August has been a very fun month filled with vacation time and trips, and great weather, but it didn’t do much good for our budget. Overall, we ended up spending about $150 more than we made, and did not make the additional contributions to our debts that we wanted. On the other side, out standing debts are still down, reserve funds are still up, and we still have a $1500 holdback from our child care account that we hadn’t tapped. Though that’s currently earmarked for October when our tax bill finally comes due, and to cover what I see brewing as a shortfall that month.
Here’s how the rest of the month went