Another payday with short paychecks.
(Next week will be golden as neither DH nor I had short days this week.)
But, yeah, $206 less income this week than what I budget/estimate/plan/project for.
I have $60 of cat care cash that I was planning to put toward a cc.
In fact, this week I decided to make this particular card my main focus and commit any *extra* to its payoff no matter what.
Now, I either need to stick to that plan OR use that $60 cash to help cover the usual expenses. No matter which option I am still going to have to transfer some from savings to cover outgoing bills.
It is feeling very one step forward; two steps back.
& I was bad this week...
I don't know if it was the nice weather making me lazy, or the "special" time of the month, or the feelings of stress over weeks of lower income, or some sadness/reality over unexpected deaths (there was a horrific car crash where a pickup truck crushed a car all the way to the front seats. Killing two women - mother/daughter. Happened on a road I frequently drive.) Sicily, the weird missing plane and some other upsetting (child abuse) news stories..
But I ate lunch out four days and as a family we ate dinner out once and had fast food dinner once.
$30 - lunches out
$46 - dinner out
$21 - family fast food
And I completely feel like I am shooting myself in the foot - while taking those two steps back!
Discouraged.
End of the Week & I Was Bad
March 22nd, 2014 at 04:40 am
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CCfree - Nope, not a usual thing. And yes it *hurts* to use savings.
Joan & FT - I hear you on un-plugging the news. Mostly I don't let it get me down, but sometimes it is really upsetting and hard to forget how awful humans can be.