This Past Week

Oh man, oh man. Sticking to this budget seems to be a difficult feat. I LOVE using the envelopes to only use cash! If we could just keep the debit card in our wallets and not ever use it except where allocated in the budget, we would be doing fantastic! It's only been 2 weeks though, we'll get it :)

We've agreed on a current budget but then an unexpected charge from an account that was supposed to have been cancelled has thrown it off so we're trying to get that settled and then we'll be on our way for the second half of April!

We'll also have our first debt in our debt snowball paid off in a month! That's a great feeling! Then we'll be rolling the amount of that payment into the next debt to keep our snowball rolling!



I have put together my coupon binder and it's my current pride and joy. It's a wonderful feeling to flip through all of my organized coupons, ready for their big debut for a great deal!

I have a fantastic zippered binder that I got at Wal-Mart on clearance (zippered for fear of dropping it and coupons flying everywhere), dividers for each category, baseball card holders to put the coupons in, scissors in the front pocket of my nifty zippered binder, a pen, a pencil, and a small calculator. This will now be going shopping with me all the time! I don't cut all of the coupons out by hand though, I have a table cutter so I line up all of the coupons and cut them out several at a time and then file them away.

I have finished reading The Coupon Mom's Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Budget in Half by Stephanie Nelson and I am almost finished reading Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey by the Krazy Coupon Ladies.

I went shopping last night with my mother-in-law at Target and got 2 pairs of baby socks for FREE after I used a coupon as well as 4 packs of 42 count Pampers Kandoo Flushable Wipes for $0.42 each! So I spent about $2 for 4 packs of wipes and 2 pairs of socks! I'm loving this coupon thing!

I had also forgot to mention that we are done with Baby Step 1! We are now on Baby Step 2: The Debt Snowball! We're projecting to be finished with this step 5 years at the latest, 2 1/2 years at the earliest! Can't wait for that financial freedom!