Why did I get excited today when my Corey told me we were going to start using a monthly budget? I've been wanting to lately, to track our spending, but I wasn't sure how to start it. Well, Corey took care of it thankfully. Everytime I buy something, I have to post the cost under a category. I get a certain amount of money for MY spending each month, as does Corey.
This will help me reign in my spending which I'll admit has gotten a bit much lately. I can't say I bought anything crazy or extravagent but I tend to buy things I want and don't necessarily need.
One good thing I have going on is my diet. I have to plan my meals and on this particular diet (Weight Watchers) I don't eat out much. So grocery amounts might go up but eating out is down. We used to go out to eat quite a bit and it wasn't at places like McDonald's and Wendy's (although I challenge you to eat cheap there these days). Another thing we can do is go to places that allow kids to eat free. That will help us out, considering our kids eat small amounts so it would be nice not to have to pay anything for them right now.
Anyway, we hope to use this budget to not only save money but to help us control our spending on frivilous things. So as of today, we're budget friendly. Ok, off to go post things under my spending since I did go do a little shopping today before I found out about the budget. Fortunately it was only $7.00.
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