It is the end of the day and I have now officially not spent any money.

I just sat down with my calendar and rearranged my dinner menus. We are eating for free the next few days because we've been invited over to other people's houses. My friends do this a lot, so when I entertain, I know it will be reciprocated. It's nice!

Anyway, we have enough food in the house to get us through dinner through Sept. 8. That's pretty good! So dinners are taken care of, but not breakfast or lunch. I am lousy about planning for those two meals. Sometimes I try, but mostly I don't. I just go to the store and pick a lb of turkey meat and a few loaves of bread. I don't know how much of anything to buy because it isn't actually recipes. So my next step is to actually plan lunches for all four of us. Breakfast is basically oatmeal, yogurt or cold cereal, so that is easy.

I think I will make that my next challenge. Plan lunches! I can not count on leftovers, because usually if I have leftovers, I have enough for another full meal for all four of us. Those are repackaged and frozen. Lunch leftovers only happen if there is enough leftover for only one person, and that doesn't happen often around here.

I'm going to sit down tonight and make up a grocery list for next Friday as well as a preplanned spending list. I know I need an oil change and the boys need haircuts. My mom gave me a cutsie little porcelain purse that has notepaper in it and I thought "Great, clutter." That sounds awful, I know. I found a use for it today! I stuck it next to my microwave with a pencil and now the little notepapers are my grocery list and preplanned spending lists. We have never had a running grocery list before, and I think running lists are very smart. My mom always had a running list, so I'm not sure why we don't. It's all part of my debt free plan!