Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Can You Feed a Family of 7 on $115 a week?

At the start of this 2 week period I had $231 budget for all grocery and household needs. Right now I have $22 and $21 are earmarked for haircuts for Anson, Nathan and Annika. That leaves $1. Right now I know that I will need size 2 diapers and baby food, if nothing else. If I could scrounge up a mere $50 (of which $11 was already spent on wood glue and batteries for a bed-wetting alarm) then I could also buy some bananas and grapes.

Part of me feels so stinkin' proud of the fact that I am taking care of my whole household budget for $280. And the other part of me is already tired of stressing about running out of cash.