 Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel! Today we're doing my May budget! Yay! So first things first I use an Erin Condren Deluxe Monthly Planner and it just has the overview of the month and then it's got some notes pages and then it's got another notes page and then it's like into the new month. So what I like to do if you're new here, you can like skip a little bit if you're not new here. What I like to do is on the month page just write if there are, I have like a little sticky note thing. This is also from Erin Condren. I'll leave a link down below for that website as well as if it's your first time buying anything from Erin Condren. There's one link you can click and if you sign up you will get an emailed $10 off coupon towards your first order and then once your order ships I actually get a $10 credit as well which helps bring these videos to you guys. So anyways I like to put in like if I know something that's coming up. So I actually have Go Wild this week or yeah actually this week because today is the first and I'm hoping I can get fingers crossed. Hoping I can get this video up for you today. So anyways I utilize this page. I don't do anything with this page. I never have. I don't know if I ever will but I'm just going to go like this and then I'm going to use some washi at the top. This is actually from my new shop, a favorite daughter's shop. I'll leave a link below if you are interested but this is kind of like a peachy color. I don't really have any peachy washi even in my like normal stash. So I figured I'd go with this one. I just restocked these actually yesterday. So hopefully there's some up for you guys and I figured I would go with this one because it's got like some orange and yellow and pink and then this really pretty like metallic gold. I swear like I freaking sell washi. Like I can't lay this down right. Oh my gosh you guys. Like I have so many struggles today plus I'm leaving for Austin tomorrow which is where they go wild conferences. So I'm going to Texas and you think a planner girl would have packed by now but she hasn't. I haven't packed anything yet. Nothing. I have my snacks in my backpack and I don't really think that counts. Should I just go all the way? No. I won't go all the way. Okay. All right. Cute right? I like the way that looks. I also keep my planner stickers. So like these are kind of all the budgeting things that I typically use. I also have one of these. It's like a little pouch from Erin Condren and I just put all my stuff in it like my planner and my like budgeting stickers just so I have them. I used to I don't do this anymore but if you go to Coffee Break Planner I will link them down below. I used to do like a month or like a daily detail of everything that I would spend. There are examples on her Etsy shop. I don't really do that anymore because I don't share incoming expenses any longer and that's how I like to utilize it. So anyway these are part of I think these are all part of the Emily's budget bundle. So feel free to go check her out but you use it on like your monthly page. So anyway just like to mention that and then there's these stickers but I don't think I'm going to use them even though I have a May but these are from Erin Condren and then I've got some other ones in here. Oh these are from Coffee Break Planner as well but these are not part of the Emily's budget bundle. I was using these when I was saving for a house which I have my house now so I'm not saving for a house any longer and then I've got these Erin Condren ones and then this is from Paper House Life Organized and I think these are super freaking cute. I don't know what I'm gonna like use yet so but I am a decorative planner. If you guys don't like decorative planning this is probably not the video for you so I'm just gonna go through and list all of my outgoing. Like I said before I do not share incoming funds at all any longer and yeah so let's just go for it. Before I get that started let's put in um one of these guys. I'm gonna put in this like little budget because cuteness and it kind of goes with the oh it just goes so well. Yay and I'm gonna use this kind of like salmon color because it's like the right thing and then I will list my bills down below. Well here are all of my outgoing bills that I know of so these are basically fixed expenses. There's a couple of estimates that I'll go over in just a moment. So my house payment is 451.38. I get a lot of comments um typically people that just haven't followed me for a long time of how my house payment is that low. I put 50% down on my house so that's how it's incredibly low and less than most people's rent. Like even in my area I can't rent anything my size like the size of my house for anything close to that but that's what happens when you put 50% down on your home. So it's very very low which I appreciate right now. My HOA is 158. It's a homeowners association. I do get questions on what HOA means so that just means that the lawn maintenance and snow removal and a lot of the exterior things are taken care of with my home and then obviously me as the homeowner I take care of the interior stuff. My gas is a fixed expense at 28 dollars a month. That is something that they do fluctuate. I believe it's twice a year so um yeah that whatever and then um my water and sewer bill through the city is estimated about 54 dollars. It's about the same. It's anywhere from like 52 to 56. Like last month I looked it up and it was like 53 something so it's around that 54 dollar mark typically. Colligan I do rent a water softener because I guess they've gone through two of them in this house and this house is quite new so it's just the city water. It's not that great so I do rent a water softener um that's 32 dollars and 65 cents. That's a set expense. So my electric bill is estimated at 70 dollars. That is definitely something that fluctuates with the season so I think it's going to be around that this month and then my garbage bill is the same every month at 1785 and it's like my trash and my recycle. My cable and wi-fi 114.60. My cell phone is 88.52. My auto insurance is 85 dollars and 42 cents and then my cobra insurance for my health insurance is 315.09 and then my netflix is 11.75. So this month my extra expenses are go wild so that's obviously a large expense so I am going to put that in here as well and then my extra spending which is like gas and then eating out and groceries that's going to be kind of the same except for the eating out category so I'll just make my categories and then we'll go over that in just a moment. Okay so I got my like regular stuff done and then also my go wild things. So fuel for my vehicle I just haven't been driving as much or I've been doing a lot more stuff in town or um if I need something I'll like buy it on amazon you know if I can find it so anyway my fuel costs have been dramatically decreased in the last few months so um a hundred dollars and then for my grocery budget I usually budget about 50 bucks a week or so so that's good um all my eating out money is going to be in Austin so I'm not even going to put that on there so anyway down below is go wild in Austin Texas my hotel I already haven't calculated I literally have my like confirmation thing right over here it's $1,374.16 I know a lot of you are going to say that's really expensive and yes it is however I have elected not to have any roommates because I sleep weird I sleep with a sound machine and I really just kind of want my privacy to be honest so um but I'm still going to be social and have a lot of fun but um I decided that actually last year at this time when I knew I wanted to go to Austin Texas so I kind of knew that that was going to be happening so I did budget for it um as for meals I do have a couple of meals um that are going to be provided for me so um I'm going to budget about $200 and that's like with snacks and drinks and things like that so I think I think I can definitely get within that frame of $200 because I mean I know it just gets so expensive when you have to eat out for like breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks um as for transportation I'm guesstimating $100 I think that's going to be actually a lot less than what I need um the hotel that I'm staying at provides a shuttle and they said it's $2 a ride so um I'm assuming that I'm going to be tipping them and all that good stuff too so yeah and then also for spending money I just figured I'd have like a $50 buffer in there so let's get this all totaled up and then I will put um what the total is in every category all right so I just decided to use one of these um half boxes and uh put my little calculator in here and this is from one orange snowflake I'll list their shop down below just wanted to put in my total all right so that is how much it's going to cost to run my life in the month of May I should probably write May somewhere I mean I know it's May but do you guys really know it's May I don't know I guess it depends on when you're watching this so for the go wild stuff I am gonna get out some cash and I'm actually gonna go and do that today for some of the items so I'm just gonna put this little like cash machine little thing and these are all from the uh Aaron Condren budget sticker sheet again I will leave a link for Aaron Condren down below so I hope you guys enjoyed this look into my May budget if you guys have any questions feel free to post them down below if you like these kinds of videos make sure to give it a thumbs up leave a comment subscribe that really helps out my channel if you guys do that and I will see you guys for the next budget which will be in June and I'm doing some travel then as well so it is gonna be another funky one like this so I hope you guys enjoyed and I will see you very very soon bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school