Weekly Spending Report (1/2-1/8/12)

Here's what we spent this week. Overall, I feel like it was a fairly reasonable week. I made some tweaks to offset the cost of the race registrations (returned some clothes), we ate out using a gift card, I ended up cutting back on a gift from $75 to $50. In addition, I did not buy myself a ski pass when we took the kids skiing yesterday. Even though I really wanted to ski while my son was in lessons, it seemed silly to buy the pass when I knew I would only be able to ski by myself for a few hours. In the end, my son was ready to ride the lift after his lessons, and I sat out while everyone else skied. It sucked, & I'll definitely buy myself a ski pass next time. Oh well, lesson learned.

The areas where we spent more than anticipated:
-My race registrations. I knew this was coming, but didn't budget this for January.
-$320 for the kids for spring baseball. Also knew this was coming, but had no idea the registration happened in January. (This was our first time signing the kids up.)
-M's jeans
-I didn't know we needed a ski pass for N (our youngest) until a few days ago. His ski lessons required it, so it was a must do.

• Monday (1/2):
• $63.29 - Groceries at Costco
• $70.95 - sheet set at Costco
• $5 - tip on lunch out with M. (Had a gift card for the remaining amount)
• Tuesday (1/3):
• $50 - graduation gift for my cousin
• Wednesday (1/4):
• $38.10 - race registration for 10K in March
• $108 - race registration for 1/2 marathon in May
• -$70.95 (returned a different sheet set that was the wrong color)
• Thursday (1/5):
• $1.99 - Safeway for lentils. Hoping to make ham & split pea soup for my lunches.
• $50.88 - Gas
• $1.15 - smoothie at the gym. On gift card. :-)
• Friday (1/6):
• -$29.75 - returned a couple of tops to the Gap
• -$26.27 - returned a jacked & top to Lands End
• -$30.85 - returned a couple of other tops to Lands End
• $320 - registered the boys for spring Little League. I didn't know the registrations were coming up in January, so this is an unbudgeted expense. However, they only had 5 spots left in their age group, so I bit the bullet & registered them. In order to keep the budget on track, I need to find that money from some other spot.
• $1.15 - smoothie at the gym. On gift card.
• Saturday (1/7):
• $23.43 - Safeway for groceries. I had to pick up some snacks/drinks for our mini trip next weekend. We're staying overnight at a water park with my sister & her kids, and it's much cheaper to bring snacks from home.
• $194.91 - jeans for M. He ripped out his old jeans, and applied $100 of Christmas money to this purchase. Still over our budget, but he buys jeans one time per year, and this is his preferred brand.
• Sunday (1/8):
• $12 - ski pass for my little guy.

Total spent for the week = $780.73. A huge improvement over most of our other weeks, like this one, for example! How did you do on your spending for the week?