I'm pretty pleased with the last week, spending-wise! I only bought one song on iTunes; all other spending was on pre-scheduled bills. It's not particularly fun to restrict spending and restrict food intake at the same time, but I'm doing ok. Last weekend wasn't great eating-wise, but I threw out the rest of the birthday cake yesterday and had a salad for dinner!
Yesterday's batch cooking included baked tofu, an enchilada casserole, and Thai cauliflower chickpea soup. I have a lot of salad greens to eat too.
Since I was feeling a little miserable last weekend about my self-imposed double restriction, I refocused my savings goal to save a total of $5000 this year. A solid goal may help me stay focused, rather than the ubiquitous bigger emergency fund, buying a car (someday soon), buying a house (preferably before I'm 50). My first benchmark for this year is $4000 in my emergency fund. Should be there by the end of July if all goes as planned.
Happy Monday!
nearly a no spend week
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I find eating less and better is often a daily struggle. Hang in there! Good savings goals!
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snafu - Socially, not much. Most social things seem to revolve around spending money or eating out. Most of my friends have young kids, too, so no time. I'm hoping my social life might pick back up again in 10 years or so when the kids are older.
February 15th, 2017 at 03:41 am 1487130081
Up til today I was doing pretty well with my food choices. We won't talk about today.
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