Several years ago, Leigha read an article that talked about various ways to save money. One of them said not to go grocery shopping for an entire month. It was something that we had considered doing for quite a while but for whatever reason, never did. January 2010 was just the month. We also decided to pair this with not going out to eat. But with two young kids, we had to make a few stipulations. The rules:
1. The kids’ joint birthday party on January 14th didn’t count if we bought food for the dozen adults that would be coming over.
2. We could purchase perishable food items that could potentially go bad during the month, (Milk, Bread, Fruit & Vegetables) but not meat.
3. If we already had a gift card to a restaurant, we could use it.
4. Somebody else could take us out to eat.
