what did you 'not' buy this week....

**sabrelvssammy** · 02-08-2009, 09:16 PM

so what did you walk away from that you would have loved to have....what did you 'not' buy this week ?

**pollypurebred39** · 02-08-2009, 09:28 PM

Lots of clearance toys, and clearance bath and beauty baskets to stick away on my gift shelf. Amazing deals that I just walked away from.*SIGH*

**Megareader** · 02-08-2009, 09:40 PM

Books! I have decided not to buy any new books until I have read the ones I already have.

**Ashie06** · 02-08-2009, 09:49 PM

all the frozen foods @ Aldi's! lol I don't have the room!

...and containers @ Goodwill. we didn't have the $, sigh. pretty bad when you can't afford Goodwill

**thesightofoneself** · 02-08-2009, 10:02 PM

a shirt online

**gardening momma** · 02-08-2009, 10:12 PM

Food.

Seriously. I'm doing 3 weeks without grocery spending, only milk & bread allowed. And diet pop for dh, because I didn't get that when I stocked up for the 3 weeks. So I finally got around to the grocery store for that, and I forced myself to not get anything else.

I wouldn't get a sticker on my chart if I cheated :-)

**jonesies** · 02-08-2009, 10:41 PM

A notebook for my purse. Was in the dollar aisle and eyed a cute, small pocket notebook and rationalized in my head that it was only a dollar. Then, came back to earth and reminded myself of all the things I could buy with that dollar. So, no notebook. Not a big "not buy", but the pain was the same.

**Debbie-cat** · 02-08-2009, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by jonesies

A notebook for my purse. Was in the dollar aisle and eyed a cute, small pocket notebook and rationalized in my head that it was only a dollar. Then, came back to earth and reminded myself of all the things I could buy with that dollar. So, no notebook. Not a big "not buy", but the pain was the same.

Good for you!!

That is the way to pinch those pennies!

**WV_mom_of2** · 02-09-2009, 07:22 AM

Well so far it's been a tv. We desperately need a new one because ours is really blurry and getting worse every day. I found one of the "old" style online for 219.00 and I really think I should order it since you can't find that type anywhere at stores and I can NOT afford one of the new flat screen ones.

I might still order it because I know when our's goes totally bad then I won't have any money to buy a fancy one and I might not be able to find the cheaper old style anywhere anymore.

**phoeny_moonstar** · 02-09-2009, 07:30 AM

Bookcases, coffee pot, numerous other knick knack items at good will..

**Momto2Boyz** · 02-09-2009, 07:34 AM

I went shopping with my mom for a dress for my brother's wedding in September.

I found a super cute sundress to wear to the rehursal dinner. But, I passed it up!

I probably should have bought it, becuase it was marked down to 39.99 (It was originally almost $80) and it was 75% off the sales price. But, since I have been pretty successful in shrinking my waistline this far, I figured I'd better wait. If I buy now, it might not fit come September, then it'll be a waste of money, and I'll never wear it...so even the super sales prices, won't be worth it!

**joyofsix** · 02-09-2009, 08:17 AM

We didn't go out to eat Saturday night, even though dh offered.

**sabrelvssammy** · 02-09-2009, 08:56 AM

i did not buy dinner out with a friend friday night....even though she totally tempted me with mexican....i didn't buy dinner out any other night even though dh kept saying "want to go out to eat?"...

i didn't buy the couple of really good bargains at st vinc..because i was only going to resell them at my own yard sale-(i didn't need them)....but if they didn't sell....

i didn't buy another bag of valentine candy hearts coz i made myself sick with the 1st bag....

**Lora88** · 02-09-2009, 08:58 AM

A beautiful 3 stone diamond ring on JTV it was an aweome buy and dh said go for it for valentines day but not in this economy when things could change in a day 2 years ago I wouldnt have hesitated but not now

**TheRootedNomad** · 02-09-2009, 09:18 AM

~ I was going to stop for coffee on the way to work this morning but intentionally drove past the gas station.

Garbage bags is probably the big one. I have REFUSED to buy them for several weeks now. My kids keep asking when we're getting "real garbage bags". I keep telling them "I don't know". We have used up any of the old grocery bags I had stored from before we switched to cloth on a regular basis. (I've been useing the cloth ones for a LONG time but it's only been the past 6 months or so that I've been REALLY consistent about it.) Then I raided my mothers house for those old grocery bags. A couple of times we used whatever box we had emptied and a few times we used newspaper. I really don't want to buy garbage bags ever again but I have yet to figure out how I'm going to do this indefinately.

~ lunch at work last week - I never bought it on a daily basis but I did buy it frequently. They raised the price last week and now it's not so frugal so I'm no longer buying it.