Our first day on the budget went pretty well!

DH was going to use part of his weekly eating-out budget for lunch today, but he ended up working with his boss all day and he bought DH's lunch. Pretty cool, wish he would do that every day!

Also, we almost caved to temptation (I know, already!). Right before we started this budgeting process, we had purchased a video game for DH. I'm way worse than him when it comes to stuff like that, because I always want him to have it. There is a computer game that I kind of wanted too, but it was another $50 and I just didn't want to do that at the same time. DH almost had me talked into it, because I haven't had a new game in years, and those type of games I can literally play for years.

Anyway, I mentioned it tonight and DH wanted to go get it for me. He felt guilty because he had his game and is enjoying it, but I am kinda stuck here reading Dave Ramsey or doing laundry on my week off of work. I had almost rationalized it in my mind, that we would use the gift cards we had left over and therefore it wouldn't be coming out of the bank account so it wouldn't really count. But, my conscience struck and I realized that it probably wouldn't play on my laptop anyway. I've had it since my freshman year of college (about 5-6 years now), which is kind of old for a computer. DH says it probably would, but I don't want to chance it and spend the money.

So... temptation averted. In total today, we spent $1.06 on a Redbox rented movie. DH was about to pay $4 to download one off his Playstation, but it was his idea to go to Redbox instead. I cooked spaghetti for dinner and made some sweet tea to go with it, and we had a nice, cheap evening together.

Other things I got done today (because I wasn't playing a computer game, lol)... made an eye doctor appointment for the week after next, called my old eye doctor to get them to fax my prescription info to the new place (hopefully with that I can order contacts before my insurance resets and get this years coverage in), made an appointment for the gas company to come out and turn our gas on (it's gettin a little chilly), checked the balance of some older gift cards (Starbucks & Walmart), transferred the $100 we had talked about from our checking account to our Emergency Fund, and started on cleaning the bathrooms.

DH put air in my flat tire, so hopefully I can get my "out and about" stuff done tomorrow. If we can hold off until Saturday, DH could go with me to get the new tire we need. That would just leave me with Driver's License, Social Security Card, and Registration tomorrow, Insurance Agent & Gas Company on Friday.

I'm getting a bit nervous about work. Seems like whenever I'm gone for a few days something weird or bad happens. There are a few people there who don't like me, even though they are very nice to my face, and I know they'd jump on any chance to boot me out. It's a shame that I can't even really relax on my vacation time for worrying about what's going to happen when I go back. Sheesh.

On a different note, I found the perfect Christmas gift for one of DH's sisters online. She's a big Paula Deen fan, and I found a couple of cute wall plaques with quotes from Paula Deen for like $9 plus $4 shipping. That is $13 compared to the $10 we had budgeted for her gift, but we can spend less on our "work" gifts if we need to. I'm not even sure we need to take candy or anything to work, but I didn't want to be unprepared in case people do. Plus, I know she would absolutely LOVE it and we could get it out of the way now. Just gotta convince DH of its greatness, hehe.

That's all for now I suppose. I'm off to get the deposit slip & DH's paycheck ready for him to take with him tomorrow, so I know it gets deposited! He also needs to get out the cash we had talked about for Christmas shopping money.

Then back to laundry & organizing!