'Our family's budget shrunk by more than half, meaning my husband and I needed to get creative.'
to be both a caretaker for my parents and my children. As a result, our family's budget shrunk by more than half, meaning my husband and I needed to get creative about how we were going to make one income stretch over a family of four. What, and our sanity, were planned weekly meetings to discuss where each and every dollar was being spent.
Since we didn't have a lot of money, we needed to account for all of it. My husband created an Excel spread sheet to. He input all of the different categories we would go through per month. Aside from the usual — think gas, mortgage, groceries, cell phones — we had to pencil in every little expense. Diapers, formula, new clothes for a growing baby, and more. The list grew long, but with the help of these weekly meetings, our spending stayed steady.
My husband is a planner by nature, so it worked for his brain if we had our weekly meeting on the same evening each week. Sure, once in a while we had to adjust it, but we typically tried to have them on Sunday evenings, just in time to kick-start our week. From here, we'd nuzzle into the couch together: me, my husband, and our archaic laptop.
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