Today my husband went food shopping with a list.
For many
that’s not a big deal but for me it was. I’ve always wanted to make a
shopping list but AMI prefers to remember what we don’t have at home by
heart. So, we normally take our car and without looking in the fridge go
food shopping based on the assumption that we need milk, veggies,
fruits and few other things. In the end we come home with extra things
that we don’t really need because we have them already or we never eat
them until the next shopping trip.
I’m frugal when it comes to
clothes shopping and my husband it comes to buying cars – you should see
our $1250 {Canadian Dollar (CD)} old car. Though he’s frugal he has
never set a goal with his frugality. This changed last week, when he
decided to buy a family car and during his search he found a blog of
somebody who managed to retire by the age of fifty due to his frugal
living. My husband was inspired. Now, his challenge for February is to
save as much money as he can.
Two days ago we sat in our living
room floor and, as AOI was playing with her toys, we made a list of
things we wanted to achieve each month as a family. I have my personal
goals and he has his but we want to achieve family goals. So we thought
how perfect to challenge ourselves to be frugal, thus Frugal Living
February Challenge became our first goal/challenge.
Our weekly
food shopping allowance is $115 {CD}. This will help us be conscious
about what we put in our trolley at the supermarket, and hopefully we
won’t waste money on unnecessary items.
Also we won’t do
takeaways, buy Tim Horton’s doughnuts – I told AMI that if we want
doughnut we have to find a nice recipe and make them ourselves. Thus, we
also have a food challenge.
So, my husband came back home with
all the things on the shopping list and he spent only $90 and for dinner
he cooked a delicious fish and chips, a British pub style.
We’ll see how far we go with this challenge.