End of Week 3

Having been relying completely on cash for 3 weeks now I can honestly say it isn’t that difficult.  The benefits far outweigh the challenges.

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

Transportation: $88.49

Food: $37.83

Entertainment: $8.36

Clothes/Gifts: $30.00

Everything else: $23.00

Still having cash in all the jars is such a victory.  I love that we have more left in the Entertainment jar than we did last week.  It is like we are really getting this and might be able to wean ourselves completely off the fast food lunches.  Before I could be lazy about making lunch in the morning thinking; “We don’t have the time, we’ll just have to grab something”.  Now thinking; “I don’t want to waste the budget on fast food, I’ll make a quick lunch”.

I have to say yesterday going to Starbucks for a $0.25 tall brewed coffee helped with saving money in the entertainment and eating out sector.  Somehow it tasted oh so much better than a coffee that costs full price.  As a general rule we don’t bother with Starbucks, too easy to walk out of there having spent $6 with not much to show for it, but who could resist a deal like that?