Landlines and Cellphones

What a racket this is! Budgeting cutting efforts again here. Rich and I realized that between the two we were paying WAY too much per year on phones.

So, we called Bellsouth, cut off the caller ID, call waiting, and something else I can't remember. But it cut the bill down by $35 a month....This is just exciting news in this house.

Then, we got to Sprint, to see about that bill....Come to find out we can't reduce our bill. In fact, when our service runs out we will be forced into a 'bundle package' that will increase our bill. "Bundling" is suppose to SAVE money!!!!! Our only option is to get rid of Rich's Trio and get him a regular phone. Problem being my super busy, sole-income making husband deserves his geeky gadget and uses it very well.

The kicker is we'd look for a new phone company when our contract ran out, but my entire family is on Sprint - we get to talk for free. I talk to my mom almost every day, can't imagine the bill if we had to count minutes!

Decisions will be made next year I suppose......

Next time - work ramblings...

Wasted

A side affect of becoming part-time working mom is the obvious household budget cuts. I must admit that in the past we didn't pay much attention to spoiled food getting thrown out or spending a little more on items. Now that money is "tight" things are a little different.

Silly, but I am giddy when we finish leftovers or the extra sauce from pizza doesn't start talking to me from the fridge, 6 weeks later....

Challenges. The cost of groceries is HIGH these days. Despite my best coupon clipping efforts finding deals some months is just tough. We are desperately trying to keep the grocery budget, including formula and diapers at $650/mth. Strategies we've employed are using 'Angel Food Ministries' to get some basic meat packages each month and I recently checked out the ALDI grocery across from the gym. I would call this a 'basics' store. Definitely useful for a quick egg, bread, and banana pickup after the gym...not my everyday store.

Next time maybe I'll discuss the financial ridiculousness of having cellphones and landlines!

She SPEAKS!

Nora has words....3 of them

"keedee" - kitty, it was her first
"dada" - of course the daddy gets all the love
"Bur" - her version of 'bird'...in reference to a stuffed parrot in her room

We are just SO amazed at how fast she's learning......