Not meeting my goals, but still spending a whole lot less!

Thursday, we had to take the cat to the vet, but that falls under medical expenses. Unfortunately, we got bad news and neither of us felt like cooking dinner. I could have pulled out a couple of microwave meals, but instead we did fast food.

Today, I had a baby shower during lunch and it seemed so much easier to order Subway with everyone else in the office than to make my ramen noodles.

The fortunate thing here is that we both have used our "January money" that we pulled out in cash last month for these little indulgences instead of pulling out of our bank accounts.

I did cook dinner tonight at home using some of the boxed stuff in our pantry and we are committed to continue cooking at home for the rest of the month.... except for tomorrow night when we're going out for a friend's birthday, but we had already made an allowance for that.

We are also talking about extending the "no spending" for another month because we have spent a lot less so far this month. Maybe the more we practice, the better we'll get at not buying a bunch of stuff we don't need.