March Budget Update

I did my weekly budget update and review last night. If you remember, at the beginning of the month we took our dog to the vet and it cost us $160. I’m trying to absorb that into our regular discretionary budget since we have so many other expenses this month, mainly our car insurance payments. We’ve done pretty well so far cutting back on spending in order to make budget. Right now we’re $5 under budget in discretionary and I know of only one more expense this month so we should at least be close on that one. We’re a buck or two over budget on restaurants with one work lunch planned this week so we’ll be slightly over there. But our other budget categories gas and household are way under right now and should more than pick up the slack. If we stay diligent, we should be able to end the month in the black. Also helpful is C brought home about $100 more in income this month than I had estimated. I’m hoping we can snowflake most (all) of that to the emergency fund!