This month has been a rather expensive one for us. We adopted a new dog ($300), paid our taxes ($1000), and had work done on the car ($1400). Those are all expenditures that aren’t in the normal monthly budget, though we do have savings specifically to cover these things.
However, April also happens to be a 3 paycheck month for me, and I’m also getting a small bonus.
Today I fleshed out the final April budget, accounting for these expenses. We are paying them all, along with an extra $1000 toward my graduate student loans, without pulling any money out of savings. In fact, we’ll still manage to put $500 in to savings.
This also means that as of 4/18, we will have enough money in savings to pay for a full year’s worth of full time college for my husband, even if we manage to save nothing else. (Our plan has us saving enough to cover school as he goes along.)

This isn’t a major milestone. It’s just something I realized during the day that removed a little bit of stress and worry. And isn’t that the point?