Choices

Sometimes we are faced with choices that regardless of our decision leaves us feeling bad. I was dealing with that yesterday because we have the opportunity to sign our girls up for gymnastics and it is going to cost more than I would like.

On one hand, we have not signed them up for a long time in order to save money and if we don't get them involved again soon, they will be a lot older than the other girls in their respective skill classes and I don't want them to be embarrassed by that.

On the other, we are trying really hard to spend as little as possible in order to pay off our remaining debts and get control of our finances. So doing this feels like a departure.

The only way I could justify it was to take it out of the budget equation. My wife and I decided last night that we would each sell a few of our own personal items, give up some spending money, and put our Cash Crate and blogging money towards it. Hopefully that will be enough to cover it and it won't have to show up in our budget at all.

Sure, we would still be better served to put that money towards our debts but since we wouldn't normally have done those things, it feels like a win.

They don't call it "personal" finances for nothing.