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I spent a lot considering I put myself on a spending freeze!

YES. I really have to figure out a better way to budget cuz what I'm doing now just is not cutting it.

Yes, paid off Christmas presents and got more stuff.

Yes but it was because it was Chinese new year so I handed out a Crap load of red envelopes.

@autumnlove: i just realized. i spent a lot on upcoming stuff that i didn't take into account! i did do better on shopping/food tho!

No, we were pretty careful about spending since we had Christmas and birthdays to pay for. My husband owes me a new fridge, but I didn't push it in January so he would feel like we recovered financially a little- we actually came out a little ahead, but that is counting fridge money. I AM getting that new fridge this month though. I'm a tiny bit obsessed about getting rid of that beast in my kitchen.

I returned a bunch of clothes that I really didn't need and didn't like, that was a great feeling. But then I went and spent money on new boots.

We're also redoing our laundry room, which we didn't really plan, but my husband kind of got fed up with the state of it.

Yes, on groceries/food. Partially because we went on vacation and groceries were much more expensive there, and partially because we hosted a dinner at our house and spent a lot of extra funds on that. Boo.

We did reaaaaaally good about not spending on food!

I spent too much in December (NYC trip, eating out for NYE, Christmas) and then January's bills were ridiculous soooo in January I actually didn't spend all that much.

At first, I said, no, but we did move into a house and so we did spent a lot on furniture, moving, security deposit on house and some other things.

I did cut down on the necessary spending like shopping for myself. We did however spend almost everyday last week eating takeout because we were moving.

Yeah we booked a vacation that frankly we have no business taking, but we really need, our kitty has been crazy $$, our cars were both due for inspection, mr. Bird's car needed fixing, our car ins payments started back up (we pay 10 payments each year & I have it so we get a break from then during the holidays) which I forgot about, our utilities went through the roof & for some reason we had two electric meter reads. We also had a lot of things come up schedule wise that threw off our meal planning & we ordered out/threw away more food than I'd like to admit

No, I made no clothing purchases (huge for me) or any household purchases.

We had a super bowl party, so we spent a ton. We also got a bunch of furniture.

We did OK. We spent a bunch, but almost all of it was planned spending. We're still going to try to take it easy in February, though.