Other Expenses

Today is payday!!

Do you know what I love even more than getting paid?  I love entering those numbers into my budget/spending worksheet. I am such a dork. 

This is the official start of our new budget cycle, so I was able to order some much needed items online.  Pre-sense, I never budgets for ‘other’ items.  I just squeezed them in whenever we had an influx of cash.  This meant that sometimes we didn’t have the money on items we needed and went without.  

One of these items was Dinovite for my dogs.  This stuff is like magic and within weeks my dogs’ hotspots would vanish, their hair would start growing back and chronic ear infections disappeared.  I could only afford a 6 week supply at a time, and low and behold 6 weeks later I couldn’t find the $50.00 to order more so my poor dogs would suffer. 

I can’t even begin to explain the relief it is to have been able to purchase the 6 week supply today. And to know that it is budgeted for me to continue ordering this so they never have to go without.  Eventually I will be at a place where I can order a 90 day supply ($130.00), but I am not quite there yet.

I now don’t need to panic when DS1’s school asks for headphones for a school project.  Family birthday parties don’t make my stomach churn when I think of the expense of birthday gifts.  I can even plan a day at the museum with my Dad and a few of my kids without getting heart palpitations.  Who knew planning ahead can be so empowering.