Money Monday

Receipt Check-in

Our first Money Monday of March I talked about saving our receipts to truck our spending. So I am here to post my update.

Clothing: $19.50

Household/toiletries: $59.12

Dinner out: $94.54

Hubbies work (meals and needs): $34.91

Grocery: $183.62

Gas: $32.50

Birthday: $20.84

Clothing. James did need some new jammer pants and Ty needed some jeans.

Household includes light bulbs, personal care, diapers, printer ink, and all that kind of stuff.

Dinner out is our bad one always. However we only eat out on the weekends and 30 of this was a dinner out for Elizabeth's birthday. We try to eat out cheaply (I see Thursdays post already!!).

Hubbies work. James is a truck driver. So he travels between here and Idaho. He eats lunch on the road maybe two nights a week. Then there are snacks, gloves and other little items he may need. About $10 of his spending was spent on his Pilot card. It is a rewards card. So really he only spent $25.32.

Gas. We have only filled up our car this month. the Tahoe needs it do that number will go up. :)

Grocery. Thanks to killer coupons and deals I have averaged about $90 a week and most of that was stocking up.

Birthday. Elizabeth turned 6 this month so a party was needed. Party favors were pretty cheep but SO cute. Her gift (ballet tutu and leotard, shoes came out last month) was $14.14.

So there it is. It has been interesting to see where the money goes. I did about three years ago and i remember our dinner out came to almost $400 and our grocery was like $150. Pretty sad!!! We have learned!!