The household budget for our family is $400 a month and includes all groceries, household products, clothing, gifts and newspapers. While I’m still short on a few things in my stockpile, I think we’re pretty well covered.
My biggest recurring expense is newspapers, so I am searching out other options besides paying $3 per Sunday paper for the Dallas Morning News at Walgreens (it’s over $4 to have it delivered). Back in NWA I had 2 subscriptions delivered to our house for about 55 cents each! Hopefully I’ll get something figured out this month and my overage at Walgreens can soon go towards something besides papers!
Here are the totals for this month:
I spent $287.39
I saved $520.49
I made $91.26
Total impact to my family this month: $873.93 saved!
This is why I was still out with my kids last week on Tuesday night after their bedtimes on my terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. I don’t want to end up paying full price for items just because I was having a bad day and couldn’t make it to the store before the sales ended. Sometimes you just gotta do what ya gotta do.