{"id":2474,"date":"2014-10-02T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2014-10-02T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:15:06","slug":"october-budget-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"October Budget  Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to join <a href=\"http:\/\/halfdozendaily.typepad.com\/my-half-dozen-daily\/2014\/10\/october-budget-challenge.html\">Carla<\/a> in her October Budget Challenge. One of the reason that I so enjoying reading Carla&#8217;s blog is that she is real, she does not try to pad number\u00a0or just say hey I am going to do this and then forget to tell us what is up even it is ugly.\u00a0\u00a0So now on to me&#8230;\u00a0I have already talked about how we are trying to save money so now I am going to put some numbers to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>My big goal for the month will be to have $600 in our Michigan trip fund by the\u00a0end of the month.\u00a0\u00a0 I am hoping to do this mainly by saving money from small areas such as gas, groceries and utilities. In addition, I have placed several items up for sale and will be receiving the cash for these as well. I am also hoping to get a small bump in income from Matt this month.<\/p>\n<p>So my goal for the week is very similar to Carla&#8217;s&#8230;&#8230; stay on budget. Currently as of today, I have spent $265 of our $600 grocery budget, so my goal is to definitely not spend anything else on groceries for the week.<\/p>\n<p>I will be updating on Thursday\/Friday of each week as this is usually payday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to join Carla in her October Budget Challenge. One of the reason that I so enjoying reading Carla&#8217;s blog is that she is real, she does not try to pad number\u00a0or just say hey I am going &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=2474\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgeting","category-goals","category-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ySyX-DU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}