Budgeting....

So I decided to look at my daily spending habits on a typical work day. I'm very bad about stopping at the QT in the morning to get a Monster drink and fruit: $6, Tolls $3, Salad and drink at lunch $7. I figure I'm wasting $300+ a month easily.


So today, I have challenged myself to not spend any money for 3 days. Baby steps. I made a sandwich for breakfast, skipped the Toll, and I brought leftovers for lunch. I have food at my house so I shouldn't need to buy anything until the weekend.


Okay, so the worst part of this....skipping the Toll. Not sure I can keep that up. There are some intersections where the light must be 4-5 minutes long. It took me 30 minutes to get to work instead of 15-20, but for some reason it felt like an hour. I prefer the wind in my hair at 80mph. I'm going to try and keep up the no spending until Friday, but the Tollway may be my friend again next week.


When I look at the big picture, I'm wasting almost $4K a year. We won't even talk about weekend spending. I'm thinking I should have bought stock in Home Depot last year since I've dropped so much there in the past year.

"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."

— William Feather