Money Fast Experiment: Details

Today starts our experimental money fast! I am excited about it, just because I am always looking for ways to save money. The experiment is mainly for me. I am the person that does the main shopping in our family for pretty much everything.

Over the next month, I will be keeping a daily journal that I will post every week on Saturday. It will talk about:

1. If money had to be spent and what category. (e.i. food, bills, gas)
2. If there was something I wanted to buy (above food, bills and gas), how did I handle it? Did I find another way to get it, such as barter/trade? Or did I find something else around home to use? Did I find someone to borrow the item from? Or....did I have to break down and spend money?
3. Also will write down if I had any opportunity to make money.

My goal for doing this is to see where we might be able to save a couple bucks as well as just getting a general idea on how we spend our "extra" money.

We do six month budgets as well as the "envelope" system. So we stay on track pretty good. Just trying to get a better idea on things.