June Challenge Update
ACHIEVEMENTS:
So I’m half way through the June Challenge that I started this month. I’m really, really happy with how it’s all going. We’ve only eaten out twice this month, and both times we spent our spending money- none of our savings. In totally I think we’ve spent about $20 on takeaway.
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STRUGGLES:
The hardest thing for me has being going without my diet coke! And the fact that we keep seeing really nice resturaunts that we want to go to! We’re holding out till July though!
GOAL PROGRESS:
One of the goals of this challenge was to pay off our only credit card. It was $3500, and we used it to pay for our European holiday we’re going on in October. Two weeks in and we’ve paid it all off, which is FANTASTIC news for us. This has really spured us on to keep going too! We did up a budget of all the ‘extras’ we want to do on our tour, and extra expenses, as well as spending money, and have made a new goal. We want $6000 to take away with us to cover everything, and have a stack of spending money (this holday just keeps getting more and more expensive! I will let you know a bit more about what we’re doing later…).
THINGS THAT HAVE HELPED:
Because we’ve made this commitment to not eating out, we’ve decided that we don’t even have the option to eat out. Having this mindset has been EXTREMEMLY helpful, because there have been quite a few nights when I was not up to cooking dinner and it would have been easier to just eat take-out. If we don’t have time to cook dinner, then we’ve decided that we’re better off going without dinner at all. We haven’t had to do this yet, but we have had a few nights of an egg on toast, or a toasted sandwhich eaten on our way out the door!
Cup-a-soups have been our lunch time saviours. We have a bit of a stash in my draw at work, so any days when we would have normally had takeaway for lunch we have had those!
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If you’re doing the June Challenge with me, how it’s going so far for you??
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Carmy
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kim
