Hello, Wine Abbers. My name is Jesse Meekham, and this is podcast number 98 for You Need A Budget,

where we teach you four rules to help you stop living in paycheck to paycheck, get out out of debt and save more money. I wanted to give an update on the

revolutionary change that happened in my household as it relates to my money management and that

is that I turn the budget over to Julie.

My very good wife.

And it has been awesome.

I pulled up our budget, I've got it here open. I did a quick check on grocery spending. We were just

going 2013 January through October January through September Julie took over in

October.

We were averaging about, let's see, nine months, out of those nine months, we overspending groceries seven times.

And then in October, we didn't overspend at all.

And that was when Julie took over. we didn't overspend at all.

And that was when Julie took over.

Restaurants, we would habitually overspend.

But now, uh, now things are looking really, really solid.

We've got in groceries for November,

we budgeted $115. We spent $2895. We got 8865 left to spend. That's

feeling good. Oh, you know what?

There's another $12 missing that we spent.

Nope, no, she got it.

10, it wasn't 12 bucks, it was 1068.

I thought she hadn't put in our Papa Murphy's visit last weekend but she

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