Thank you sooo much for the big welcome. I didn't know if anyone would even read my blog, let alone respond to it. I really appreciate all the wonderful welcoming comments that I have gotten!
I think there is a little confusion about the $100 a week my husband gets. He uses it for his "own" entertainment.
Lunch when at work.
Dinner when working late.
Movies because I think movies are too expensive and will only go if comes out of his portion of the budget.
Then, of course, fuel for his vehicle.
The reason why I am so bitter about his $100 a week is because I am able to make my $150 for household expenses(food, dog food, co-pays at doctors, my own gas, children's clothes/shoes, my own clothes, personal items and prescriptions)go so far.
My husband would not care if I spent more a week but I very rarely have the need. I am able to make it work just fine with $150. I think if he would just put a little effort into spending less we would be way ahead of the game instead of just maintaining. Well, enough venting....my theory is if I can't go through him I will just go around him.
Moving on, I would like to start a grocery journal to keep track of trends and sales at the stores I shop at most. Any ideas? I really don't want to do a paper grocery journal but rather an online one. Anyone attempted this?
Thanks for the Big Welcome!
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I think it makes sense to focus on what you have control over. Breing bitter won't help you. Maybe it's something you can put on the back burner until you've mulled over possoble approaches. (Pack him lunch once a week, get him discount cards for the restaurants he goes to, find him the cheapest gas fill up place, have a "contest" with him about saving to use the male competitive spirit to your advantage-there are probably hundreds of tactics for when you are ready.)
Flash and Boefixpa are two posters with very different but very effective grocery shoppong styles-Flash uses coupons in an extraordinary manner, Boe is going with cooking from scratch and doing lot's of bulk-aiming for below $50 a month-for real. I'd look for their posts and Flash's blog.
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