After being sick, I was back in action in time to do the shopping trip for the 22nd. Sort of. I didn't have much of a plan, but I had a list, but there were a few complicating factors. First of all, I wasn't entirely sane (long story, but basically I was on a junk food binge), and I was also buying groceries to give to the library to pay in exchange for fines.
It turns out that the four of us with library cards have managed to accumulate over $100 in fines for borrowing free books and then being incapable of returning them on time. But this month the library is letting people pay off fines with food ($2 per item), so we're trying to pull together a decent pile of non-perishable items that will cost significantly less than the $100 we owe. So I'm going to try to exclude those items from the totals, if I can remember which ones should be included.
Aldi: $4.75
Aldi: $96.95 ($16.92 for library)
Woolworths: $63.35 ($10.00 for library)
Coles: $82.09
Coles: $6.00
Aldi: 21.67
Total: $274.81
Over the weekly average again, but hopefully not by so much that it won't screw up the average for the month. Right now, it's at $258.90 for the three weeks, which means I need to keep next week's shop at $183.29 or less to stick with my $240 weekly average. That's only 10 cents less than what I spent for the fourth week last month, so it shouldn't be a problem.
And just as a little update on the point of the extra saving--the money we're setting aside for a vacation this summer--after this week's shopping we should've saved and deposited $500 since we started. Thanks to careful budgeting and a little extra work I picked up, we're already at $745.00
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