Stop wasting money

unfortunately today can’t be… :(, but that’s OK

...and spent a bit more money than I planned, although was still relatively cheap… (coulda been worse!)

have lunch packed for tomorrow @ work, and will take some almonds and a banana as a healthy snack, plus still trying to avoid buying coffee and drinking tea from my own stash of teabags instead

But I really want to get some focus back on this one…

made insanely delicious red beans and rice dish, bought all the ingredients (excluding rice and spice that I already had on hand…)

made enough two of us to eat a good sized dinner, plus leftovers for lunch tomorrow

(makes up for the fact that we went out with friends yesterday and spent a little more than planned – but had fun, you have to do that once in awhile…)

Woohoo, took leftovers for lunch (which was way tastier than anything the cafeteria sells), and drank green tea from tea bags I already had – no starbucks today!! Hopefully I can keep this up, I’m aiming for 2 days a week and will see how it goes from there…

Wow! Hadn’t done that in nearly 3 months. It took about 3 hours and is a really good reminder of why it should be done regularly. Even with all the automatic rules, sifting through and applying the categories plus seeing what I’m spending – not fun!!

The aim now is to try to do it weekly, so it doesn’t get out of hand again, AND I get to remind myself of how the little things add up…

Coffee and lunches at work are really adding up…

Added this to my list and moved it right to the top so I see more….

Figuring this one will also help move along some of the other things on my list as well…

Going back to the mall tomorrow to return $45 worth of stuff – it’s not a lot, but it’s a start.