Thursday, November 17, 2005

We must fix the budget!

Ours, not the nation's.

Saturday, I was at work for physical inventory and Karen was at home doing some of her own inventory... of our money. She's now put each of us on a spending allowance of $250/month, not including gas, grocery, or utilities. This has been happening since Nov. 1, and I am underspending her by $110. I rule, yay. (think Howard Dean yelling "yeaaarrrrghhhh" here) Most of my money goes towards soft drinks, m&m's, and sandwiches from the machine at work, and Karen bought new smoke detectors and coats for her and James (which almost accounts for the $110 difference). I've picked up a couple of trips to Custards (where we spend about $8/trip), and a dinner or two. I have to say it's very weird being a 30-something on an allowance again. We'll see how long this lasts, my "magic credit card" finger is getting itchy... Oh, and Christmas presents don't count. I think I am getting "me" lots of stuff soon. :)

2 comments:

Annette said...

that's a lot of spending money home boy...especially, if it doesn't count groceries, gas, and food!

fish said...

It doesn't include my junk food money, which is probably my biggest monthly expense, sadly. It also doesn't include my lunch money.

It sounds like an awful lot of money to me too, but it just seems to slip through my fingers like water. I can't imagine how much money I spent when I was a smoker, I bet it was phenomenal.