Comments on: No Spending Challenge

By: Mandy Sue

Mandy Sue — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:41:34 +0000

Ha ha, I just found your blog, and love it! The first time I tried this, I was thwarted within a few hours when I discovered I had just finished the very last roll of toliet paper in the house… yeah, its the little things that will get you!

By: Kids End No Spending Challenge | Oh My Aching Debts

Kids End No Spending Challenge | Oh My Aching Debts — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:00:37 +0000

[...] on April 27, 2008Filed Under Spending | I thought I had better update my no spending challenge. I did pretty well until yesterday when I met my teenage children after CPR class. We [...]

By: cindys

cindys — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:04:44 +0000

Denise, yes, planning ahead is wise as long as you aren’t stocking up in advance. Planning your day ahead is a lesson that I need to practice more often. I often have no spend weekends just because I don’t leave the farm.

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:48:55 +0000

I try to regularly have no spend days just like I plan no meat meals into our weekly menu. Sometimes it works out well and other times it doesn’t. I try to plan for them and that helps. If I know that Monday will be one and I have to work that day, I get gas on Sunday and take my lunch and drinks with me Monday. Of course, I do that most of the time, anyway, but planning ahead helps me be a little more successful with no spend days.

Good luck to you and keep us posted on it!

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:31:57 +0000

When my husband and I were younger and poorer, we made a game of not spending for a month. We would pay bills on the 30th, stock up on groceries, and put gas in the cars. The only thing we spent money on the rest of the month was for gas. By the end of the month we were ready for some fresh fruit. And I can’t stand powdered milk. The real benefit of doing this is to break my bad spending habits. I got out of the habit of eating out, going to Target, etc. I got creative with meals and recreation. Now that I have 3 kids this isn’t totally practical, but right now April is a “no spend money month” and the kids know not to ask to go out to eat, or for anything that isn’t a need. It gets them thinking about how often they want to spend money and that they really can make do most of the time.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:12:27 +0000

Awesome idea. I should give that a try. And good luck to you!

By: Moneytummy

Moneytummy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:54:48 +0000

Just found your blog…very cool idea to try to go the rest of the month without spending.
I think I’ll have to try for a no spend day first, just starting out here.
Good luck!

By: bouncing back

bouncing back — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:16:41 +0000

It’s the little things that get me, forgetting postage for a letter that has to be mailed, really craving a soda at work, etc.

I try to do at least 2-3 no spend days per week. It’s hard! I managed to do Sunday and Monday this week, had hoped to do today (but my milk went sour I need milk). One of my goals for May is to increase my no spend days and like you said, it can be done via smarter shopping trips, using whats in the cupboards, etc.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:07:47 +0000

I love the idea of seeing how long you can go without spending. Just this week my husband and I decided we have enough food in the pantry for quite a long time. We are going to see how long we can eat out of the pantry and freezer without buying food.

I am trying to be a bit creative with recipes but it looks like it will be quite awhile.

PS love your blog and all the interesting Ideas as well as information about what others are writing

Susan