I was looking over our budget today as I do often because I find it cathartic (I have problems) and it occurred to me that now that Josh has signed on to work full-time with his company, we'll be receiving his paychecks twice monthly as close to the 15th and 30th as possible. While that's hardly any different than my own pay schedule, it presents an interesting change in the way I'll be budgeting our income.
Josh was a contract employee up until yesterday, meaning he was technically employed by a hiring agency and his paychecks were delivered weekly. I like to plan the week's expenses--tithing, estimated food and fuel requirements, as well as any pending utilities or other bills--to determine how much of our income can be set aside for savings. I REALLY like to put money in our savings account, guys. It's almost like going shopping--I get this really satisfying high when transferring the money over. So when the leftover weekly income becomes available, I happily move it into savings and receive my positive boost of enthusiasm, happiness, energy, or whatever else you call it.
All this background is merely to present this new conundrum. We won't have those weekly paychecks anymore, meaning I won't get to put money into savings on a quadri-monthly basis. I'll have to wait until the end of the month to put anything into savings and that rather devastates me. No more high.
Now I'll have to find a real hobby like a normal person.
You and Tony would be BFFs. That's so funny you get a high from that. At least it isn't the opposite problem, right?? Your retirement thanks you.
ReplyDeleteUm is this for real? haha You need to come and do our budget! I always make the spreadsheet at the beginning of the month and then forget about it until months later. When we are all 65, you may be seeing a lot of me ;)
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