I'm half way through the first month of a real budget. I'm still on budget, and that makes me really happy. It's not exactly the easiest thing, but it's not too difficult either. I sent my budget planner excel to my coworker and fiance, who both said they really like it. I find that I keep wanting to buy books and magazines, that's my vice it seems. I think my groceries budget can be cut in half, might be on the list of things to do for February. Unfortunately, my car is having some problems so I might have to reconfigure my budget entirely. I'm thinking I can change expenses around to afford a car note and better insurance, but I'll get to that if I have to. Hopefully my car will survive until at least May. This is what I'm looking like mid month:
Groceries - $161 left from $200
Wedding Fund - $250 left to save from $300 (contract with location was $50)
Extra - $36 left from $100
The Extra funds have been spent on:
Books - $25.40 (Not bad!)
Going Out - $22.91 (Not bad either!)
Random - $15.49
I'm thinking what we're going to do for our wedding expenses is create a separate joint account that is only used for wedding expenses, clearly. Every month the money we save can be switched to that account and it will create a better way to keep track of the wedding expenses and see exactly where we are at.
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