February Monthly Totals

This month I spent $361.51 on $865.99 of products. That's an overall saving of about 59%.

January Monthly Totals

This month I spent $297.95 on $668.79 of products. That's an overall saving of about 55%.

I have been doing less stockpiling this month because I am pretty well stocked on many things. This month more of my focus has been on just finding and taking advantage of the best prices on fresh items like meat & produce. You can still save a lot of money each month and eat healthy. And when dealing with things like produce, you usually don't have to use coupons, you just need to use the tools that are out there to find the best prices.

December Monthly Totals

This month I spent $425.41 on $1,170.88 of products. Over $1,000 in free products this month. That's an overall saving of about 64% which is pretty good over the holidays.

November Monthly Totals

I have to say ... This month was my best month yet! I spent $368.85 but got $2,076.32 in products!! That is over $1,700 in free stuff this month. That works out to be an overall savings of 83%!!

October Monthly Totals

This month I spent $393.42 on $1,438.49 of products. Over $1,000 in free products this month. That's an overall saving of about 73%!!

September Monthly Totals

This month I spent $329.56 on $1,424.08 of products. Over $1,000 in free products this month. That's an overall saving of about 77%!!

August Monthly Totals

This month I spent $459.40 on $1,744.81 of products. Over $1,200 in free products this month.

July Monthly Totals

This month I spent $440.26 on $1,446.35 of products. Once again, over $1K in free products this month.

June Monthly Totals

This month I spent $405.51 and got $1,414.29 in groceries, household, beauty, baby and toiletry items ... over $1K worth of items for free!!

May Monthly Totals

This month I spent $374.05 and got $1,192.87 in groceries, household, beauty, baby and toiletry items.

April Totals

March Totals

April Monthly Totals

So LAST MONTH I posted my monthly spending and savings totals as a way to be accountable for what I spent and to show how much money you can save with a little planning ahead and being frugal. I was determined to spend less in April then I did in March. Well, since I am making myself accountable I have to admit, I didn't do it. I spent more this month then last month. I am still in stockpiling mode and am not only stockpiling for my own family but I am having so much fun stockpiling for my siblings and my dad. But I still scored some amazing deals. Here are my totals:

I spent $464.63 and got $2,226.04 in groceries, household, health and beauty and baby items! That's over $1,700 in savings!!

Next month I will have to set a goal to get my OOP down which for me really just means passing up on some great deals which I have to admit is kind of hard for me to do. :)

March Monthly Totals

I have been keeping track of how much money I spend on groceries, toiletries, health & beauty products and cleaning supplies. I have never been really good about keeping track before, I just always tried to be frugal. I went into my Microsoft Money program where I keep my spending information and ran some reports to try to see how much money we used to spend on these areas. The data isn't super accurate but I figured we used to spend on average around $600-$700 per month on these products which included a little bit of stocking up but not much. As I have been learning how to live more frugally and save money I have been much better about tracking these things. I am now keeping a spreadsheet of all these types of purchases, how much I have spent and how much I have saved. My totals for this month are as follows:

Spent $364.73* on a total of $1,811 in products. Not bad! It's like getting $1,500 in free products in one month. No wonder my storage areas are starting to run out of open space! My goal for April is to be well under the $300 mark. This month was higher then I would like to normally fall mostly because I am doing some mega stocking up. I think from now on out I will be doing less stocking up since I am so well stocked in many areas. I am putting these numbers here on my blog to help keep me accountable and to help me stick to my goals.

* I went back in and figured how much of this was pure "groceries" and it worked out to be about $230. Pretty good for a family of 5!