I need to improve in the eating out/takeout and grocery shopping category. I just don't feel like cooking (I will blame it on pregnancy) and I don't plan ahead for meals so I go to the store a lot and spend too much!
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Online shopping for baby clothes. They have a lot of clothes, but I still find myself sticking them into the same thing over and over!
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Eating out for sure! After a full day of work and solo parenting most nights, the weekends get here and the last thing I want to do is cook.
I brought lunch to work and all I'm doing is daydreaming about going out and getting something else. ugh -
@twodoghouse: yes! It's so hard to always rmeebr what they have and don't have!
We just need to cut back splurges. Stuff we pretty much need but we could probably suffice with a cheaper version.
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We also spend a lot on take out right now but with me being pregnant it's kind of a necessary evil. I never know what I will want to eat (or if I will want to eat) for dinner so if we meal plan ahead and buy a bunch of stuff at the grocery store, we run the risk of it being wasted because I wasn't feeling well enough to cook it or eat it.
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All the baby clothes. We have way more than we could ever use. I still occasionally buy things that are a good deal like 2t PJS. But only buy seasonal items as I need them, like sunhats, not before so I don't pre buy out of season items. Especially not that shes not going to daycare like we planned I bought a fair amount of stuff because it was cheap/used- that I'll likely just give away or sell at a loss.
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@twodoghouse: same!
Why do I buy so many clothes for LO's while I struggle daily to find something to wear in my closet, lol.
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The eating out and takeout for sure. It is so tough to get a handle on because NYC is such an eating out/takeout kind of city even without parenting and pregnancy challenges thrown in so when you add an almost 3 year old and being pregnant it is so hard to stay on track! I am trying to force myself though, pregnant or not I will roast that chicken tonight hahaha.
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@HLK208: Yes! I NEED to be finding nursing friendly clothes for me. Not cute clothes for the babe.
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Our grocery bill was getting a little out of control so I've been working on that.
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@Truth Bombs: Ditto. We have to be really flexible with dinner due to me having hyperemesis and constant nausea. Thankfully, I have 15 days left until my due date.
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Definitely too much on take-out/eating out.
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@dc yoga bee: I've still got 28 weeks to go
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@autumnlove: same as you.
I hate cooking and grocery shopping!
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Take out and groceries are a big one.
We're just about to switch providers and cut our cable package to something more basic (we don't watch TV so why pay for a bunch of extra channel packages?!). We will hopefully be saving $80/month by doing this.
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our grocery bills and lunch spending. you'd think with the high grocery bills that i would be making enough to take leftovers to lunch, but nope! i've managed to somehow combine both as high costs.
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Food. I am so embarrassed at how much I think we've spent for May.
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Groceries I guess. I'm not good at shopping sales or using coupons.
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@HLK208: omg yes! I will easily open up my wallet to buy for the LOs, but I have such a hard shopping for myself!
I think groceries. If I meal planned better, we would waste less money on food.
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Groceries could always be trimmed back. The weeks that I make a solid meal plan, we spend less and have better meals and more food to go around. Winging it at the grocery store is not good for our budget!
DH spends a good chunk of money on coffee and lunches out, but I'm OK with that because he works his ass off and it isn't breaking the bank.
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@Youboots: @HLK208: I spent $500 on nursing friendly clothes just this week. Plus another $100 in bras. First splurge since the baby was born, and my pre-prego summer clothes don't fit me yet, so it was needed. I wouldn't call it unneccessary spending.
I do need to curb my grocery habits, however. Whenever I end up shopping, I pick up way too many sweets and snacks that we don't need. Which doesn't help DH and I lose weight either.
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@twodoghouse: This. I'm awful with buying kids clothes. Really just awful. I need to stop.
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Online shopping.. especially now for maternity clothes, lol. I'm a sucker for coupon codes and sales :\ I need to stop!!
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@autumnlove: SAME. This week we got back into cooking and we've saved so much money. When I was pregnant, I cooked only a handful of times. I had really bad MS but no excuses now 4 months after DD is here...
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Food! I have no idea how to fix this. I read all these posts about living off of $100 a week for a family of 4 and I literally don't understand it. I make lunches and drink coffee at home. I cook almost all dinners, buy virtually no snacks and can't figure out how not to spend $1000/month.
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@Astro Bee: I bought some clothes this week too and immediately started to feel guilty. But I actually did need a few items for summer- why do we let ourselves feel guilty over spending money on ourselves even if it's needed?!
Coffee- ha. I've been going out for coffee too much instead of making my own.
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Eating out and Starbucks
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Transportation. We're considering going back down to one car.
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kids' clothes and food. food is tough because everything is so pricey here, but if i planned better, froze more, batch cooked more, i could save more money. clothes i have no excuse!
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Food!!!!!
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Furniture and home decor! We just moved into our new home a little over a month ago and I feel like everything we have goes into furnishing our home! That should stop soon though or at least not such big expensive pieces!
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Eating out (we've cut down a lot but could still do better) & clothes.
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Food, for sure. We don't really have a grocery budget, mainly b/c DH does all the grocery shopping and cooking so it's hard for me to impose a budget into him, and this is also one area that I just never really know what we need to spend! Plus we eat out probably 1-2 times a week, depending what we are doing on the weekends.
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@Mrs. Bee: but their clothes are so cute and inspiring for the rest of us. Maybe you could write them off as a work expense!
I need to cut back on eating out at work. It's hard to get a good lunch out for under $12, and that adds up.
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eating out, taking cabs (we live in NYC) & Starbucks. We're moving to the suburbs soon so I anticipate the eating out and taking cabs will be easy to lessen. Starbucks will be hard for me to give up, as my office is right next door to one. Weekends will be coffee at home. Hopefully once we move I can get my grocery shopping tendencies under control and definitely do some meal planning.
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@autumnlove: me exactly. (Though I'm not pregnant so I don't have that excuse!)
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Food, we don't really meal plan, I try buy I feel like if we did we would definitely save! As for eating out we might 1-2 times a week, but we are OK with that
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I need to meal plan and grocery shop better. I spend WAY too much at the grocery store monthly.
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@bananapancakes I have the same frustration! I cook almost every meal at home. It's not like I'm making steak and Cornish game hens every night, so why is it so hard to keep my home and grocery expenses under $1,000? Last week I read a blog post about a woman who feeds her whole family for $75 a week and I was just like whaaaaat? Seriously does not compute.
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