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Healthy Habits Challenge - March 2019

This is the monthly installment of how I "earn" my makeup budget by doing things that are better for me than consuming makeup and makeup-related media.

Purchases:
~ The Balm Batter Up eyeshadow stick "batter up" - $3 - as with most of my makeup purchases from Marshall's, I regret this already. Still trying to make it work.
~ Benefit brow bar service at Ulta - This is a beauty service, and thus not included since it's not an area I tend to go crazy with.
~ Too Faced Peach Perfect duo - $32 (I used a $10 gift card) - This comes with the full sizes of the peach perfect primer and the peach setting spray. I've tried both and have said I'd repurchase both so this was a good deal for me. There was also a decent GWP code and 8% back on Ebates, so I'll take it.
~ ABH brow wiz (from Ulta 21 Days of Beauty) - $10.50 - I also bought another Clinique "Take the Day Off" cleansing balm, but since that's a replacement it won't come from this budget.
~ Buxom lipgloss "Kir Royale" - $11 at Ulta 21 days of beauty

Books read ($1 per 100 pages)
~ Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas - 662 pages ($6.62)
~ Circe by Madeline Miller - 334 pages ($3.34)
~ Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 465 pages ($4.65)
~ Mrs Fletcher by Tom Perrotta - 337 pages ($3.37)

Exercise ($5 per workout video, from the BeachBody line of workout videos)
~ 3/3/19 - LIIFT 4 - Week1, Day1 - $5
~ 3/5/19 - 1h walk - $5
~ 3/7/19 - LIIFT4 - Week1, Day2 - $5
~ 3/8/19 - LIIFT4 - Week1, Day3 - $5
~ 3/9/19 - LIIFT4 - Week1, Day4 - $5
~ 3/12/19 - LIIFT4 - Week2, Day1 - $5
~ 3/13/19 - LIIFT4 - Week2, Day2 - $5
~ 3/13/19 - 1h walk - $5
~ 3/14/19 - LIIFT4 - Week2, Day3 - $5
~ 3/15/19 - LIFFT4 - Week2, Day4 - $5
~ 3/19/19 - LIIFT4 - Week3, Day1 - $5
~ 3/20/19 -LIIFT4 - Week3, Day2 - $5
~ 3/23/19 - LIIFT4 - Week3, Day3 - $5
~ 3/23/19 - 1h walk - $5
~ 3/24/19 - LIIFT4 - Week3, Day4 - $5
~ 3/28/19 - LIIFT4 - Week4, Day1 - $5
~ 3/28/19 - 1h walk - $5
~ 3/30/19 - LIIFT4 - Week4, Day2 - $5
~ 3/31/19 - 1h walk - $5


Money available to spend: $71.64

No-buy update - As you may have noticed, the no-buy went by the wayside. BUT I have been able to stick to this "earning my budget" system better than in the past. I waited to buy the "Peach Perfect Duo" until I had earned the money, when in the past I would buy it when I wanted it because I knew I would earn the money for it eventually. I bought a few springtime/Easter decorations for the house, but I haven't gone crazy. While it would have been cool to stay aboard the no-buy train, I think my spending is pretty balanced at the moment. With the exception of how much I spend on food, both at the grocery store and eating out (but that's another work in progress).

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