Andrea's Frugal Home

Wow, it's been SIX months......

......since I have blogged!  A lot of things have happened in six months, so I'll try to remember some of them and not bore you with ALL of the little mudane details....LOL.

Well, first things first.  I had to let go of the finances and let my husband take control.  I was doing horribly with the spending and not leaving enough $ to pay the monthly bills.  Now I get an allowance of $20 per week and even with that, I am not good at holding onto it.  I usually end up "eating" my money away because I like eating out.  I made some lasagna this weekend though and have some things to take for lunch next week, so my goal is to only spend half of that and save the other half for paying off bills, investing, or whatever else we need to do.  It would be nice to have the $ to go to the renaissance festival or hang out at greenfield village as a mini-vacation.  So, anyway, that is my goal.  To only spend HALF of my allowance!!!!

Second, Ken (DH) got a job!  He has only been there for about 3 weeks and is not sure how he will be able to handle 12 credits at school plus a FT job in the fall, but we are taking the money while he is working.  Unfortunately, we ran up one of our credit cards recently, so all of that $ he has made this month will be going towards paying that off.  We also had to have our garage re-sided because one of our negihbors called the city on us.  It WAS an eyesore.  So, anyway, we had to use about 1/2 of our savings on that and are going to build that fund back up before we do anyting else.  Ken has been doing pretty good with the money (better than me), and hopefully we will actually see some progress soon.  We seemed to be doing better with the spending before Ken got this job.  Hmmm.  We'll have to see how everything goes.

Third, my mom and grandma aren't doing so well, so I've been feeling bad about that.  My mom has colon cancer and has to undergo chemo treatments again.  My grandma is now in a therapy nursing home and it breaks my heart to see her there.  She is doing pretty good for the most part though.  She does her exercises and everything they ask her to do (well, mostly).

We still owe my parents a LOT of money, and I don't know if my mom will live long enough to see us pay it all back.  Her health isn't all that great right now.  We have started sending them a certain amount automatically each month just as a show of good faith, but I know it's not enough.  We are really in a pickle, you might say.....it seemed like we were trying to live more frugally when Ken wasn't working.  He will probably resign when school starts because we have been eating our money away with carryout and eating out.  It seems like the busier we are, the more we spend. 

Anyway, all is not bad here....I finished 2 more classes over the summer and I don't have to go back to school until September 24th.  I am going to be in school until 2010, so I need to figure something out with our eating and food. 

Well, that's about all I can think of for now....I've missed blogging!  I will try to be more faithful because I could really use working on some goals.  Somehow blogging keeps me accountble.

Until next time,

Andrea

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{ 11:55, 2007-Aug-26 } { Posted by Marie78 }

It's nice to see you back :). Good luck with your spending, I am sorry your mom is sick (hugs). I know what you mean when you say it seemed easier to budget before your Dh was bringing in more money. I felt like it was easier to budget with less money too, I think it's a mind set. I am not making much more money per month, but I see extra money and think I can spend it as I want to.