Ok people...here's the skinny. I just got a new job. Well, a new old job. You see the baby-boomer super rats that make (are still making) horrible decisions about my life have created an environment where a college graduate of mathematics with a service-industry resume gets sucked back into the service industry to avoid starvation. I don't have the bank account to wait for companies to tell me they are liquidating the job I applied for before I get an interview. Yeah, that has happened more than once.
Sob story aside, I am really stoked on my new job. However, it pays the same as the job I had pre-college degree only now I have post-college debt. Bummer.
I have a plan though! One that I can't fully test until October (due to the most amazing event of my life happening Sept 15) but I am excited to see how it goes. The BIG PLAN is this: we have allowed for a $500 grocery budget each month in the past. Food's expensive! Plus, with keeping the budget big, I got to make whatever I wanted and we ate out less. In theory...we still max out our eating out budget every month. So I am going to try out a $200 monthly grocery budget. It would mean some serious planning, knowing what's on sale and in season, and possibly turning into vegetarians at home. I want to keep the eating out budget the same and it will seem like even more of a treat to go out.
Reality has hit and I am not the bigshot I thought I was...yet. And I definitely don't have the bigshot budget I thought I would have. But we're so happy and that's all that counts. An extra $300 a month would go SO far. I'll keep you posted on how we do and if I find any tips and tricks I'll pass them along!
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