Live Simple

Simple living is having less without being deprived. Why would you want to keep up with the Joneses? They are carrying tons of debt and fight about money all the time. Better to have less and actually own it.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

End of Week 5


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

Transportation: $25.08
Food: $0.04
Entertainment: $18.68
Clothes/Gifts: $32.38
Everything else: $70.00

This gets easier each week.  When faced with making a cash purchase you ask yourself; “Would I rather have the cash or this item?”  Many times the answer is the cash.  When we were spending on debit it felt like we never walked out of Walmart without spending about $100.  Last night we spent just $2 there.  Also going to the dollar store usually cost us around $20, nowadays we spend a dollar or two to buy whatever we went in to get.  This saves more than just money, we spend way less time wandering around the stores looking at all the other pretty stuff to buy.

Side note: There is more in the Clothes/Gifts jar than the start of the week because I returned something and replaced the money.  

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