I am posting for the first time on Frugal Friday because I actually have something to share this week!
With the cost of groceries and gas rising to unheard of prices, I’ve found that our budget is suffering. Staying within my budget for groceries has been somewhat challenging, but I’ve been learning the art of ‘couponing’ and combining all the wonderful offers with sales to get items we typically use for free or very close to it.
BUT I cannot do much about the gas expense. I have 2 kids and taking our very limited public transportation is not doable. Driving less is also not doable at this point.
We live on a single military income – if you’re a military family you know what that’s like. It’s very little money, but up until now we’ve been making it work with a little money allotted to ‘fun’ each month. We are even managing to pay down our debt. However, with gas prices the way they are, I’m finding it difficult to pay the same amount toward our debt because we are now spending approx. $250 per month on gas………
So, my solution is NO ‘fun’ that costs money for at least a month. Right now we only have $100 per month allocated to ‘fun’, but that’s $100 I can put toward debt since I’m having to reduce the amount I can put toward debt during this gas price struggle.
We still have our small personal allowances we have agreed upon to do with whatever we like, but our actual budget for eating out, etc. will be added to debt for the next month – maybe longer.
Basically, my frugal tip for the day is don’t spend any more money than is absolutely necessary to survive for a while and see how much you can save.
