ohhhhhh, its been awhile

Okay, it has been awhile since I have been here. LIFE HAPPENED!!! So with a renewed need to save and keep life simple and in as much order, I today have chose to start fresh. Back to menu planning, couponing, and yes, the big B word ---budgeting. It is so easy to fall off the wagon to do all this even though it is not to complicated, just takes time to sit down and get it done. So here we go this is my week to reorganize. I have continue to follow many of my favorite blogs and found some new things. So here is my plan.....
---$70 per week for groceries
---Thursday- grocery shopping
---$120 additional per month amount for great deals to stock up in the pantry
---trying to see how many NO SPEND days I can get out of each week
---Wednesday-back to menu planning and sticking to it
---making a plan to keep track of what I have stocked up and rotating the dates.
---daily reminding myself the purpose for this--paying for everything in cash, making it to my 5 year plan of begin debt free--this includes our house, learning to cook more homemade items, and finally leaving below our means.
So thats the plan for now!!!!

New Year

Well it has been almost 2 month since I have blogged. Every year I vow to stay focused and unstressed as the holidays arrive but again this year I found myself busy and yes, stressed. Well today is New Years day and it is time to get back on track. This come year we are hoping to get our addition on our house started, so the purse strings will be tightened ALOT. I have planned to change my weekly budget amount to allow a little more wiggle room so I can do some stocking up OR might I say REstocking up. I will say that one great thing about have a good stock pile allowed me to need to do very little grocery shopping over the holiday months. I will be changing my weekly amount to $70 however this week I will only be buying a few things and will be working on new menu and stock up list through the week.