One of the new outfits...
The new casual shoe...
Grant and I have set up a budget several times in the past. We usually just stick with it for a month. This is our 5th ? week now on our budget and I am obsessed with it! It is like a game for me! I am now clipping coupons, separating cash into envelopes, planning our meals, and adding as I go at Wal-Mart! The hardest thing has been (NOT) buying clothes for Addison, but I have found ways to manipulate the system- my own system! HA! But budgets can be broken occasionally, right? Like today- Addison and I went to LR. I cashed in some miles on our Discover card and got some Children's Place gift cards. I also had a coupon to Gymboree so we went there, too-had to earn some gymbucks! We then went to Shoe Connection because I wanted to get Addison some Maryjane Keds for spring. They had an awesome sale going on. I REALLY needed new boots. My brown boots were so bad I threw them away, and my black ones are close to visiting the brown ones in the trash! I thought I would get a brown pair at an awesome price of 25 bucks. But I would actually save money if I went ahead and got the black ones, too, instead of paying full price in the fall, right? So I did. Then they have the cutest bows there and at $5 a piece- what a deal! So...I broke the budget a little today. But girls have to have shoes! and bows!
My next plan to break the budget is going to entail me buying a reader for my memory stick so I can post some picts! Addison had so much fun tonight trying on her new clothes for her daddy. We would put on an outfit and she would run into the living room saying, "look daddy, look!" She was too cute! Wish I had of taken some picts!
Do any of you have any pointers or suggestions for budgeting? How do you make it work? I am amazed at how much money I am able to save!
1 comments:
Oh girl, the wonderful life of budgeting. I have actually had to be on a budget for about 4 years now (on my own and with Ben)! Sometimes I want to shoot the budget, but hey it makes for a happy marriage :) If I want to go out shopping, we will save for a few weeks to give me some cash to go out and have a ball.
Also, we usually allow ourselves some play money to spend on whatever we choose (guns, shoes, etc.) It helps for both of us to be able to spend freely with the money that we have given to each other as “play money”.
I too have found the making lists is the best way to figure out what I really want to have and what is just going to be an emotional buy. I will write down everything that I want to get whether it be for our now child Coco, present for Ben, clothes, shoes, makeup, hair, etc. (whatever it is that I see myself spending money on in the future)…. And I just wait. (this is the hard part) I will review the list a few days after I make it and come to find that some of the ideas were pretty emotional and will scratch them off, then I wait a few more days and find out that more of them were not really what I wanted to spend money on either. After about a week or so I can still add to the list and the things that have stayed on there, I can pretty much assume that I want to buy. That has done wonders for me cause like most women, it makes me feel good to go out and buy new things.
Hope this helps! We can always do better, but you should be so proud that you have done a great job at staying on a budget for as long as you have. It really helps out for everyone involved!
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