Tracking Grocery Expenditures
Groceries is probably the budget item I am tracking the closest. My spreadsheet is set up to total annual, monthly, and weekly expenses. In addition, I keep running totals for the year, month and week.
Getting close to the end of IV I noticed the following. I did not close out week III properly, I left out one record of the totals. Of course this means we spent more than I had originally thought. DOH!
This week, we seem to be ahead of the spending game by quite a bit. However, Sunday is our main grocery day so we can catch up, but we do not have a large shopping list this week. There is only one item Lorie and I can think of we need to purchase and there is no immediate need so if there is no coupon, perhaps we can skip the Sunday trip to the grocery store. However, we are starting to get low on tangerines and almonds, but I think we will be able to defer that to next week.
To date our grocery spending is amounting $76.37/week but like I said I will wait until we close this week to count on that number holding. I am hoping we can pull it down.
A new category, yeah! Right? No! In this category I will discuss my mess ups in managing our money. and I have one to report right now!
Trying to change myself and you on thrift and savings! It is hard to save save save in a spend spend spend world, but it is better to save than spend!