Yep, I failed my challenge again this month. On Thursday evening we had $183.75 left for the month. Then I paid a $133.00 electric bill. Then we went grocery shopping and spent $65.00. Well, I take that back. When looking at my grocery receipts I saw that they charged us twice for the same watermelon, so we will be getting $5 of that grocery bill back next time we are at that particular store (another reminder to check those receipts!). It still means that those two purchases alone brought us $14.25 over budget. Then my husband bought some sneakers that he desperately needed (seriously, his other ones are falling apart!) so that was another $40 over budget. Looks like right now we are around $1,254.25. I don't foresee much shopping for the next three days so we are still under what we were in June when we attempted this budget (we went over about $150 that month). I'm okay with that. I'm actually impressed with it. This challenge was for myself and I came pretty darn near to making the goal. *pats self on back* 
I think you did a good job! Will you be doing a budget challenge for Sept also?
ReplyDeleteI don't think you failed at all. You just did not reach your goal this month, that's all. You came pretty darn close tho! I think that your budget should be able to be adjusted for insane weather so you don't have to count the elecetric bill. LOL
ReplyDeleteI am afraid to see what my electric bill will be this month becaue we have had several days where my air was on from about 7am to 7 pm and ran non stop. I am so NOT a fan of summer heat!
I hope that you will attempt this again for September as you were SO close!
Yeah! Still very impressive!
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Our worst bill this year for electric was 435$. Yep it's florida we live in a mobile home and we hever have our air below 78. Most of the time 79 or 80 WTF!
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