Post by @delaesthetics

Our income doubled just last year once my wife graduated dental hygiene school but this is our 4th month budgeting and we’ve been lowering certain line items mostly the groceries and eating out because we used to blow way more than we have budgeted for Our current budget for dual income household family of 3: 🏠Mortgage $1,589 🤠HOA $165 💡Utilities $230 ⛽️Gas $160 🛒Groceries $1,200 🍔 Eating out $800 🚑 Medical/Dental insurance(automatically comes out of my check so I don’t put this on our budget) $761 🚗Car insurance(2 vehicles) $217 📲Phone/internet $280 📺 Subscriptions $221 👶🏽Daycare $600 🛍️Retail/fun $800 🫙Storage unit $49 Totals= $6,311 This gives us $2,789 to pay off debt, save, or invest I’ve posted this almost every month with the updated changes to our budget and I’ve taken People’s suggestions like calling services to get the payment lowered and it actually cut down my costs a good bit like my WiFi went from $100 to $30 and car insurance went from $400 to $280 I know everyone’s favorite thing to say is the grocery and eating out but we like to eat so we’re keeping that where it’s at Any tips let me know in the comments down below!