Life in General

This week has been productive so far. The weather has been super nice, so I've been trying to catch up on the laundry while I can stil hang it outside. And I'm finally getting around to finishing up my garden for the year. I just have to add the compost and plant the garlic, then I'm done until the spring.

Yesterday we were able to put a huge payment toward the business debt. It felt really good to put a big downward line on my graph. Brent's business is going to slow down some now, so it may be the last big payment for a while. But we're still putting all of my income towards the loan, which amounts to almost double what our regular monthly payments are.

I restructured our budget a little - now by week. What we had been doing before is not paying attention to the weekly spendings, only the monthly spendings. Then by the time each check came, we were close to over extending ourselves. So I got a piece of paper and figured out all the regular weekly stuff we have to buy and subtracted it from our weekly income. It looked like this:
Income
- tithe
- car payment
- groceries
- gas money
- allowance
- bill budget
- Sunday eating out
= $30

So after all the stuff we need, we have $30 left for the week on whatever else comes up (this week was cat food). I thought that was a fair amount, and now I feel a little more in control of things.

I suppose I should get back to work......