No Spend Month

So I just read a blog about a couple who decided to make July no spend month for their family.  Money has been extremely tight around our house lately but we still find ourselves spending loads of money, so this really tickled my fancy. I read the blog and found that it really wasn't a no spend month, they just limited their excess spending to about $200 including gas and groceries.

My  husband and I decided this would be a really good thing four our house.  We just replenished our food storage so we are going to try a no spend month for August.  We are going to go a little more extreme, though.  Instead of limiting our money for the month of August, we are only going to purchase specific items.  Aside from our mortgage and other bills that we have to pay, the only things we are going to buy this month are gas and milk.  We are not going to eat out or buy ourselves anything.  Instead, we are going to figure out things to eat that we already have around the house.

August is a good month for us to do this because we do have a garden that will be providing us with potatoes, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, and corn to help out.  We also have chickens that will give us some eggs.  Everything else we'll just have to live off of what we have in storage.
I'll blog about it over the next month as well, let you know about tricks we figure out or tasty food storage meals we come across.
Wish us luck!!!