As of right now, I am about $250.00 over budget for the first part of the month. On Friday we get paid and I also have some unexpected income coming in so I am praying we will be able to break even and end March in the black.
Why are we over budget? Well most of it was stress spending. I was just overwhelmed with the conversation I had to have with DD2 (plus the follow-up meeting with her social worker), ‘The talk’ with MIL, issues surrounding DS2 and then we had a lice outbreak.
Yes, lice. It was awful! Both DW and I took the day off on Monday and spent the entire day cleaning heads, blankets, pillows, stuffed animals and everything else we could get our hands on. The Lice accounted for about $75.00 of our overspending.
I am just in a funk this month and it is really effecting my spending. My insomnia is kicking my butt and it leaves me anxious and agitated throughout the day. And then my mind whispers to me “One Starbucks isn’t going to hurt the budget.” And then “You are really stressed out, you family deserves a nice meal you didn’t budget for.”
DW is super supportive and keeps asking me what she can do to help me snap out of this, but I don’t even know. She told me I should just spend a few days at my Little Sister’s house to get away from the stress but the guilt of leaving DW and the kids plus the amount of work that wouldn’t get done in my absence would negate any stress relief the break would give me.
What do you do when you get into a funk?
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