Frugal Friday: The Conclusion of our Spending Freeze

Guess what?!

We have an offer on our house. Don’t get too excited yet, we have to wait for financing to go through. Once that is set then we can let out the squeal of delight.

11 weeks we haven’t spent money on anything unnecessary. Before we started this spending freeze we looked at our budget for paying two mortgages, and two sets of utility bills along with our groceries and we were left with $25 a month.

 

So we put into place a spending freeze. How could we not- we weren’t going to have any money.

Of course, when we went non contingent on the sale of our house we knew we could dip into our savings account.  We will have 3 more weeks to go making our total spending freeze 14 weeks or 98 days. Not once did we have to use money from our savings account.

We were determined not to.

We had both of our daughters birthdays during the spending freeze.

 

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