Life on a Budget

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post from Dave Ramsey's blog, I guess there was some conversations taking place on his Facebook page, basically it was "You know you are on a budget when...".  Reading through those comments I was cracking up, because most of them were true to me and my family!  So I decided to make my own list of "You know you are on a budget when..."  So here it is

You Know You are On A Budget When...

1)  Asked if you have seen the latest movie you and your hubby look at each other and state, "What IS the latest movie??" or "What is a theater??"  Since its been about 9 months since have been to one!

2)  Redbox is your best friend!  Because you have a $5 a month budget for movie rentals and that lets you rent one move a weekend!!

3)  You cringe when the grandparents buy the "cheap junk" toys instead of something that is really needed or useful!

4)  Goodwill and garage sales are your new shopping mall!

5)  You make your kids buy their own Halloween costumes! (Which by the way, drastically changed what they wanted to be!)

6)  You refill the bathroom soap dispenser with half soap and half water so it lasts longer!

7)  Walking down the laundry isle at the grocery store to buy your one box of super washing soda (for the homemade laundry soap that costs a total of about $3 per batch) and you think "Suckers" when others are picking up their $15 bottle of Tide!

8)  You get excited when hubby's shirt get holes because that means more "paper towels"!

9)  Every time you put a cloth diaper on the baby you think, that's $.15 saved!

10)  When everything in your cart says "Great Value" on it!


Those are my top ten!  Quite frankly living on a budget is REALLY hard especially when the budget is really tight!  BUT its so worth the effort to know that we will soon be living a debt free life!

On my blog I have posted a few of the ways my family lives frugally.  You can check out my homemade laundry soap recipe here.