Today is the last day, officially, of the spending freeze. I got a little behind last week on blogging every day so I am combining three days into one. I made a trip to the Salvation Army. They were having a sale on clothes, $1 each except on jeans. Jeans were half off. I bought 3 pairs of jeans for Leo, a sweater for myself and a cape/shawl for Annie. Total was $12. I had never been to the Salvation Army store. I much prefer Goodwill. I might go there next week, if I have time. I usually find really good stuff there for the kids. I am very very happy that we did the spending freeze. We spent very little beyond our bills, groceries and gas. I took a hard look at what we could do to improve and took steps to make things better. Now that we have a firm grip on our spending, the goal is to stay the course. Like I said before, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. In a few months our debt will decrease by paying off our car and soon after our tax debt and then our credit card. ...
Now that we are getting to the end of the month. I thought I would ask my family some questions about the spending freeze. I asked Annabelle: Do you think the spending freeze effected your everyday life? She said, "not really I just didn't get to have pork buns every Friday". Do you think the spending freeze is a good thing? "yes, because we will save money and keep collecting it!" Next month I plan on doing a lot of the same things we did this month. But I can't be on total spending freeze lock down forever. Annie needs new shoes for school. Leo needs school shorts for the warmer weather. And after 8 months I am finally going to get my hair cut and colored. I am so looking forward to that! And, I have a major family project for next month that I need to invest in We are doing a garden! I did one two years ago as a total experiment and we had tons of cucumbers and kale but little else. We dug right into the ground and used only seeds.And the ground here ...