I was looking back to try to find the last time I changed the amount in my 'magic' jars and couldn't find it, so it must have been quite awhile ago. Since one of my big eaters is no longer in the house, I thought I would take advantage of this to tweak the jars.
Up til now my jar contents per week were:
Gas - $60
Entertainment - $40
Spending money - $20
Grocery and house hold items - $220
for a total of $340 a week
The only thing I tweaked was my grocery jar, reducing it by $40 a week, to $180. If this works and this is the right amount of money for the cost of grocery items here for three people. This $40 a week (or $160 a month) is being funnelled into the account that makes its way to the US for DSs groceries there.
We shall see if this works. I took my first week's money out earlier this week.
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I'm working on the same thing right now... just double checking a couple of bills and then i'll do my new numbers. With any luck things will stay stable for a while...
Me too! Must be the season I guess. Kazi is thinking about moving out (she's almost 24 now) but I don't think that would make a huge difference in my numbers. We'll see. Hopefully you've got yours worked out but it's easy to adjust if need be.
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