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NSM Week 4

Suppers for the week
Sunday- Leftovers from Olive Garden
Monday- Sloppy Joe
Tuesday-Lasagna
Wednesday-Fajitas
Thursday- Strengthening Families supper for me/ Leftovers for Zach
Friday- Pizza

Well, we not only survived NSM, I even kept up on blogging about it!  Now, we did change up the rules and spend a little, but over all, we did pretty well!  First of all, we didn't have to buy a truck like last year, and second of all, we didn't really "do" Valentine's day.

Now, it would be all well and good to just say we did a good job, but I want to guesstimate (It's a word in my mind) how much we saved.

The line-up:
We usually go to Qdoba every Monday night, which is around $10.  (4 x's/month
Usually at Target we pick out a movie, clothes, or junk food.  I'm going to est. about $30 each trip. (We got at least 7-9 x's/month)
Zach usually buys something each time he works at Bucks and Jakes. About $20 on average. (2 x's/ month)
Snacks after school for me or buy lunch.  Around $20/week

So let's do some math

 $40  Qdoba
$210  Target (conservatively- that # is for 7 trips)
 $40   B & J's
 $80   My lunches/snacks
$370

Wow!  I don't know about you, but with our incomes, to be able to save that much money is huge.  It wasn't easy when we were tempted to go out to eat or buy something, but it was so worth it.  All in all, a NSM month well spent!!

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