After a week of living on the jars we are completely
hooked. It does take some thinking
before you leave the house in the morning.
“Am I going to be spending money today?
On what? How much?” You really become responsible for where your
money goes, and there is less chance of frittering away all your hard earned
cash on senseless things. Living on a
cash budget doesn’t completely kill impulse buying but it does put it into a
pretty deep coma.
After a week of spending cash only this is what our jars
look like:
Transportation: $19.50
Food: $16.45
Entertainment: $0.00
Clothes/Gifts: $10.00
Everything else: $23.00
You may notice the only empty jar is the one for
Entertainment (there may have been some change left that we misplaced), this
includes eating out. This is one area of
budgeting we have always had trouble with, usually we overspend. But running out of money this time means we
had to stop spending. Hello victory! Since the majority of it goes to fast food we
don’t feel all that great about it, bad for the budget and the belly. The expression “if you fail to plan, you plan
to fail” pretty much sums up why we end up spending so much money eating on the
go. Packing a lunch and snacks means you
get to eat healthier and cheaper too. I
have been trying to build a repertoire of homemade “fast food” lunches to make
this simpler. In a future post I’ll list
a few of the ideas I’ve come up with.
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