No Spend Month - Week 3

This is a series on budgeting, check out the rules, week 1, week 2, week 4, and the wrap-up.
This has definitely been an interesting week. My computer had a virus, and I had to take it to the repair shop. I probably could have found someone to fix it for free, but I was afraid to take the chance of losing any data. So, I paid $120 to have it cleaned up; however, I used some of our emergency funds and did not consider it part of my monthly budget (hey, I made the rule, so I can decide what counts).

Also, our darling daughter (DD) outgrew her carseat and needed an upgrade. Of course, safety comes before anything else so I was prepared to buy her one, but luckily her grandparents offered to purchase her new carseat as an early Christmas gift. We have been looking for one used, but haven't had any luck for the past month.

And, they say these things come in threes, so to top it off my dissertation was partially rejected because of formatting issues. So, I had to reprint half of it again on the expensive paper - which I had to buy.

Here is the breakdown for this week:

$30 gas (luckily gas has gone down but I've been running on a quarter tank all month)
$13 fancy paper
$80 groceries (this includes all the food for our Thanksgiving meal, minus the turkey)

THREE WEEK TOTAL: $292

Fortunately, we did come into some money this week. We had a garage sale last weekend and made $50, and I made $100 on eBay. In addition, we received a free full-sized pie (which we'll be enjoying on Thanksgiving) from the company that installed our soft water system.

Well, you can do the math, but I have a whopping $8 left for next week...It's not looking pretty, but at least all our meals are covered and hopefully my dissertation will not have to be printed...again.

photo by ES

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