How often do you add up everything you spent for the month? At the end of each month i like to total the amount we spent on eating out, shopping, gas.... Just print out all your bank statements and credit card bills find a bunch of different colored highlighters and start highlighting all your gas purchase with a .... pink highlighter. Highlight all your eating out, or gas station food costs with a green highlighter. Do you drink coffee or soda? Highlight all of those purchases with an orange highlighter.... you get the idea, continue to highlight and then total all the like colors.
This helps keep us in reality and helps motivate us not to spend on as much future waste.
We are trying really hard to not eat out, but it is not going as well as i would like it..... But since you are reading this maybe you can help me be more accountable for my actions. I am going to say right now that for one month... So now thru March 1st we will only eat out 1 time and that is only for our Valentines dinner. Do you want to set this goal with me? We can keep each other motivated and accountable. We could save over $200 this month easy!
This helps keep us in reality and helps motivate us not to spend on as much future waste.
We are trying really hard to not eat out, but it is not going as well as i would like it..... But since you are reading this maybe you can help me be more accountable for my actions. I am going to say right now that for one month... So now thru March 1st we will only eat out 1 time and that is only for our Valentines dinner. Do you want to set this goal with me? We can keep each other motivated and accountable. We could save over $200 this month easy!
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