Hmm, finances ... looking over our "balance sheet," on our brand new green analysis pad, it appears we've been eating good. We’ve had shrimp linguini and wine, our regular favorite seafood salad, and some excellent governor’s chicken. This is an odd way to start cost cutting efforts! We found $20 cash which is good, but we paid a $1 donation to the center's fund raiser for the sole purpose of chocolate bar eating! Diet guys, think diet!
We paid for our late cable, electric, and phone bills by phone and we found a couple of outfits we’re going to get from a catalogue.
We have a cash balance of $25 in bills, $5 in purse change, and $7.75 in our "sock/towel in-house laundry fund." We have a wish list of a digital camera and a cell phone. We’re going to pay up our Dr. M. bill in full to get a 50% discount and we're going to make payments on general medical bills, government, and school. We still don't own a credit card!
Our regular costs in no particular order are: AOL, smoking, parking for doctor appointments, pharmacy, food, taking the boys out for dinners periodically, rent, electric, phone, cable, medical insurance, car insurance, school loan, government oversight, gas for car, and take out laundry. Pretty good 16 whole line items! We must be rich!
There is also new money rules and regulations. These include things like: we’re now going to make same day deposits, half monthly we can take out $155 cash for food, parking, and laundry service. We have to eat "slim" for 6 days, but on the 7th day, God has created for us restaurants that are to be blessed with wine!
There is to be $50 emergency money carried with us at all times, mail is to be picked up 6 days a week, transactions will be recorded and processed every day and there is to be a slurpee fund!
The "blechy" items (stamps, sundries, paper goods, cat food, etc.) will be purchased for no more than $40 bi-monthly, dishes get washed every day (hmm, can this be on a money list?), bill paying and its space is to be kept efficient, no one is to use the bank card other than for stated purposes, and decision making will be ruled by parts of our own system!
Yep, yep financial sovereignty! After everything is paid, we’ll have a "free" spending of $158.19 a month. Since all these decisions are choices made by the "system," this is all pretty damn good!
2 comments:
Good for y'all. A great looking budget. I don't think I'll ever be so fiscally responsible. :) Thanks!!
That Happy Chica,
Marcia Ellen
*Giggling* We've yet to be this responsible over the last 15 years! Just giving it good old fashioned effort! Ya know though, today we continued on this vein of responsibility, and as one thing leads to another, we even did household cleaning and took care of laundry! Man, do I hope this is all not just a really good dream! Thanks for taking an interest. We enjoyed also reading about you and your sisters. Come back some more!
Our love,
Ayn
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