End of Week 2

Two weeks in and we are still doing great... mostly.  We might have kinda sorta completely blew our budget this past week...

After a week of spending cash only this is what our jars look like:

Transportation: $76.50

Food: $8.52

Entertainment: $3.65

Clothes/Gifts: $20.00

Everything else: $0.00

Again we have money left in all the jars save one; the Everything else jar.  This was because we had to buy dog food for Danger, which cost $46.00 and some cents which was chipped in by the Food jar.  Considering we bought the last bag of food back in March it really doesn't cost that much per month.  But Danger wasn't done spending after getting his dog food.  The weather is gorgeous and warm and it feels so good to walk in the park and the park is so pretty and so completely full of fleas.  Although we didn't see any fleas on Danger and we could have waited 3 weeks until we had enough money in the jar for his treatments chances are not only the dog but also the house would be infested by fleas at that point.  Not worth it when we have money in the bank to cover this.

Because we are only 2 weeks into living on the jars and the money that goes in them needs to accumulate in order to pay for bigger ticket items I'm not going to worry too much about this little hiccup.  It is also a very rare occurrence for us to buy both dog food and flea treatments in the same week.  We have plenty of time to stagger them.  I thought of dragging money out of the other jars to cover it, but then thought this would probably end up with us in the same situation with a different jar a few weeks down the road.

Once Danger was done spending the car decided to take it's turn.  It demanded new brakes and a bearing.  Since we need to keep our car happy and healthy we stole from our California fund and had the necessary repairs done on our little car.  Could be worse, we could have had to put the repairs on credit.

Side note:  Our Transportation jar balance has increased since we put money in it at the start of last week.  This is due to someone chipping in for gas money.  Thought we might need it in transportation for an oil change or car wash.