No Spend November: in review

If you’re new to my no spend series, be sure to check out my previous article about what a no spend month is. It explains more of what budget cuts we made as well as what a no spend month entails. We had a lot of goals for the month but I’m sure you’re wondering, in review…

How did November go?

We actually did pretty well, I would say! It didn’t really feel like that big of a challenge, it was more of being mindful with spending. We previously lowered our budget by quite a bit (see previous post) and tried hard to stay within the categories. We definitely did for some, but others went over.

Here’s how we did with our categories:

Groceries: budgeted $175, spent $225

Consumables: budgeted $30, spent $3.32!

Health: budgeted $200, spent $290

Aria’s Allowance: stayed within budget

Jane: budgeted $50, spent $37.07

Gifts: budgeted $40, spent $0!

Date night: budgeted $20, spent $15.56

Clothing: budgeted $10, spent $0

Of course, there are other accounts I’m not going to mention today for the sake of brevity, but this is the majority of our spending, besides bills and gas.

I am very proud of us for not spending anything over Black Friday except for new pacifiers for Jane. YAY!

Also, we had a road trip and we only ate out once, on the way back. On the way there we packed a lunch! On the way back we stopped at Panda Express and got a large plate for $15ish.

And that is basically it for November - pretty boring because we didn’t spend much! But I am proud of how we did, and hopefully December will be about the same! If you’re interested in other posts related to this series, like what we bought on Amazon, ways to keep from overspending, and more, be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss them when they come out!