I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!I did get my Google/AdSense payment this week so I added that into the regular budget. 10% of that went to the tithe and the rest to the Emergency Fund. I did buy some garden stuff with the Citi card, but the rest of that was monthly charges for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Sirius Satellite for the van (that includes the up to date GPS information), and Ting (our cell phone service).
I know I'm not meant to be using that card for anything but the subscriptions, but I did. And I'll be transparent about it, because that is what this blog is about. The seed catalogues online are selling out already and I didn't want to wait until today. I'm glad I didn't, or I would have missed out on the onion plant variety I wanted, the thornless blackberry plants, and multiple varieties of seeds that are very hard to get. As of today they were sold out. I checked. I have made all of my seed orders now. I will still have to order the seed potatoes I want, but if I miss out on those I'll just get some locally of a different variety. The shipping will get you on the seed potatoes, because 25 pounds is heavy to ship, so I probably won't order those until next payday, but on my debit card this time.
$281.47 Tithe
_400.00 Grocery Envelope
__75.00 Household Envelope
_556.56 Autopays/Citi
__71.99 Life Insurance--DH
__60.46 Life Insruance--Me
_300.00 Taxes Fund
_100.00 Spending Money--Adults
__90.00 Allowances--Kids
_479.25 Emergency Fund
_100.00 Car Maintenance Envelope
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2814.73 Total Money Out
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