Money Like Water

If you are finding that stretching that paycheck from one to the next is just not making it you might want to try this suggestion from yahoo's article on 'overspending'. It's easy to do with the way things are today. Everything is billed, or charged, and it's easy to loose track of just where you spent all that money. Without going into how much my husband and I made last year I can certainly tell you we did the same thing at the end of the year that we do just about every year. We looked at each other and said 'where did all that money go?' It just seems to slide like liquid through your fingers. Espcially now since electronic deposits and, for me, payment online and directly into the bank are so commonplace. Rarely do people actually get a check and deposit it in the bank anymore. We never actually see our 'real' money. It's all on statements and in cyber space. It exists. We know it does. Somewhere. At some point we had it, just never in our actual hands. That makes it all too easy to spend too. When that paycheck stretch breaks down into broke long before payday, it's a good thing to step back and take a look at exactly where that money is going, and how to stop the flow.