Thursday: Another week of budgeting is begun. Last week I was pretty pleased that I not only saved money, I produced something from my kitchen to add to my pantry and food stores. You do realize producing can mean you put an extra casserole in the freezer when you're already making one or you buy and freeze extra produce for a future use? It all counts.
Technically, when I shopped today it might look like March spending. It isn't. Everything purchased today was bought on sale for April. It won't be used here in March at all although it was all purchased today. I needed nothing for my March meals to be complete. I was looking at sales and looking ahead when I made out my shopping list.
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