Whew we made it!  This month has really opened our eyes to what we need to be saving and what we need to be putting towards debt and how we have not been doing that!

Well, we are almost there and we have done better than I thought we would. 

This past week has been about adapting this new “saving thing” to our lives or loosening up a little bit in order to make it more comfortable so we can keep it up. 

Well, maybe not so giant but still a big step for me:  I am re-using a purse from last year!  I have never in my life re-used a purse!  I have been carrying my winter time black purse so far this summer and this weekend finally decided that I need to change over into a lighter colored purse but didn’t want to spend the money to buy a new one.  So I went to my closet last night and retrieved my white purse from last year.  I cleaned it up a little and it looks good as new! 

Well, we are not doing as well as I had hoped but we can still recover.  We have all been sick this week so there was some added expense for medicine and some eating out since neither of us had it in us to cook.  We did better at the grocery store this week by clipping coupons again and really looking at what we were buying (no steaks this week) but then we had to buy diapers and that kind of threw a big kink in things. 

Meet the Reyes family, our July Challenge participants. German repairs cell phones for AT&T and I’m Lindsay, I am a land planner and I work by the Galleria.  Haydyn is 3 ½ months old and her hobbies include squealing, drooling, and attempting to roll over.