We're Bleeding Money

I’m not overly concerned about it. Jeff and I knew that we were going to have to put quite a bit of money in this house to make it our home. It’s just hard for me to spend $600.00 in one day! It was all stuff that we needed and its better that we buy it now, when we have the money, it’s just one of those things that get my heart pounding and my palms sweaty.

I am not complaining one little bit. I love our house. I’m so in love with it that it’s been hard to go to work because all I want to do is work on our house! It’s just hard to go from having maybe two bills a month to 12 or 13, along with gas and food. I know that everyone has to grow up and pay bills, but it was kinda fun to watch our money pile up in our savings account while we were living with Rick and Gloria.

I’m still planning on creating and STICKING to a budget. We won’t be as strict on ourselves as we were when we were saving for our house, but we will be treating our savings account like it’s a bill too, and every month a certain percent of our pay checks will go into that account. It’s my goal to eventually be two steps ahead of the game. So, if something happens, or we need a new roof, we won’t be taking out a loan, we’ll be able to pull the money from our savings. It’s very important to me that I be a grown up in every sense of the word. I would hate for something to happen and have to ask our parents for a loan. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with relying on others for help, especially when there are circumstances beyond your control. But I do think that there should be a Plan B, and the parents should be Plan C, and hopefully, everything would get straightened out before asking for help.