 Celebrity Bacon oh, yeah, oh, yeah, even though it's Friday Hopefully Monday or Tuesday. I'll you know, I'll be in touch. Yeah, just whenever they're whenever they're done printing them Victory big got a number We've got another I just you you did it. You did it. You did the work back back in the day We did it. So okay, so we're watching hold on. We're watching you did it hold on. Oh stop. Oh Wait, we are watching Last year's vlog one year ago Where we reflected about our family finances and so we thought we'd give you guys an update because there's a I think we've Definitely doubled the subscribers since then so there's a lot of you that maybe don't know about our family finances So we're gonna watch it. We're react to it yesterday or last year my gosh and then not give you a little reflection right here We go All right, everyone. We are back from ice skating and so much fun so much fun I don't want to go back to watch that. Oh my god. Good boys are with Nana Which gives us an opportunity to have our monthly family finance meeting Yeah, if you guys out there have a monthly family finance meeting comment below if you feel comfortable doing that and Share your tips about what you do for budgeting So here's one of our tips for 2017 what are we gonna do at the end of December? We always sit down and have a big annual Think of all the cars that are outside of what you would normally think of so you normally think of your mortgage and Things like Great great tip. Yes. Yeah. All right, catch up with you in one hour All right, what we're doing now is going through the list um need need list right need list Highlighting the need list versus Okay, so everyone there you go that was like the two and a half minute clip of our family finance meeting in 2016 one year ago 2017 right preparing for 2017 budget, which is this year and You want to give them a brief little update on how the year has gone which we should show the envelope. Oh, yeah Okay, you want to go get them or you could do B-roll. Yeah, we'll go. We'll do I think it was a Fantastic year. This was the year we got out of debt pay off all of our debt besides our house and we actually not only did that we had a lot of Additional expenses, but of of pain my big sister had had her first house this summer and there was a lot of expenses with that for our family and then She had a home visit so she came here And we really wanted to treat her well and like take her to PF James and do all sorts of fun stuff Yeah, and we also had a lot of stuff We wanted to buy for the house like the patio for the channel and we say for Hotel getaway for our anniversary and things that because we've been gazelle intense for 18 months or however long long it was 15 months Yeah, we wrote we wanted to to Dubai and we wanted to build up our emergency fun So anyway, we I feel like this was like the most epic year financially for us ever We got out of debt we saved up a lot of money Yeah, we saved up a lot of money and paid in cash for all the fun stuff we did for the whole year That's why we're always kind of showing cash on the camera Yeah, it's not the flaunt is to show you that instead of using the credit card, you know Which can you can get in trouble pretty quick? Yeah You get your envelope to put your cash inside and then you know that's how much you have to spend that month So that's why we do that for a date night and everything else and I mean we even had one for like Painting the house and still in progress, but we paid for it all yeah all sorts of stuff that we wanted to do but We didn't allow ourselves to do it until all the dollars were saved in that particular envelope So I feel like we crushed it. Basically. Basically from a year ago. I mean We're talking night and day Yeah, as far as anxiety in the heart and like having anxiety around money because that's You guys know like when you have a medical bill that pops up or your car breaks down And you're like that can send you right into debt and so there it's night and day 365 days ago, right so that video even though it was pretty Positive video there was you know, we're still on kind of walking on eggshells, right? It was very I think I was like March the first week in March is when we got out of debt January for me So there was yeah, at least more months and another thing we did But this might tip I before I forget is this year when we made our budget every month We make a budget we zero out our dollars. So however much dollars we know we're coming in We zeroed them all out So he's paid on the last day of the month and then that money pays for the upcoming months bills So we can do that we can zero it all out and I always I did it on Excel And I just add it or I print it off or I would do paper Whatever I would add if there was something that came up that we didn't know for instance We registered our joke for kindergarten for school and that was 40 bucks to register him And we knew it was gonna be something and I think we had put 60 because I was overshooting it But it was like it's like little things like that that you might not remember or you didn't actually know about so anytime There was extra either extra income or extra expenses I would write it on the actual budget and then I kept that budget so this year for 2018 when I go through I know What things cost what and just because we're out of debt doesn't mean that we're like whoo-hoo like spending like crazy for Christmas so fun. You may have seen this floating around the YouTube recently of vlogmas Oh, what is that? Christmas put them together. So people are making videos on the YouTube all about Christmas Advent, but they do it's called vlogmas. Oh, so cute. What is our budget? And this is you know, we discussed this ahead of time We decided to tell everyone just to be open and you know just to be open Yes, what are we spending this year on Christmas total for Christmas presents for our children our siblings parents and Maybe a few neighbors and then the Christmas tree and then our Christmas cards, which I can tell you how we got a good deal on that Total $300. Wow 300 bucks which you know is pretty little Small it is small, but it's not last year. What was it? Oh, it's much less like 60 Because we know we're slowly moving up But now keep in mind we do we do still shop for the children at Goodwill. Yeah, we're not afraid Total what I spent on them for Christmas with $14. So and garage sales this past summer. Yeah, that's true And we do have generous and when it's so like they are also getting our children presents And also we don't think our children need a ton of presents, but yeah, they're gonna get some new things Vlogmas Christmas 2017 Financial update in the books. Thanks for watching and we're off to a party. Yeah, we are part day I think we should have them if you have any tips. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry or question of the day Yeah, if you have any financial tips of how your family budgets or saves money or gets ahead I was just reading this book the other day. I was talking about playing good defense So, you know, never painful price for something that's like when we go on our date That's always having a coupon by one get one or whatever it might be. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy life But so anyway, all these little tips leave them down below and I never thought of a Christmas card I would only ever just do Shutterfly or minted with a coupon and then be like I'm winning But we just took a step further. We're like, no, I bet we can find it even cheaper than that So that was a good tip. I thought I you know, we're friends. Yeah, just think of that one But so anyway, if you have any tips, we'd love to hear them because it's the more defense you can play the more you can You know, I'm right later. Thrive later and give later. And we have so many dreams of when we're like 60 of how we can like Yeah, give back or take care of people in ways that you know, we'd love to we'd love to get there So help us help us get there. What are your tips? Oh? Drop your mic. Let's do some V-roll. Okay. Oh, yeah, I'll do some V-roll and