Budget Busters

Happy Saturday! I had the flu this week so I wasn't able to keep up with all my favorite blogs. I was sleeping when I should have been reading. So I don't have a round-up this week.

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Emily at Remodeling This Life has tagged me to complete The Budget Busters Challenge. I need to list five things that cause me to break the budget. This is actually hard cause I do pretty well sticking to a budget.

• Eating out. This is my number one budget buster. I can’t resist eating out. It’s a combination of being irrational when I’m hungry and the thought that “hey, a person has to eat.”
• Groceries. You may ask yourself, “How can she go over budget on both eating out and groceries?” It’s just that I try so hard to spend as little as possible on groceries and I’m just unrealistic with my goals.
• Gas. I think this one is pretty common. With gas prices going up everyday it’s hard to stay on top of it.
• Stuff for the kids. It’s so easy to overspend in the kids department. How do you say no to something that will make your kids (temporarily) happy?
• Disneyland. I don’t know if I consider it a “budget buster” since we budget for it, but it’s money we don't have to spend. We try to go once a year.