The $25 Challenge

Dear DC,

Apparently Kyle isn't writing much anymore, so you're stuck with me again.

In our nearly four years of marriage, Kyle and I have always been pretty good about having a budget...not so much with sticking to it. I have a spreadsheet that I created where I input every purchase under each category and the spreadsheet tells us how much money we have left in that category. The problem is that we often completely ignore that total. Whoops.

The little number sometimes (ok, a lot of times) goes into the red....digging into the money we are supposed to be saving/paying off debt with.

These past two weeks have been pretty typical with, as always, the majority of our "rainy day" funds going toward food and eating out. It's not like we even eat that well, we just eat a lot and often.

As a result of these past two weeks of gluttony, we have challenged ourselves to sticking to a $25 budget for the next two weeks. Not just for food, but $25 FOR EVERYTHING!

Fortunately we have a freezer full of food, a half tank of gas and a fairly funded metro card.

Can we do it?

With Cheapskate Love,

Julia