Our total income for October was $8,252.44. In addition to our regular paychecks, we received $1,050 for our new baby. We also sold some items on craigslist for $30, a $50 Chase credit card cash back reward, and earned $26.40 in interest income from our online savings account.
We spent a total of $7,346.87 in October. We actually spent close to budget, if you subtract out $1,845 for cord blood banking and a final $400 payment to our doula. After deducting these one-time expenses, our total expenses were only $5,101.87. This makes me feel a little better about keeping our regular expenses down in October.
November should be another good income month since I receive a 3rd “extra” paycheck. We’ll try to get most of our Christmas shopping done in November, which will inflate our expenses somewhat, but no other large expenses are planned in November.
2 comments:
Hi there!
Many thanks for open and honest discussion. This is a rare treat.
Could I possibly raise an improvement suggestion - if you could make you budget figures slightly larger, to improve readability?
The other things we did with the our budget is to putting together categories - i.e. clothes, food, child, etc.. : -)
Good luck and wish you to have a happy thanks giving!
Thank you for the feedback, Financial Independence. While clicking on the image does make it larger, I realize that it is still lacking in terms of legibility. I will see what can be done to improve it. Thanks for following our blog.
-1MansMoney
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