 Hey everyone and welcome back to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida and today we are doing our May budget. I explained in my last video that I probably wouldn't be doing money Mondays anymore. I'll just fill my budget whenever I need to. I just didn't want to kind of not necessarily commit to a Monday but sometimes I just can't do it and have it up for you guys on a Monday. I'll see if I can do it in the future but being that the first fall is on a Saturday I wanted to get it up for you like on the proper date I guess. These are some inserts I made for myself some monthly inserts. I actually love them. I just want to critique them myself use them a little bit myself and I think going into 2022 I may be selling them like a monthly budget. Now I kind of cut these a little wonky but let's pay that no never mind. So if you're new here I'm Yoshida and I am a self-employed hairstylist and I used to do my budget in a regular notebook until I found the beautiful world of planning and I've been hooked while I got hooked and now I budget in a planner. I am currently using a half-letter and this one is from Clothing Paper. Most of the inserts in here I make myself. A lot of them you can find on my website. The discs are from Levinger. So let's sit that aside and let's just kind of get into the nitty gritty. I didn't do a budget a monthly budget for April so I wanted to make sure that I did one for May because I was a little all over the place a little off so let's get started. So as I say this is for the month of May I'm going to put 2021. This insert is in my financial bundle that's on my website. So for income I think we went to this I'm not going to list that I'll do that later for my personal use but I will definitely list my expenses. Some of my expenses for May I've already paid which I actually paid today which is Friday April 30th. All my little small credit card bills are due on the first or the second really the second and it's so funny because all of them are community bank. So I'm going to start with I like to start with things that are my top budget things which is my card notes and I have two card notes. I'll pay my card notes to split up. I'll just go ahead and put down card note number one. It's 181.60 and then I have a personal loan. It is 96.11. My car insurance which is state farm and my life insurance all that is included but this time they gave me a deal. I don't know they switch it from month to month but looks like for the next few months it's going to be like 147.28 and then what I'll do is come back in and check them off and put the actual amount. Now I go into like the credit card bills. And I just paid that on today like $29 or $29. I just did the minimum on them this time because I have to help my daughter out this month so I just didn't know I'm not doing anything extra. Also that was $29 and I'm going to put it and write these in because I paid all of these today and I'm just going to put it there. What else did we have? Wayfair. Well Wayfair was more. It was like 40 and I was going to pay extra on that one but I said no. I got some other things coming out. I need to help my daughter and then I have a Victoria's secrets. I know y'all like this either. It was 29 as well. Okay so I paid those for today. Next I have Amazon and I believe that is $12.99. That'll come out tomorrow the first. Oh let me forget CNP which is cloth and paper sub box. It's just been coming out and I got rid of the second one. I used to have two. Now I'm down to one so I think that's $36. So that'll be coming out tomorrow. These two come out on the first. All of these came supposed to come out on the second. Well I paid them about the second but I just went ahead and did them today. I just wanted to get them caught up and paid on time. We have Canva which I can't remember when they come out and I think that is $12.99 as well. Instant ink that is $20. I'm not for sure that date and then it's something I'm forgetting. We got T-Mobile. Oh my god. What I intend to give them is about $250. I'll be so glad. And my daughter got a new phone. Oh my god. T-Mobile. We have Apple. I think that is, I have two Apple bills but I think that's $2.99. I think it's like $99. And then I have some more credit cards that are due like the 15th. I have Capital One. At one point I was kind of surviving off of my credit card so I know it's bad. I have Capital One. We have Barclays. They are almost, Barclays and Citibank are due like the same day. And they're about the same. I'm going to put 40 for each of these. I normally try to do 50 but I'm not going to push it. So that looks like everything. My Shopify bill I don't, I could put it here but it fluctuates depending if I use them for shipping. So I'm not going to put them down because I'll just put that down on one of my weekly ones or something like that. Let's do a little math and see how much everything is going to cost us here. So the total is $1,174.08. And what I'll do is I'll go back and double check. So this is what we have for the month. Now I like to use a monthly calendar to like make some notes of some things. Also put down the days that everything is due. So I have this over here on the side. I'll start with my card note. It is due on the 11th and the 20th. And I do use stickers sometimes and I'll sometimes come back and just matter of fact, let me get a few stickers. I'll put these here in a place of like I know in the 15th that is capital one. This is pretty much it. This is the month of May. I'm going to just make a note of Mother's Day because I'm going to need to get Mother's Day cards. I'm going to have to get cards and gifts or whatever for my mom and my sister. Anything else I need to make a note of. Also, I want to make a note of grocery. In my last video, I showed you that I made a note of grocery in my weekly check-in because I wanted to kind of monitor how much I'm spending on my healthy food just for like me. Some of the food, you know, my family eats as well, but I wanted to make a note of that. So I'm going to give myself a budget of $300 for the month. I know because some of the things I've gotten that could be a little cheaper. I've gotten a lot of frozen food, things that will last. I'm going to try to keep it at 300 for the month. So right now that's all I have. So you guys right now that's pretty my bills for the month of May. I'm trying to get these credit cards paid off because I really am determined to be debt-free very soon. I don't want to put a time on it because I had planned that for 2020, but we see what happens. So yeah. So now that is my budget. I'm just going to stick this in here so I can kind of refer back to it. But that is it. This is my budget for May. If you have any questions or anything I can help you with, please leave me a message in the comment section. I'll get back to you and I'd be happy to answer your question. I hope you enjoyed today's video. I know it was kind of quick. It seemed like it was quick, but right now this is all that I have and I'm kind of thankful and grateful that I can pay these things. Like I said, I'll fill in the dates once they come in. That kind of helps me to remember and then I can have it for the month of June. So I'll have everything filled out. Well, pretty much everything filled out. I may just add some little icon stickers for like my car note, you know, credit card, and that's something that I'm working on for new releases are little bill icons and things like that. Okay. So that was a request in my Facebook group, so I definitely want to get that up. Also, if I need to make a note of anything over here, like birthdays, and I do have a birthday coming up, but I'm not sending anything, but I do. I got a couple of birthdays in me. Let me just put down birthdays over here because one of my friends, like, she had sent me a cash out for my birthday, so I might want to just like return a favor or whatever. So here you are, you guys. So thank you so much for watching again. Please leave me a comment in the comment section if you have any questions. And also, have you done your main budget yet? I'm a little behind I feel like doing my budget, but it needed to be done. I want to get back into doing it monthly. I want to get back into sharing my budget with you because sharing my budget with you guys was definitely keeping me accountable. So we're definitely starting that back. So we'll be back to a weekly check-in. I was going to do a weekly check-in at the beginning of the week, but I was like, you know, it's time for the monthly. So I'll just save it for the monthly. And then next week, probably Monday, we'll be back on to the weekly check-ins and probably some other planner-related content. So thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in my next video.