price for gas keeps going up, who knows.Yikes!

**DaisySue** · 05-02-2008, 10:15 AM

I work in town but my dd goes to school 20 minutes away, oldest dd also lives in this town so I am there at least once a week. Then son and wife and twins who I help babysit are about 30 min away and last week I went there 3 times. I am using about $40 in gas per week. That is awful for working in town, but not seeing the babies is NOT an option!

Last week I only spent about $40 on HBA and groceries. It was pretty slim pickings around here but one night we had Casey's pizza cause we save the coupons from them and when you collect 10 you get a free large pizza. I was rooting around in the drawer and was amazed! I had 10! So that was supper that night!

**sunshine** · 05-02-2008, 10:16 AM

We do -- but we have for quite a while. We eat very simply, garden, hunt, forage for a lot of our foods -- AND I work over an hour's drive away from home.

**della92** · 05-02-2008, 11:05 AM

We spend about the same, I have $400 budgeted for gas and $400 for groceries. The both usually come in right around that. I would be spending about $46.00 more on fuel, but I get one fill up from work a month (I go the post office and the bank and whatever other errands for the them).

About 5 years ago $800.00 was all we spent a month on everything including gas, groceries, electric, phone, cable and internet bill, now we are lucky if $1600 gets us by.

**DAAC3DEC** · 05-02-2008, 11:18 AM

I spend double in gas what I do in groceries, though now that the weather is warming up it will be better, hubbies truck is a guzzler...........

**YankeeMom** · 05-02-2008, 11:27 AM

Not yet.
Dh's commute is only 10 miles one way, 5 days/week. I take the kids to & from school 5 days a week which adds up to about 10 miles per week (2 miles per day). Although on nice days, I walk to pick them up saving half the 'commute'.

I do the bulk of my shopping once a month and that's only a 20 mile round trip to the commissary, shopping for loss leaders *maybe* once a week...usually it's only every other week that there's something worth driving 4 miles across town to get.

If/when gas gets to $4/gallon dh will be switching his work hours so he works eight 9hr days then has a day off. So every other week would be a 4-day work week for him saving one day's commute.

**ShawnaRae** · 05-02-2008, 11:47 AM

No, but I spend at least $600/mo. on food. I just calculated my gas mileage yesterday, 33 mpg. That really helps. It's a kia rio. It's a real pain to have such a small car sometimes, but I'm grateful for it now. I drove about 220 miles into town and back yesterday and do that twice a month. I actually quit my job last year because it was 35 miles away. I probably would be spending more on gas if I still had that commute.

**pkellyc** · 05-02-2008, 12:05 PM

We are. DH drives a Dodge Dakota pick up 50 miles one way to work. I drive a Neon but it's starting to get a little shaky and DH is afraid to drive it so far on a daily basis.

**mommy4ever** · 05-02-2008, 12:11 PM

We're at $150 a week for gas most weeks. This is more than our grocery budget.

**mmy2grls** · 05-02-2008, 12:12 PM

That sounds scary to be paying as much in gas as for groceries,ouch

**mommy4ever** · 05-02-2008, 12:14 PM

oops... trigger happy.

This is driving 2 vans. We're looking at selling 1 van and getting a small car and use the car as much as possible. We're reluctant as dh is over 6 feet and he gets a sore back from a small car, but with the continuously rising cost... there's not much choice. I'm going to see if he can carpool. If he drives 3 or 4 guys a week, they give $20 each a week, that pays the gas for his work use.

**sdrjeolsen** · 05-02-2008, 12:44 PM

I just ran a Quicken catagory report, year to date we have spent 3x more on gas than on groceries!

546/mo for gas and 182.00/mo for groceries

**cheles2kids** · 05-02-2008, 01:00 PM

Gas-Around $400.00 a month
Food-Around $500.00 a month

So it's gonna be about even pretty soon if something doesn't happen-either gas goes down (which isn't likely at all) or groceries go down (which isn't likely either).

It's sad, isn't it.