It’s time for the first budget review of my 2025 low/no buy… it’s been a good one.
It’s time for the first budget review of my 2025 low/no buy… it’s been a good one. 😁
Some small wins:
📱switched my phone plan to mint at 50% for the first year for $180 – I was paying $90 for 1080 a year
🍲 stuck to the dining out budget and fast food plan 🙌🏻
Total saved: $573 (after much recalculating) – a big win!
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My 2025 No/Low Buy Rules and Savings Goals
And we’re back!
Join me for Year 2 of my Low/No Buy Project. Tips for doing a low/no buy based on what I learned in 2024, and my money and savings goals for 2025.
My 2025 Low/No Buy Rules: Only 15 non-essential item limit (ie. the “pretty things”).
⛔ No clothing (except replacements – investing in key pieces and second hand options), new books (except the two I preordered) – read what I have, teas, hair accessories, lotions, makeup, perfumes, bags, blind boxes, “cute stuff without a purpose,” pens.
Limit dining out.
my December budget review and recap of my 2024 low/no buy savings challenge
Join me for a review of my December budget and a recap of my 2024 low/no buy rules and goals. Plus, all the ways I failed at sticking to those rules, and realizing that those categories are not the real problem at all.
December was another $0 savings month, but that was expected.
My biggest challenge this year was dining out.
My No buy rules for 2024 included:
NO beauty bath hair accessories bags, etc. clothes tea books stationary fragrances excess consumables
Overall, I failed, but my spend in these areas was not as bad as my dining out spend.
A chatty sit-down update on my 2024 budget/savings challenge.
Let’s sit down and go over my March budget, challenges, successes, and areas where I’m starting to see progress. Overall, it was a better month than February in terms of savings. I’m seeing a trend in the right direction and finally saving some cash for future expenses.
This was a challenging month with lots of unexpected and unplanned expenses. I barely managed to stay within my budget, but I did, so I’ll take that as a success.
marginalia and such 