All work and no play not only sticks but is pretty boring. On my get healthy journey I normally buy myself a new outfit and try to keep the cost at around $20. Yes I can get pants, shirt and a cute pair of flats for $20 if I try hard enough. Same goes with sticking to your budget. There should be more of a reward than seeing your bank account go up. Unless that is reward enough for you. The way you choose to reward your hard work is up to you. When Mr Ladybug and I were first married we did not have any savings. In fact if we paid all our bills and had $50 left over for the month we usually celebrated and went out to eat. Now if we had only $50 left at the end of the month we would be totally freaking out and trying to sell our organs on craislist or something. Mainly because we learned that emergencies happen like a broken appliance and if you have to purchase one with on credit it can take a long time to pay it off. A week after we bought our home back in 1995 the fridge quit working. We did not have the money to replace it and bought one on credit at Montgomery Wards. I dont want to even think about how much that purchase really cost us. The fridge did last us 22 years. When it finally quit on us I had a friend who knew someone selling one for $50 and we bought that. We intend on updating the kitchen in a few years when we have no kids in college and will purchase a new one then.
So I got those coupons from Kroger the other day and Kroger was the last of my stop yesterday. I needed to get the boys favorite almond milk, and grab my free M&Ms. I love having fresh flowers in a vase and they usually last me over a week. I decided instead of getting more cereal that I would get myself some flowers. Whenever I sit at the table it makes me smile and I love all the colors. Sorry I didnt have my curtains open in the picture some sort of utility truck was in front of my house and I didnt think it added to the photo. The flowers were only $5 so I still use $2 towards the almond milk.
I have $85 in my grocery envelope. I am going to definitely come in $100 under my original projected grocery budget which was $650. I will still keep that in my envelope since I plan on starting to purchase and can some meat to make quick and easy dinners this summer when the temps start rising and I want a hot meal in record time.
I said we were going to have spaghetti last night but I decided that chef salads were a better choice to use up some salad fixing from last week so they didnt get composted and some lunch meats we had left over too. Tonight I dont have to cook at all since we are going over to a friends house for dinner. There will be few hostess gift ideas on the blog later.
This cookie is on a salad plate so even though its big its not that big.
The chocolate chip cookie was such a hit the other night that I thought that I would make a peanut butter one last night. It looks good but you will not see any recipe for it until I tweak it a bit. Dont you just hate that when something isnt what you are expecting? Maybe I set my expectations too high. Maybe the blog I got the recipe from didnt grow up with my moms peanut butter cookies and didnt know what a good one tasted like. I remember I love it when she let us make the fork marks in top of them.
I have about $20 left in our entertainment budget for the weekend. I purchased a year digital subscription of our local paper for Mr Ladybug and am giving the kiddos $10 to order pizza for dinner tonight. With the forecast calling for some icky weather Saturday evening into Sunday and then its going to be super cold I dont see us wanting to venture out too far from home after our Kombucha class tomorrow anyway plus we have a few gift cards that are already paid for from previous weeks.
Enjoy your Friday. I am off to get a few things done around the house and then a quick trip to the library and to help my oldest daughter get two of my grand dogs to the vet for their yearly shots.
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