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Budgeting: July

2 Jul

I’ve been doing pretty well in my budgeting endeavors! I only bought a few things over the last few weeks and my purchases were planned and I used a few coupons.  Here’s what I bought:

Aveeno Daily Moisture Body Wash- $6.99 (after $2 coupon)

Crest Vivid White Toothpaste – $4.25 (after $.75 coupon)

Supergoop! Spf 30 Everyday Face and Body Moisturizer- $15

EOS Lemon spf 15 lip balm- $3.29

2 packs Venus Embrace Disposables- $9.87 for both (after buy one get one free coupon) *that’s $4.93 a pack!!*

1 gallon of Aloe Vera Juice- 7.99

Avocado Oil-6.99

Rosemary Oil- 5.99

Grand Total: $47.04 (after coupons, a gift card, and other discounts)

That’s still more than I would have liked to spend (that trip to GNC for those oils put me over the edge :/) but I’m getting better! This month, I plan to spend less than $25. But there are a few things that are going to make that VERY difficult for me.

  1. I have a $4 coupon for the Venus + Olay razor that expires at the end of the month
  2. Ulta is having a huge summer sale
  3. I’m getting dangerously low on my staple conditioners and aloe vera gel

Now, good sense would tell me to start with the things I “need” and work my way up from there, but my good sense often fails me when nail polish and hair crap are involved. Nevertheless, I’ll do my best. Pray for me.

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Young, Broke, and Fabulous

5 Jun

I just combed through my bank statement from last month and discovered that I spent a whopping $200+ on miscellaneous bullshit. I spent another $75 in Ulta. On what you might ask? I have no effing clue. But I do know one thing, it stops here. I’m putting myself on a strict budget (I thought I had already, but obviously that didn’t work). I have all this stuff on my Summer Want list, but I nibbled away at the dollars I should’ve been using for that. NO MORE, I SAY! From now on, I will not be buying stuff that I don’t need unless:

  1. It’s something I use over and over and is at a rock-bottom, once-a-year price i.e. when I bought 2 razor cartridge refills b/c they were on sale at 60% off + two $2 coupons
  2. To replace a product I currently have but isn’t working
  3. A limited edition nail color

That seems like a lot of exceptions, but I can count the instances on my hand that those issues have been the case (and coincidentally, none of them were the case last month).

 

Also, I will allow myself a slight budget for stuff I don’t need, but I’ll only purchase those items based on priority (how bad/long I’ve wanted it). So. I’ll start with a budget of $150/month to be broken down as such:

 

$40 skin/makeup

$30 hair

$80 clothes (I NEVER buy clothes, so my wardrobe consists of an ass of shit that I only kinda like, but bought for a dirt cheap price)

 

So wish me luck. Join me. Whatever floats your boat.

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