Sorry about the gap there, guys. I'm pretty easily distracted. Anyway, a full legal pad page detailing our expenses for Days 6-9 is above.
A total of:
$7.75 for cigarettes
$45.00 in gasoline/car stuff (brake & power steering fluid)
$10.00 in whiskey
$17.00 for Mother's Day Cards (we had to buy 5)
$64.00 for my prescription
$129.19 for groceries (only 52.19 of that was legit groceries though, and part of the other $78 was booze)
Also, we've slightly adjusted this months mission statement. In order to better understand how we blow our money we're just going to spend as usual. Then at the end of the month we're going to go through our documents and cut out all the stuff we don't absolutely need. Make sense?
Deciding to just randomly live on $1000 without any prior planning revealed itself as a rather silly plan because we didn't know where we needed to cut back or how to determine what's a definite need and what we can still splurge on. So starting June 1 will be our first official $1000 or bust month.
How about an example? Our current balance would obviously put us in the hole as soon as we pay the $310 in rent. So next month we list rent as absolutely necessary (duh) and cut back on the extra groceries we bought for the cookout ($78) p.s. that link is a cartoon... click it, hopefully the cigarettes (careful, that link is gross...just like smoking) and something else. I might have to find a way to spend less on gas... although with an hour commute everyday that might be damn near impossible.
Day 9 Balance: $229.38
dudeeee, you suck at this whole not drinking to save money thing. lol unless the booze was for orphans, and then its ok.
ReplyDeletei sooo need to track my expenses better. you just may have given me yet another goal :)
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