May wasn't a good month. There hasn't been any overtime, so not extra money in the budget. It reminds me how tight our budget is without extra income. In May, the amount we spent on Gasoline was getting close to double. For the month of May was only made about $6 more than our lowest income month since we started the Dave Ramsey plan. Overall the budget didn't have much room, and we were only able to pay an extra $293.26 on our debt.
June was a little better. We didn't have any overtime either but, we ended up with 5 paychecks instead of 4. We also took our vacation, which was saved for. This let us have one week of the month where all our gas and dinners were paid with our vacation fund, and help ease our monthly budget. Everything was looking good for the month, till we got home from vacation. We had a tree next to the house loose a large section of limbs. When I was chain sawing it up. I noticed the tree was split down the trunk. The tree needed cut down before it fell on our house. So it ended up costing $800 to get the tree removed. There went some of the extra money we had in the budget. After it was all done and said, for the month of June we paid and extra $1200.79.
It looks like I'm going to get a little overtime next month. We'll need it to get us back on track to be debt free by the end of the year.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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