Financial Fridays - The Start

As I sit in my hotel room, I have decided to start logging my spending through blogging. A brand new goal of tracking all my money. Okay probably not a new goal but I am going to try to write down my budget and get a hold of my spending.

What is this Goal?

My goal is to spend $300 or less on groceries, gas, entertainment, and other spending per month. That comes out to $10 a day. This does not include my mortgage or utilities as I pay roughly $930 a month.

Yes, if you have read some of my other blogs you know I make $11 an hour. After taxes, I make $1,400 a month working 40 hours a week. Leaving $500 after my mortgage for expensive.

Since February, my company started massive budgets cuts. I went from having overtime every week to not even having 40 hours in a week. I went from making $350-$430 a week to $250-$300 a week. For debt and traveling, it is a huge difference.

Oh and for those of you that say "get a new job" Fuck off.  I love my job. It allows me time off to travel. It allows me to meet people from all over. Great hours and amazing health benefits.

Anyway back to my budget, I plan to cut back slowly on my spending. Track every purchase at least week by week hint of the name. Maybe even more. I want to build up my vacation fund, Emergency fund, retirement fund as well as not into big debt for living the adventurous life.