Depending on how crazy our months were, we shaved anywhere from 1,000 to 1,200 dollars off our credit card bill this month. Pretty fantastic. Our goal is to spend about 1,500 total on everything per month, so our 2,100 wasn't too bad.
It's almost embarrassing to even talk about, but we're big time overspenders. Wait, correct that. It's not "almost" embarrassing, it's straight up "wearing nothing but underwear in high school biology class dream" level of embarrassment going on here. At our worst, we were eating out almost every meal. And it's not like we were eating cheaply either. We didn't really go into the red (see what I did there with the color switch?) too much, so it was more of a paycheck to paycheck thing.
Turns out there's no big trick to saving money. You find your biggest monthly culprit and figure out how to either cut it or do it cheaper. Our biggest expense (by far) is on food, lunch especially, so I now take soup and self-packed chips, fruits, and veggies to work to eat. Dinner is more tricky, but Anya has developed all kinds of cost effective cooking techniques that stretch our food purchases out over the longest period of time. Maybe she can elaborate on it a little more in the comments.
So yeah. We'll see how far down we can get this sucker...
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