I would be really embarrassed for anyone to know what I spend on beauty/maintenance. And the older I get, the higher the number gets. Last week, I was giving serious consideration to eyelash extensions (I still haven't ruled it out).
I will never post my budget. EVER! I don't need to hear things like, "$100/month on two jars of lotion? You can cut that back."
Update: I put our Hulu subscription on hold for 10 weeks. Which means I won't be billed again until December because I am already paid for the next month.
In related news, The Mindy Project returns 10/4, so I might go back sooner than than I had planned.
I'm a fool! I need to do this during each TMP hiatus. It's the only thing I watch on there.
Update: I put our Hulu subscription on hold for 10 weeks. Which means I won't be billed again until December because I am already paid for the next month.
In related news, The Mindy Project returns 10/4, so I might go back sooner than than I had planned.
I'm a fool! I need to do this during each TMP hiatus. It's the only thing I watch on there.
Me too - that's why I figured it was best to put it on hold.
And then come to find out my one coworker whose wife had a baby one month after baby roo was born said he/they haven't paid the hospital bills yet. We paid for DD (yay! We own her!)
Post by mainelyfoolish on Aug 26, 2016 7:54:18 GMT -5
Signing in to join the crowd. We have an expensive DirecTv package because the only thing my DH likes to watch on tv is F1 and LMS racing. My kids have too many clothes and toys and not enough money in their college funds. Sometimes I throw away vegetables from our CSA because they rot before I can eat them all and/or figure out what to cook with them. Our house with a 30 year mortgage will be paid off the year after we retire because we could not afford this house with a 15 year mortgage.
Well, I thought we were doing awesome and I was all ready to come in here and say the only real things would be that we have cable and no plans to cancel and I am STILL hoarding cash even though I know better and made a whole thread about it...
And then I started doing month-end stuff last night and reconciling some raise and bonus money and realized somehow I have not really accounted for waaay more money than I thought, so I might need to actually look at budgets and my finances a bit more closely than I thought. Apparently it's quite easy to think you run a tight ship when you budget for $X total per month but you actually spend $X+ $2,400. Eek!
About the only MM thing we do at the moment is we're putting a ton into retirement and our cars are paid with no plans to buy another for at least 6 years and we put the equivalent of a car payment into a car savings each month.
We don't budget. We have DirecTV and nice internet (although I negotiated a sweet 2 year deal). We have prime (but I think given we both work it's needed b/c we just can't get to stores.) We received a six figure gift and built a custom home instead of buying something and having a smaller mortgage. (Although I told DH we're never moving again until E is out of school.)
Oh wait, I do have an automatic deduction into savings each paycheck.
Our PITI and HOA is 43% of our take home right now because of my paycut.
I will never get rid of cable if I have the choice. We lived with out cable for 2 years (before streaming was a thing) and it was the worst! I think it would be easier now, but why would I punish myself again? Lol
H buys cars/motorcycles like he changes underwear.
In the past decade I have bought 3 new cars new cars for myself. Not used, and only one was because it got totaled, the other two were just because I wanted them.
I alternate between being financially savvy and completely wasting money on conveniences or overpriced and unnecessary items. It all balances out, I suppose!