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Weekly shopping totals for week ending 10/29: Saved 76%!

Here are my weekly grocery and drug store shopping totals. They include how much I would have spent without sales and coupons, how much I saved and how much I actually spent. How did you do this week?

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Faye Prosser

 

Here are my weekly grocery and drug store shopping totals for the week ending 10/29. They include how much I would have spent without sales and coupons, how much I saved and how much I actually spent. How did you do this week?

Subtotal before sales and coupons: $222.93
Total saved: $169.36
Total paid: $53.57
% Saved: 76%

My weekly budget is $80/week and I was $26.43 under budget last week which put me well under budget for the month of October!

Last week I shopped at Harris Teeter, CVS, Walgreens, Kroger (using $25 in free groceries from a prescription transfer promotion) and Walamrt (price matched the .99 Aldi pineapple price!) 

How is monthly budget amount determined?

In case you are curious, the way I figure my monthly budget is based on the number of days in the month:

My weekly budget is $80 per week ($4,160 per year)

$80 divided by 7 days in a week = $11.42 per day

Then I multiply the number of days in the specific month by $11.42 to get my monthly budget for each month. There are 31 days in October so my budget was $354.02 for the month.

 

How did you do last week?

 

To figure out the percentage you saved:

Take the total amount saved divided by the total cost of the products before sales and coupons.

How did you do this week?

 

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