First off, I can’t believe it’s been over 200 days since I started this blog.  Wow.  I feel like I don’t have a whole lot to show for it, and mostly because I still have more debt than when I started it thanks to a bunch of spending we did during the holidays.  Stupid stupid stupid.

At any rate, we were out of town this weekend until late last night, and now I’m not completely caught up on my budget spreadsheet like I thought I would be.  Amazing how getting home 6 hours later than you planned can really put a dent in your plans isn’t it?

On the financial side of things, we did two things completely wrong:

1. We didn’t have an envelope planned for our out of town trip.  It’s accounted for in the budget spreadsheet, but we ended up using the debit card from our checking account instead of an envelope.
2. Since we didn’t use an envelope, we ended up spending WAY more than we wanted to.  Instead of the allocated $60 for gas and maybe a lunch or two, we ended up spending well over $100.  Probably more than twice what we budgeted.  Being in a larger city with more available to you must play mind tricks on your reasoning.  If we’d only had the cash we may not have let ourselves do that.

Oh well, like I said on my header’s blog description, I’m here to share good or bad.  So there’s the bad.  Time to get organized today so that we don’t let this happen again on our next trip.