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. My g
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