The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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3rd Quarter Budget Review

At the end of every quarter, I take a look at our actual spending as compared to what I budgeted at the end of last year. I don’t panic as long as there has been money to pay for everything and we aren’t raiding savings on a continual basis to pay for things, but, especially as the year winds down, I like to have an idea of what changes I need to make to the budgetread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #28

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $46.12 Gas Car Thursday $42.20 Seafood City Groceries $19.38 Dinner Eating Out $5.92 Petsmart Pets Saturday ~$45.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $19.56 Safeway Groceries $30.61 Mud Bay Pets Finally, down to under $200 spent this week. I’m not certain about how much I spend on Saturday because I seem to have lost the receipt and the debit hasn’t posted online yet, but I’m pretty certain I estimated high. It’s been a nice,read more…