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Busting the Budget

July 16th, 2006 at 01:26 am

Well, it's halfway through the month, and all my bills are scheduled through automatic billpay, and my pantry is stocked, and the gas tank is full, and I should need to spend very little else this month, so I took an assessment.

On the one hand, the news is bad: It looks like I'm going about 20% over budget overall--mostly due to (a) an unexpected vet bill; (b) an unplanned household purchase (see my entry on Thursday); (c) higher electricity expenses (for running the A/C); and (d) higher than planned food expenses. There's a lot of red in the Budget vs. Actual column--that's the bad news.

The good news is that my budget for the month planned to cut expenses significantly from usual since no income is coming in at the moment, and that compared to my "normal" spending, things look good and I'm spending less than usual. It's hard to enact large cuts all at once; hopefully working even harder to be frugal now will pay off with better habits once the income stream resumes in September.

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