{"id":1219,"date":"2013-06-30T07:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2013-06-29T20:13:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T00:13:50","slug":"june-in-review-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"June in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Financial goals:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>In June the focus was to reduce the overall debt we owed. I was able to pay $750 overall this money. I did realize that when planning my budget in July that I would be $240 short for the month. I have already paid ahead $100 of this, my plan is to use the remaining gas money from June to cover the rest. One of the reason, June was an awesome month for us was the fact I picked up several extra days work at the Nursing home.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pay off Lawn mower by March 2014, so no interest is charged. <\/strong>Made an extra payment on this. (see above)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Pay off all outstanding debt except the mortgage by <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>June<\/strong><\/em>&#8211;\u00a0No new debt incurred!<\/li>\n<li><em><strong> Emergency fund to $2000<\/strong>&#8211;<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Did not add to it this month.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Maintain a budget using a form of the envelope system<\/strong> <\/em>&#8211; Still working well!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Groceries: Spend $600 or less a month\u00a0 <\/strong>Ouch, Ouch and ouch. I currently set at $860 for the month. This does include Kendall&#8217;s birthday cake, stock up from Bath and Body Works as well as an order from Zaycon foods that will be picked up in July. I did find and check national averages this month. My understand is that groceries in this average are considered only food. Everything purchased at a Grocery store, drug store or Costco I count in this. The national average for a family of 6 with children the same ages as mine, considered &#8220;thrifty&#8221; was $748! So I should not feel as bad, at least that is what I am telling myself. I hope to get the average down by the end of the year but I don&#8217;t know that it will happen prior to school starting again. In July we will be purchasing meat so that usually throws the entire budget out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gas- <\/strong> I am adding this category. The goal each month is to spend $450 or less for gas.\u00a0 We spent $340 this month. I am going to use the remaining money to cover regular expenses in July. Hopefully in the future I will be able to place in our auto fund as Matt is picking up more work to cover the short fall in our regular budget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blogging:\u00a0 <em>Goal: 15 per month <\/em><\/strong>This is post number 14 for the month. I am excited because I feel like I have gotten into a good grove with post and am able to post more frequently. Our schedule for the past 3 weeks has been insane so I also think that as things slow down, I can post more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Devotions: Goal is 5 a week<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Goal Met! I am really enjoying my morning time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Weight: Goal to exercise 3x a week and to be down to 150 by December by losing around 4 # a month.<\/em><\/strong>. To be honest, I have not even address this goal this month. 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