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    Default Budget Busters

    What (if anything) causes you to blow the budget?

    For me it's:

    loss leaders at the grocery store
    yarn
    eating out
    computer gadgets

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    Beauty products
    Books
    Household products

    I always feel like I need to try every new thing that comes out!!
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    Eating out
    Snacks

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    Eating out
    fundraisers at the school
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    - sending my husband to the grocery store instead of going myself

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    eating out
    and TAKING my husband with me to the grocery store (WalMart)!
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    What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. -- Barbara Jordan

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    Budget buster# 1 Letting Dh have an ATM card at all
    Budget Buster #2 Ordering pizza when I am too tired to make dinner even though i have everything thawed out and half prepared
    Budget Buster #3 "Mommy can I have that?"
    Budget Buster #4 Walmart
    Budget Buster #5 Bidding on things on eBay, why do I do that

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    Shoes
    Craft supplies

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    Sam's Club
    grocery store loss leaders (good one!)
    ebay
    2012 Knitting in progress
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    • Amiga cardigan
    • Gilmore vest
    • gray socks, brown socks, gray-and-brown socks, green socks

    2012 Finished (3):
    • Branching Out scarf
    • Vivonne Bay hat
    • Petits trous de printemps scarf

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    Those fantastic once every 4 month or so unbeatable sales at the grocery store (today it was a big cereal sale and I spent $55 on cereals but we are stocked for at least 4 months if I can ration it out)

    Eating out

    The high price of gas for our vehicles

    Hunting stuff for hubby and the boys



    and currently auto insurance for 1 teenaged boy and soon to be adding 2 more to our policy

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    teenagers!
    On 11-22-85 I married the man of my dreams.
    On 01-13-89 I gave birth to the love of my life.

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    Beauty products
    Make-up
    Clothes (esp summer clothes!!)
    Shoes

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    baby stuff
    kids clothes
    craft stuff
    vehicle stuff
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    Eating out
    Going to Sam's


    Hi everybody. I wasn't a longtime poster, but I was starting to become a regular for a while. Was really sick and depressed for a while, but I'm better and glad to be back.

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