We decided that the first move in our new game was to start living within our means: so we could latter move to living beneath our means. So we took all our credit cards and put them away. In fact I was going to go to Walmart and charge the food I thought we needed. I did not go to Walmart I went home instead and put all our cards away. I had under $20 in my wallet, so we decided that that had to last until my husband’s check came in in a few days.
We sat down and decided what we absolutely had to have between now and when he got his check. We decided all we really had to have was food items that totaled a little over $5 which I had in cash.
We had planned on going snowmobiling that weekend but postponed it until the next weekend when we could use cash. When my husband’s check came I cashed it, taking half out in cash and putting the rest in our checking account because I like to keep $200 padding in our checking account.
I spent most of the cash on food, and gas shopping from a list and only buying what we needed to eat healthy for that week. The week went by very smoothly and I still had a little cash in my wallet from when this journey began just in case. Ok fast forward a week.
Phase one
March 14th, 2008 at 02:16 pm
March 16th, 2008 at 01:18 am 1205630310
Good for you for getting rid of the cc out of our wallet.
March 16th, 2008 at 05:51 pm 1205689907
i only had one cc in my wallet and took that out for now anyway.