Groceries- Budget $975   We have spent over $10,400 in 2023 which is an average of $866 a month.  My goal was $975 a month so YAY!  I did manage to stay under budget for 7 of 12 months!  I am planning to leave this amount unchanged for 2024 but will hopefully be able to incorporate the purchase of a whole or half side of beef.

Auto/ Gas. Goal -= $600 a month. We spent $5740 on gas. Which is an average of $478 a month.  We did manage to spend over $600 on gas in 3 of the last 12 months. I can explain this with the fact that we travelled each of those 3 months. I am going to reduce the budget to $500 a month to leave some wiggle room for traveling as well.

Blogging- 15 post per month. Yet again, I did not meet this goal. I was able to blog 15 times last January and 17 times last May.  I am going to leave this goal, as a form of accountability.  I do enjoy reviewing blogs but sometime blogging gets pushed to the back burner.

Exercise- I am struggling both with my health and how to improve it!  I am losing a small bit of weight.  I ended the year at 220.   Hopefully I will be under 190 by the end of 2024.

2023 brought lots of celebrations and also a fair bit of change.  I hope to make 2024 less stress, fun and need to enjoy some additional down time for sure!