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The No-Spend Month: Week 3
An up and down week.
Holiday weeks always throw me off. Don’t get me wrong — I was very grateful to have the 21st off work for President’s Day, but I am left floundering a little bit and taking longer than usual to get my head on straight this week (what day is it again?)
I am, accordingly, a little late with last week’s no-spend month update, but here we are. And here we go.
Last week — the week of February 14th-18th — was a bit of an up and down week. There were days I spent no money, and days I fell into my old online shopping ways. I still didn’t do too bad overall, though, and I’m here to share how the week went regardless.
February 14th
I started off the week with a grocery order, like usual. The nice thing about this week’s grocery order was that Instacart gave me a coupon, so I got $30 off of my week of groceries. Although it wasn’t something that I actively sought out, it was a nice way to kick off the week.
February 15th
On Tuesday I made a few purchases that, while necessary, weren’t urgent and weren’t quite in my budget for the month. Nevertheless, I needed a new cheese slicer and a drain stick to clean the hair out of my bathroom sink, so I found myself on Amazon perusing the saved items in my cart and…