As the primary money manager in our house, I’m usually on top of things when it comes to Kev’s pay schedule. I usually know his pay schedule better than he does – ha! You can probably imagine the surprise that I had when I woke up on Friday morning and saw that Kev’s paycheck had NOT been deposited as I had anticipated.
For some reason, I was thinking he got paid the last Friday of every month, but it’s actually the last weekday of every month, which fell on today this month. OOPS! My bad!
I had planned to do a big grocery shopping trip this weekend to get us stocked back up since our return from vacation. {I don’t know about you, but I try to eat up everything in our fridge before we leave town for a week.}
On Friday afternoon, I scurried around and came up with a menu plan to get us through the weekend until payday. Luckily, I had $16 left in our cash envelopes for the month {I think $10 of it may have been from our clothing envelope, but you do what you have to do!}. It wasn’t much since I thought we were starting a new month on Friday, but I was determined to see if I could pull it off.
We keep breakfast and lunch pretty simple, so I mostly plan out my dinner menu. I just keep the basics for breakfast and lunches on hand.
Friday: spaghetti with meat sauce, salad, bread
Saturday: LEFTOVERS
Sunday: cooking out with friends {bringing corn on the cob and cookies to share}
I made my grocery list and scanned the grocery store flyers to see if there were any great sales on some of the items I knew I needed. I didn’t see anything that blew me away, so I headed out to Kroger. Kroger tends to be my go-to store these days. They run some great sales and they send me all sorts of coupons in the mail.
