Death by Budget

This budget is going to be the death of me...I'm telling you. This thing is tough, not to mention the fact that I'm trying to eat on a minimalist grocery budget. I suppose the first step to actually conquering the skill of budgeting is to track your expenses, so I'm being conscious of every penny I've spent since Friday.

Let's see:

• $30 ATM withdrawal (went to a tip for the bartender at boyfriend's birthday & pizza Sunday)
• $30 Gas for boyfriend's car when I drove it to Towson
• $3.17 McDonalds breakfast and medium coffee
• $33.15 Washington Gas bill (of which my roommate owes me $3 or so...should I get it back?)

Not too shabby...But that's also about $100 in a weekend...YIKES! Money sure does disappear quickly. Barf!

Still no update on the grocery budget, I stayed with boyfriend and he bought dinner. YAY! I also saved $3.35 in Metro fare because he came and got me from work. YAY again for fabulous boyfriend, he's the best ever. So that leaves groceries for Wed-Mon on $25, yeah, I think I can swing that. Especially since I still have some random tidbits of food left at my apartment, that I have yet to eat. I guess this is what Dave Ramsey means by a "beans and hotdog" diet. I think that's what he uses...I know he says beans.

This week is restaurant week in DC, so I already know I'll be spending at least $30 for dinner because I have reservations with friends. That's not too bad...but no more! Unless I go with boyfriend, in which case, he'll pay (hehe). So that's another $30 that I'm already committing to spend. So I've spent about $130 up to this point and a week and a half to go!!

This thing is busted already :-/