We’re nearing the end of the month, and I think we’ve done a better job sticking to our budget (it takes practice) than we’ve ever done before.  We had a lot of odd expenses this month–I’ll be posting the details of the budget later–and we were still able to stick to it pretty well.  The [...]

We tried several methods in the past to establishing our monthly budget, but we were never able to stick with it 100%.  It always seemed like something was coming up to bust it.  But the few month I took off from gainful employment really helped set us straight because we were forced to live on [...]