mamahawkins

I just read about this on a tightwad site and have decided it’s what I’m going to do. Basically, spend one month logging your expenses, and at the end of the month come up with a budget. then somewhere in your house keep envelopes that have cash in them. ONLY use cash from the envelopes to buy the things the envelopes are labeled for (work lunches, entertainment etc etc). That way when you ‘cheat’ and take some out of one to use in another you realize “wow, but that takes money away from the other thing.” I hope this will work for us – nothing else has.

This goes along with my other goal of improving my marriage. Overall I could just be more nice to my husband. good luck to everyone!

I’m going to try and consume more water starting this week. I used to drink about 75 ounces per day, which is healthy for my height/weight but got out of the groove of it.