New Spending Self-Challenge

I am awful at going through fast food drive-thrus. It's much easier to do that than to plan ahead and either eat before going out or pack lunch/snacks or, frankly, just say no :-) . But I know it reeks havoc on my budget. So, since my grocery budget self-challenge is going pretty well, I'm going to tackle the next obvious money leak and see how that goes!

So here's the deal. We always stop at Tim Horton's on Sunday mornings on the way to church. It's tradition, and you can't mess with tradition when you have kids! That's $5.15 each week. Once a month, after DS's orthodontist appointment, apparently it's also tradition to take him through Arby's. That's usually just under $5. Aside from these "traditions," I would like to limit our fast food to once a pay period, or twice a month and eventually get that down to once a month. This will include day trips, shopping trips to Columbus but not road trips to Cincinnati (again, tradition to stop at Tim Horton's in Springfield each direction) or overnight road trips where we don't have access to proper food storage.

Hopefully both my wallet and my waistline will benefit from this new self-challenge! Starts.....NOW! :-)