June 2008 Budget Update
Woohoo! We only spent $290 on groceries/restaurants so far this month and we are already half way through the month. That is $100 less than what we are aiming for at the mid month (our budget is $800/month). Here’s the budget screen-shot from our Mint account:
The numbers on the right under the column heading “100% budget over?” (which is a ridiculous name for a column, by the way) are based on our actual spending from the time at which we started tracking our spending on Mint. That’s why we are aiming for $800 a month on groceries and restaurants combined but the budget column has $1040 listed. I could change it, I think, so that the budget column reflects a budget amount that I set, but I kind of like to see how far below our previous spending we are.
The hilarious part is, of course, that our entertainment spending is at $30. Holy cow! I guess food has been our entertainment. 
Since we have two little kids and pretty much work and take care of them 24-7 we do nothing for entertainment other than watch an occasional movie. We have been known to splurge every other year on super-fancy vacations by ourselves (kids with grandma) so perhaps that makes up for the embarrassing entertainment budget somewhat!
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