Today marks the first official day of our low spend year. I have been inspired by a couple of books that I have read lately to see if we can spend less. This is actually something that I am quite excited about and I am looking forward to seeing just how far I can stretch the budget.
I am only focusing on household expenses. So food, cleaning products, animal food, etc. The goal for the next 365 days is to spend less than $10 a day. So $3650 over the year.
The only rule I have set for myself is that I can’t use the $10 from days in advance but I can save leftover money for days that come in under $10 to use in the future.
To give an idea on what we would normally spend I roughly worked out it would be around $18,000 if we were to include coffees and alcohol in the budget. Though lately we have been using the coffee machine at home and not purchasing coffees. We have both cut down the alcohol consumption too and we are kicking the year off with dry July .
How do I feel about this? Excited, daunted, looking forward to seeing where our creativity takes us.
Feel free to share your cheap meal ideas….
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