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I am curious... what do you see as your biggest budget busters??



-- Edited by PollyAnna at 00:49, 2008-01-05

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If you notice I suddenly stop posting, it's because you're not allowed to log in from the city of Enoch (I'm crossing my fingers that I'll still have internet access...or I'm not going!).

Really, the only thing I've had to really adjust my budget around is kids. They keep needing things like shoes and dance classes and diapers...and they are inexplicably older, more numerous, and more expensive every year...

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KIDS... yea, definitely budget busters...


-- Edited by PollyAnna at 00:50, 2008-01-05

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After 41 years of marriage and 5 kids (three in college at the same time), I've got the budget mastered.

Hubby and I have a limited amount for fun money (if we want to do something more costly, we save for it). We each get X amount per week we can spend without having to account for it to the other.

The trick? See budget as another word for "limit". "This $$ amount is all we have to spend in this area. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. Not enough? Then somebody needs to learn to live on less or earn the money themselves".

We haven't used a credit card in over 20 years. Paying as you go really hampers free spending.

As for kids, check out garage sales and 2nd hand stores. They may not be the "latest" fashion, but most of them (for girls) aren't modest enough anyway.

I've found that higher priced shoes really do last longer, unless you have a rough and tumble kid that would wear out steel toed shoes.


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Recent Budget busters:
 weddings in far distant places
 airline tickets

One mistake I made last year was that I quit using our airline miles credit card. 

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Yeah I get ya here palmon...

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Bud-get... Is that when you go to the store and buy rose buds for the wife, cuz you went out and bought something expensive? 

Bud-Get for the wife... especially if she's a sucker for flowers! 

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