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March Budget: Good news, bad news.

// March 31st, 2010 // Budget, Money Matters

First, the bad news. I’m just going to get that out of the way like ripping off a band-aid. We did a terrible job with our budget this month. We were way over in automotive (new tires) and way over in “allowance” (night at a B&B, dinners out, highlights for my hair). I can’t really fault myself for the tires, because we had to have those. As for the overnight getaway and my hair, I’m not really going to fault myself for that, either, because . . . well, because I don’t want to. However, those things alone weren’t all that did it, so I do know that we need to re-focus and pay more attention to our spending.

The good news is that I knocked nearly $100 MORE dollars off of our grocery budget. For the first time in over a year, our grocery spending for the month was under $300. That seems much more reasonable to me than the $700/month we averaged in 2009. Good grief.

I’m excited to see what April holds in store.