Last night
my BF and I had our first month end talk.
For the past few weeks, we have been on a sort of spending fast, trying
to curb our impulse buys. We did pretty well
actually, better than we expected for the first month.
All in all,
we only had 2 impulse incidents. The
first was when we went to a festival with the kids. We had planned a picnic lunch and brought
water bottles to avoid kiosk junk food, but when we got there, we found out
that there was a boil water advisory for the town. The bottle we had brought lasted for most of
the day, but on the way home we bought some drinks and baby carrots at the
grocery store, grand total of 10$. The
other was when we were rushing between dropping off the kids and heading for an
out of town event. Neither of us had
eaten lunch and we wouldn’t be served dinner until 8, so we made a stop at
McDonald’s.
More
importantly, we stayed within 50$ of our planned budget, and reduces our
spending by over 200$ compared to last month.
Woo-freakin-hoo!
One other
thing we noticed was that in total between the two of us we had made 15 trips
to grocery stores, 15, in a month. We
decided that our next plan of action is to plan our meals better and reduce
that by half.
I think the
best part of this whole thing is that now that we are open about our finances, we
are working as a team, which makes it a whole lot easier, kind of like having a
workout buddy, but for your budget.
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