Oh this weekend we spent money. Nothing like the past but we still should have spent nothing instead of what we did.

Bought some used video games for me, some study books for DH and a few more project odds and ends for the house.

We didn't really accomplish much, though DH did make a wooden container for the compost pile.

He has the next two days off so he is getting the car fixed and waiting for the mortar guy today. Hopefully tomorrow he will either work on the house or collect stuff from the apartment. Both are long overdue at this point.

We are still accumulating debt at this point. February will be the last of the double bills and March will be in the all clear but I am more than a little nervous about DH's job hunting. The sooner he finds a new one the better so I can begin to set up a new budget and know what I am working with. We have decided not to hand over control of the finances to him right now because he has too many things on his plate as it is.

I am still keeping all the debt at 0% and trying to slow the drain on money but its difficult with everything up in the air.

So a focus on a few positives. I have gotten us back to eating healthy and taking meals to work. I have a feeling that this week we will see the full force of that because we won't eat supper out (we have food prepared and things to eat).

This is the first time that I have successfully got us to include salads in our meals on a regular basis (we love them but they do take effort). We are back to making our artisan bread on a regular basis and we are back to making the majority of items from scratch. The only thing that concerns me is that we may have to increase the grocery budget because we seem to be spending $100 on each grocery run (1x per week). Course that may just be because we let things get too depleted.

Oh I have also learned how to make chicken broth from scratch which is much simpler than I thought so I can use that as a base for my veggie soup mix which is actually filling. I normally don't eat soup because I want to eat again soon after but this stuff, a mere 2 cups and I can forget about food for 7 hours.

Now that I have the food portion under control, I might start having budget control again. General rule with me is I can only change one bad habit at a time.

Since out to eat food is a large portion of our budget, getting that under control will help our finances immensely. Then I can work on the rest.