Another week… and I think it was okay… though we did get a little crazy with the farm stuff this week! (We bought chickens!!!)

Here’s the totals…

Kerosene 6%
Gas 11%
Fast Food 3%
Household 21%
Pets/Farm 37%
Bills (Internet) 18%
Extra 4%

Spent a total of $489 bucks.

Made my second order from Soap.com… ABSOLUTELY love them! $45 got me all the stuff I need for about 2 weeks. paper stuff, girl stuff, bathroom stuff… and NOTHING EXTRA! I love it. And I was able to get all 7th generation stuff for my paper stuff… all 100% post consumer recycled! yeah! I like that.

I went to the Dollar Store… ONCE and only got exactly what I wanted. $8 and out the door.

My extras were slim as well… bought a book of ebay and also Season Two of Friends on DVD cheap. Since we don’t have cable, what I’ve been doing is every so often I get a good TV series on DVD… it’s a whole bunch of episodes and takes me a couple weeks to chew through. Cheaper than cable!

My average receipt this week was $32 bucks… I really think about that now… knowing that “stopping” somewhere or buying something is at LEAST $25… that really makes me think about too many little stops. It’s lists for us and no more goofy extra impulse buys.

Got two more weeks to go and then a big look over and see how it all pans out. I know this coming week is gonna be a killer for bills and such… Got a big electric plan payment for $250 to make and a cell bill of $160… those are two big gorillas hanging over my shoulder! But we can do it. Thank goodness the weather is warming up and we’ve actually had two days that we had no heaters running and no kerosene either! I predict that will help GREATLY!!!