Payday! Today was payday for both the hub and I. His pay was $170 more than budgeted. Mine is normally the same, since I am expempt, but today mine was more too because my job pays us $50 (one time per year) to volunteer. I had forgotten that was coming...of course, after taxes it was only $31, but that brings the extra this week to $201.

I am going to split it and put 1/2 on debt and the other half in household spending. No matter how much I try to stay on budget when the hub is home, he still spends more than I would...an extra stop at the grocery store or costco. We currently have $388 in the household fund and two weeks to go with the hub home. (This includes entertainment, food, dog food, and my gas)...His gas $$ and allowance goes into his separate account.

We are having friends over to dinner tomorrow night and we will most likely go out either tonight or Sunday. Then, next weekend is our long weekend to the rental house. We cook most of the meals at the house, but it always costs a little more than staying home because we buy differently- for instance, the hub really wants to make a prime rib dinner while we are there. So far, I havent found any on sale, so that could end up being pretty spendy. But very good...yum!

Any way- when the hub leaves, I will still have to live on whats left in the household budget for two weeks...and do Thanksgiving dinner. So whats left needs to stretch a long ways...

We paid $706.16 on debt in October. The extra today will count towards November. November is a good month because of how paychecks fall. I will get three, and the hub will get three. At the end of the month, we will have $3000 to put on debt or in savings.