Category: Budgeting

I’m going to talk about a dirty word. It’s a six letter dirty word. Can you guess what it is? Budget. Not many people want to think or talk about budgeting. It has a lot of negative connotations: visions of living on rice and beans, never having any fun, counting each and every penny, worrying… Continue reading Setup An Easy Monthly Budget

We’re mid-way through August so it only makes sense for me to update you on how our grocery and eating out spending went in June and July. Just to refresh your memory, my plan (which is in this post) for spending is – Groceries – $400/month Eating out – $225/month Coffee – $50/month In June,… Continue reading June & July Grocery Spending and Eating Out Update

(These flowers have nothing to do with budgets but they make me feel better when I look at them. Aren’t azaleas gorgeous?!) So… we started out the year with pretty much no restaurant budget. And last week I said I would share just how much damage we’ve done so far this year with eating out.… Continue reading Restaurant Budget Recap for 2014 (Doesn’t Look Good, Folks)

In My Kitchen Say goodbye to Money Monday and hello to “In My Kitchen,” which is a new, regular weekly feature about our grocery budget, meal planning and recipes. Yahoo! I’ve moved this budgeting feature to Wednesdays because I now do all of my grocery shopping on Tuesdays so it’s a lot easier to update… Continue reading Grocery Budget for May and a Plan for June (less eating out, more drinking coffee)

I don’t know how a whole two months went by without me updating about our grocery spending, but they did. Whew! I left off in February, and at that point we had added $429.14 to our annual grocery spending. My monthly spending goal for groceries is $400 so February had us over budget by $29.14,… Continue reading Money Monday: March and April Grocery Total

  A couple weeks ago, I shared how I budget in 6 easy steps and this week I thought I would check in with you on how our budgeting is going. I left off sharing our tracking for the month of January and, to that point, we had spent $333.12, and we were averaging $83.28… Continue reading Money Monday: February Grocery Total