the budget from hell: unlocking creativity

Well this is technically the first week that my full throttle, no nonsense, intensified, steroid injected budget from hell is in the works. Last week was sort of a warm up, before I went to cash only. I didn't spend as much as I normally do. I ate peanut butter and jelly for lunch everyday and began the grudging process of warming up a tv dinner, taking it out of the microwave to stir and then warming it up again. I have to admit right now this is hard to do. I feel like it takes 20 minutes just to cook a snack. I will get used to this though. No one ever said this budget would be easy.

I am noticing that this budget is beginning to change the way I think. For starters I'm beginning to think about each and every purchase. Going to a weekly spending limit while retiring the safety net of your debit card enlightens a person to exactly how much money he wasted on things he simply did not need.

I'm not delirious enough to believe that everyone is chomping at the bit to read these updates on my budget. My reason for posting my budget progress is to show the world that it can be done. I used to sit and stew for hours about how little I perceived my net worth to be, but now I realize that was just the response of a lazy martyr. God created us with a spark of His very own creativity, and creativity is usually birthed out of an uncomfortable situation. The boundaries of this budget are unlocking a creativity in my spending I never knew I had. I owe it to myself and God, not to stall out everytime I feel bogged down with my weekly expenses, but to instead creatively draw an exit to my situation.