This month has gone by way too fast. Unfortunately, the extra money I had been looking forward to is being mostly used to break even. Our budget is STILL out of wack -- mainly groceries and gas.
On paper, I'm trying to be conservative to free up money to pay down some of this stuff, but the reality is that I've got four mouths to feed and two cars that need to go quite a ways every week. One thing we are really trying to do is cook more at home and take leftovers for lunch. I've gotten my lunch routine down to a very small amount a day, but it still isn't in the budget. Our emergency fund is still under funded at the moment as well. All I need to do is get ONE thing paid off to gain some traction.
Fortunately (or not) a big medical bill from a hospital here in town has not arrived yet. I got the EOB from the insurance in May showing we owed around $2000. However, it is almost September and I haven't gotten a bill yet. I'm guessing now that it will show up after quarterly review, or at the end of the year when they do their books. There is an off chance some nice person out there just picked up the tab, but that's being too optimistic I suppose. I honestly expect it to hit right around Christmas :).
Throughout all of this, I'm still going to have maybe 600-800 I can put on the Van. Just need to bite the bullet and get that sucker paid off. If anyone wants to use that fancy donate link above, I'd be very appreciative :)
Until next time...