June's Unusual Spending: A Recap

June... how did we do? Eh....

We didn't do horribly, but we didn't do great, either. As I predicted, June was crazy expensive!

We bought a lot for the new house. We bought mattresses and box springs for all of us, a new bed for The Girl and new bedding for both kids and the spare room. We paid for all of that out of some of the profits from the last house. We bought garbage cans and soap dispensers for The Kids' bathroom only. I  We haven't found soap dispensers or towel racks or fixtures that we like for the master bathroom yet, so we are still on the lookout. As far as furniture goes, I finally ordered bar stools for our island counter. They came to $1000 for 5. My mom is paying for two of them as a housewarming gift so we only had to pay $600. That also came out of profits from the old house. Things for the house are coming along and they are expensive, but eventually we will have bought everything we need and not need to buy anything else... eventually. I'm looking forward to "eventually".

Camping was great. It's not my favorite thing, but it is a cheap vacation. We bought the food for camping right out of our food budget and same with the gas. For The Husband's father's day gift, we gave him some different Starbucks items from the grocery store and a gift card to the movies to go see Cars 3 as a family. It wasn't too expensive and any time we can make something"family time" and make memories, we enjoy.

The Lodge was pretty inexpensive, mostly just gas and food which we paid for out of our normal budgeted envelopes. The same with The Girl's dance recital and pictures. We had more than enough money in the "kid's activities" envelope to pay for everything we needed to buy. (I love that we have been funding our envelopes pretty well and I love having the money for something that we need to pay for!)

Since I wrote this, I have only seen my niece who graduated high school. I gave her a card and did put some money in there from the "house petty cash" jar. I will be seeing my nephew on the 4th of July, and I will give him the same amount of money from the same jar. (Note to self: really must include “gifts” in budget again!)

It was a costly month, for sure. We did pretty well, overall. Of course we spent more on "house stuff" than I even imagined! Hopefully, we can plan well for July!