So July did bring some much better news for us financially. Matt started his new job in July!\u00a0 We will not see a huge benefit with this until at least September but it is a huge first step.<\/p>\n
Financial- July was not as good as June,\u00a0 We increased our overall debit by $459. I am hoping to see a significant change in this in August. We have some outside of the box plans that I will share as they occur.<\/p>\n
Grocery budget $475- Total spent $580.23. Yikes. This is another month over budget. I may need to increase this amount again in the coming months when things settle down.<\/p>\n
Gas budget- $280- Spent $291. I am going to increase the budget to $300 a month starting in August.\u00a0 We purchased a small car to use for my home health job so I am hopeful that this will keep our expenses close to $300 each month.<\/p>\n
Kid\/Summer expenses : No extra expenses for July. However both Baseball and LYT will be due in August<\/p>\n
Earned $115- This is also a slight improvement over the month of July. Shopkicks has been the difference this month. Extra money is always a bonus!<\/p>\n
Personal-
\nBlogging- 7 for the month. This should definitely increase with my new job!
\nExercise- 5 total days for the month. Small improvements are key in this area.<\/p>\n
I am going to be really honest and say that August appears to be another tight month until we are able to adjust to our new incomes. I will only be paid for 2 weeks in August and Matt will be short of pay for our week of vacation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So July did bring some much better news for us financially. Matt started his new job in July!\u00a0 We will not see a huge benefit with this until at least September but it is a huge first step. Financial- July … Continue reading