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May Report Card

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My goal for 2009 is to only spend $40 per week at the grocery store and to use that extra savings to grow our emergency fund to six months worth of living expenses.

For 4 weeks in May I spent $190.83 versus a budget of $189.40 ($40 x 4 + $29.40 overage from April). That means I need to subtract $1.43 from my June budget.

Each week you see I list how much I save with coupons. I added that to my spreadsheet so I can see how much I save over a month or year with coupons. In May, I saved $101.09 with coupons and year to date I’ve saved $1164.79. That’s just manufacturer coupons – not Extra Bucks.

So far we have 34% of our goal of 6 months of living expenses. We had a bunch of unexpected expenses this month so we didn’t get to save as much this month as I would have liked.

That’s my progress. How are you doing with your goals?

Comments

  1. marie says:

    That’s great you have been able to save so much toward your goal. I’m lucky in that we have no budget really for anything, so the grocery savings in more a game than anything else. But I am encouraging more people to save using coupons. Why not??

  2. Melissa says:

    Awesome job!

    I just finished April’s budget. So I don’t have an update. It’s been a crazy couple months around here.

  3. Hello. Do you guys eat for the week on what you buy? I buy some gluten free and organic items and can’t seem to come anywhere near that. Any advise?