Mom and I went to Old Colorado City yesterday to look around. We went to Fargo's for lunch - Victorian style pizza parlor. We split a small pizza and both had salads. $7.00 each.
I didn't buy anything in Old Colorado, just looked. I did get 2 books for my niece at Border's both 20% off. Spent $16.30 and at Bed, Bath and Beyond I spent $20 on an Entertainment book. Had a coupons for $10 off a $30 purchase. The book has 4 $5 off $50 Safeway coupons that I can use at King Soopers so anything else I use from the book is profit.
Went to Walgreens and spent $1 on groceries today.
1.99 - 1/2 gal milk
4.00 - 2 bags Lays potato chips
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5.99
-5.00 RR from St Ives deal
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.99 told them to keep the penny 
For the month of October I spent $1,162.15. My monthly retirement budget is $1,500.00 I put aside about $200.00 a month for insurance and property taxes. So I'm under budget by almost $150 this month. I expect I'll go over in some other month.
Here are my totals
Groceries - 138.90
Eat-out - 120.00
Household - 70.24
Books - 61.87
Utilities - 159.77
Gas - 25.00
HOA - 165.00
Xmas - 158.06
Misc - 51.57
Health - 211.74
Eat-out includes the $60 I bought in Gift cards for Texas Road House. So those are meals that won't count in future months.
I also have a bunch of rebates coming which will lower groceries/household in the coming months.
I track all that comes out of pocket during the month.
Finished reading my book Island by Richard Laymon. Mystery. OK kind of wierd.
October spending
October 31st, 2008 at 08:15 pm
December 2nd, 2008 at 07:37 pm 1228246650
January 15th, 2009 at 01:43 am 1231983788
September 21st, 2009 at 10:26 pm 1253572009