Quicken lets you run all kinds of charts and graphs. My least favorite one last month has become my most favorite one this month. That is, the blue income line is 20 percent higher than the green expenses line. And mostly, we ended up cutting back on the grocery bill by 60 percent. Yes, it means we had to shop for the usual stuff (cereal, peanut butter, etc.) at Wal-mart after avoiding shopping there for three years. But we still did 90 percent of our shopping at the ever expensive Schnuck's (for fresh fruit and vegetables).
The other good notation was that our eating out was cut almost in half.
The big news, our gas consumption went from filling two cars every week to filling one twice a month and the other once a month. That means we're doing more around the house... not taking as many trips and we're biking or walking more places.
4 comments:
Good for you!
I just don't even want to know where our money is going because it's probably depressing!
And now that fall is coming we have to add preschool and dance lessons to the mix.
Fantastic! Way to go - pretty impressive.
Most of our $ goes to private school and the karate studio. :-) Or at least that's how it seems.
Wow that's great!! This is something I really need to do for us.
Good job!
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