Next month (May) I am going to try my hardest to stay within the budget I have set for my family. I started doing a budget over a year ago and to this day, I have not stayed completely within the budget ever! I love doing my budget but sometimes it makes me sick to think of all of the money we are spending monthly! Well, that is going to change next month and I am going to do it ;) I just need to learn how to say no when something comes up that we really don't need especially when we have spent all of the money allowed in a particular category. Also, it will be a little tricky since we now have a new monthly expense since we just bought life insurance. Also, Justin gets 3 paychecks instead of 2 in May which means extra money. We need to save that money for school though because he is starting in August!
It will help that we are going to get money from the government which we are allowed to spend beyond Justin's paychecks so hopefully we will do it! I will post again at the end of the month to let you all know if we succeeded or not!!!
10 years ago
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Great idea. We need to get better at budgeting our money as well. Lately we have been horrible with our money....okay I take that back, we are always horrible with our money! If it wasn't for Cole keeping on top of our expenses we'd be broke as a joke. I hope you succeed!!!
I feel very motivated to do the same! What degree is Justin going to school for?
Justin is getting his executive MBA from BYU although this year the program will be based out of SLC so the drive won't be too bad for him. It's also every other Friday and Saturday so that's nice he won't be in school for very long each week.
Good luck! I hope you're better at staying in your budget than I am. :) Way to have a goal, I'm proud!
Good luck with that! Ryan keeps threatening to put me on a budget, but so far he hasn't gotten around to it. Lucky for him I'm not much of a spender-except for scrapbooking stuff.
What a lovely family:)
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