September Goals

We had to travel to Oregon over the long weekend to my nephew’s wedding. On the way home, we also stopped and visited my aunt, uncle, and cousin in Southern Oregon. Out of the three nights, we had to book a hotel for two of them.

The best part is that we didn’t have to pay for our hotels. We had one free night through the hotels.com website and 28000 points through our Choice hotels reward program. The one free night was easy to redeem and, actually, so were the points. We used 12000 to get a free night’s stay in a room with 3 beds.

We did have to pay for gas and food for the trip. Most, but not all, of our gas was paid for in cash. We charged one fill up to the tune of $24.00 We might have enough money left over at the end of the week to put that towards our credit card, but it really depends on if we have any gas money left over on Friday. As of right now, The Husband is filling up my gas tank and I have $21 left in my gas envelope. (He has $60 to fill it up.) He will also need gas this week, however, and I don’t think he has any money left because we also used his weekly gas money for the trip.

We charged all our food for the trip. In total, it was about $200. We had breakfast each morning at the hotel and then had to buy lunch and dinner. The night of the wedding, dinner was at the wedding. It was more than I would have liked, but we have to eat.

Our goal to get the credit card bill under $9000 seems to be getting further and further away. I just don’t see how we are going to make it. The $200 for food this weekend certainly didn’t help! The Husband doesn’t have any overtime on this check and we are already sending as much to the credit card with this pay period as we can afford. It’s not looking good.

Tonight after dinner, The Husband and I are going to go grocery shopping. Our meals are planned for the month of September, but we haven’t had a chance to shop yet. We tried to use as many ingredients from our pantry and freezer as possible, therefore, we shouldn’t have to spend too much.

For the month, we budgeted $400 and I am really hoping we will be able to stick to that. I’ll keep you posted once we do our shopping!