Into the jars went $160.00 in cash for our variable expenses
for the next week:
Transportation: $52.00
Food: $55.00
Entertainment: $20.00
Clothes/Gifts: $10.00
Everything else: $23.00
Added to the surplus from last week we are looking at:
Transportation: $71.50
Food: $71.45
Entertainment: $20.00
Clothes/Gifts: $20.00
Everything else: $46.00
As you can see my need for nice, neat, round numbers has led
me to up our spending on food so we could withdraw $160.00. My other option was reducing the budget by
$11/week to make it an even $140 but I couldn’t see where we could reduce it further
without being unreasonable. We had money
left in the food jar this week because all we bought was food, when you need to
buy laundry detergent/toilet paper/other household items that money can
disappear real quick.
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