My Family’s Money

As per our blogger/blog reader agreement, here are the numbers for our monthly spending:

This would have been another month of stellar budgeting skills had it not been for a thieving friend and a case of pay-a-bill-twice-for-no-reason syndrome that snuck (or is it sneaked – you decide) up on me without warning. Our thieving friend is getting married and my wife simply had to throw one of those before-you-get-married-you-should-have-one-of-these parties that ended up accounting for $75 worth of expenses that landed in our Misc budget line. Add to that my thoughtless double payment on my wife’s cellular policy we would have done even better this month than last, running about $140 under budget – which isn’t too shabby if you ask me. The only good news here is that we were still under budget and that I won’t have to pay our cell phone bill next month – which may translate into a killer month next month, unless some other friend of ours decides to steal our money too. *shakes fist at air indiscriminately*

Our food budget crept up this month to $2.25 per person per day. I little while back I tried to live off less than a $1 a day for food for an entire week (it was fun, you should try it) and I am thinking of doing it again sometime soon for possibly as much as a month. I ate mostly beans and rice, spinach, and a few apples – so I may have to try and do some food diversification if I make a run for a whole month. It will be interesting to see to how my body handles the decrease in calorie consumption given that I now walk about 3 miles a day to get to work. If I end up doing it I will be sure to post all the info here as per our blogger/blog reader agreement. Agreements are agreements after all.