South County Girl: What we Spent in January (2018)

Friday, February 2, 2018

What we Spent in January (2018)

Every month we use our handy dandy spreadsheet to keep track of our expenses throughout the year in an effort to be more mindful of how we part with our hard earned resources.

I find that when we are more mindful with our spending, we enjoy the things we do as a family more... and we enjoy the things we already have because we aren't buying everything that comes across our radar of "oooohhhhh, that's cool...."

We had a pretty productive month in terms of our house renovations.

Ceilings were painted, we got a new kitchen table, bed, AND we made gobs of progress on operation build a custom closet from Ikea to remove the death trap closet we inherited when we moved... so we spent some serious $$$$.

I'm really proud that we nailed out grocery budget for the month. We went $13 over, but we didn't have ANY fresh food in our house when we came back from Utah, so we had to buy groceries for 5 weeks... and we only spent $65 on eating out... All of which was mostly PLANNED, which is another victory. We only had 1 emergency dinner "lunch" when we realized we needed to go to Ikea a second time because we forgot to buy hinges, but other than that it was a work lunch here or there when Hubs got stuck driving with a microwave lunch... or I was working late for an event so the boys planned to have little cesars so cooler heads would prevail.