Unusual Spending for June

I can’t find a post about “unusual spending for May” so I might have forgotten to do one… If I didn’t write one, I can’t give an update on it, so…

I know this is technically a little late, but onto my unusual spending for June.

June is going to be CRAZY and crazy expensive! First of all, we are moving. We aren’t going far, only about 3 miles, but we still have to move our entire life! We also have a camping trip Father’s Day weekend, a trip to the Lodge, The Girl’s dance recital and dance pictures, and a few niece’s and nephew’s graduations.

In truth, I’m not sure how we are going to cash flow all of this, but we are going to try.

Our move is going to be quite costly! It’s not actually the move itself, but everything that goes along with it, the things we want for the new house. We already ordered 3 new toilets and a hot water dispenser; to the tune of $1200. We also bought 2 new TVs, that was another $800. We still need to buy new beds, mattresses, and sheets/bedspreads for The Kids’ rooms. We are also getting a new mattress and box spring for ourselves and putting our current mattress in a spare room. We need to buy new bathroom fixtures for at least 2 of the 3 bathrooms and possible the third as well. In addition to fixtures, we need new bathroom “stuff”: soap dispensers, garbage cans, etc. Eventually, we will need new furniture and probably a million other things, so, needless to say, June’s going to get expensive! We aren’t moving far, just a few miles down the road, but we are moving from an 1100 square foot house to a 2500+ square foot house. We are going to need more of basically everything!

For the last 7 years or so, we have gone camping on Father’s Day weekend with our whole family. The campsites have already been paid for, but we do need to factor in increased costs for gas and food. Other than that, this is a pretty inexpensive weekend. (Of course we need a father’s day present, too. With the move, it has been hard to plan. Hopefully next week I will be able to take The Kids to pick out their presents for their dad.)

The week after camping we have both a trip to the Lodge and The Girl’s dance recital. For the Lodge, the only thing we might need is increased gas and food money. We go with other families and we share cooking/food responsibilities. The Girl’s recital and pictures, on the other hand, comes with a whole host of needed extras. We need to buy tickets for the recital. They are $15 each and we need 4. We bought them yesterday and we should be reimbursed for 2. We were able to pay for them with money already in our “kids activities” envelope.  We will also be able to pay for dance pictures from this envelope. However, we will need to continue to fund said envelope going forward as it will be mostly depleted by the end of this month.

I have one niece and one nephew each who will be graduating from high school this month. We will give each a small cash gift as congratulations. This will probably come from our “house petty cash” as it was unplanned for. (Note to self: really must include “gifts” in budget again!)

It’s going to be a costly month, for sure. We are hoping to not go into further debt in order to finance it and in fact, to decrease our consumer debt by at least a little.

Last month was busy as we were buying a new house and packing our old one, hence the low volume of posts. In all likelihood, June will be the same. I’m going to try to not fall of the face of the earth this month and keep you posted on our financial doings and our debt slaying progress!