Just found your blog – and I love it! Congrats on being so open and good luck on the lack of clothing purchases for another YEAR! hahaha.

Looking forward to reading more of your posts,

Best,

Laura

I now mix purple and navy. It’s perfect.
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Grocery Bill = Only groceries.

If either of us needs toiletries, we buy it on our own dime… he’d never use my lip balm for example

And we keep it low because we cook at home, and tend to eat pretty simple things during the week.

Mostly BF — he takes oatmeal + sugar in the morning, then pasta + tomatoes + veggies & sauce during the week.

I’m the one that jacks up the bill with my deli meats, chicken, veggies.. but I also bake a lot of stuff like cakes and pita bread.

Plus, I eat ramen. For $1/meal, that sure ain’t bad!

I don’t consider myself “Rich”.. but I do watch my expenses (as does BF for the household), because we need to stay focused/on track, as we are freelancers without steady incomes.

I want to cut my budget down from $1500 to $1000. That’s the goal.. hence the strict budgeting. I don’t have a contract right now and without income, I need to work on expenses.

I'm impressed you have a strict budget! I kinda just say, "Here's $1,500/month, go spend whatever I want within it, but don't worry about how you split it up."

And to think, I consider myself to be very frugal…

Just my monthly mortgage payment alone ($1560), is more that your monthly expenditures!

Going at this rate, you'll have to create a new website call "Fabulously Rich in the City"…

How in the world do you keep your grocery bill so low? We average $100 a WEEK. Of course, that includes dog food and toiletries and our allergy medicine, but still…. Holy crap.