Billy and I had a little tiff in the New Seasons parking lot yesterday. Just a wee one. It was over rice. Yes, I mean it. This stuff:
Hardly seems worth arguing about, does it? But budgeting does funny things to one’s logic sometimes.
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Cari’s Spending: Um…whoops!
Sep 18
In my last post I said we were on track to stick to the budget this week. I should never, ever say that. It always spells disaster. We would have been on track to stay on budget this week if the receipt (and connected shopping trip) I’d forgotten at the bottom of my wallet didn’t exist. It does. And we are WAY over budget.
The breakdown:
Billy’s lunches (he didn’t bring lunch twice this week): $16
Restaurants: $31
Groceries: $126.01
Total: $173.01
Over budget by $48.01
Damn. So where did the money go?
I think we’re getting the hang of this budget thing. We ate one (inexpensive) restaurant meal this week, Billy bought his lunch twice and had a couple of scones, I had some deep cheese cravings that led to a serious stocking-up on on-sale Tillamook cheddar, a LOT of organic fruit was purchased and consumed, and we still came in under budget.
The breakdown:
