We have a budget buster but we knew it was coming so it's not a big shock. Thankfully with the money that's come in over the last week the budget buster is easier to take. It's my wife's cleaning service which I told her she could keep (she will not budge and she's been very good about everything else so I'm not going to push it!) I wrote a check and will be paying it from the birthday money I got last week ($403!) so it's not too bad. They come twice a month so if I figure it out of the weekly totals it's actually $66.25/wk ($132.50/visit!) We also gave the kids their allowances (they get $10/wk and we pay them twice a month) so that comes out of the budget as well. The wife actually has exactly $100 in her purse and on payday (Weds) I will give her the $300 weekly cash. That number is actually a little lower than what we could budget but the more we can send to the debt the better!

So for Monday (the cleaning people come tomorrow but I wrote the check tonight...so it's here!)

$130.51 Budget left
$66.25 Cleaning Service
$20.00 Allowances
$44.26 remaining under budget

The plan will be that she will give me $86.25 every Weds to cover these recurring costs. So I'm going to deduct them from our actual weekly allowance to make sure we stay on task. This one is a freebie for her since it's my bday money. From now on she'll get $260...and if she has $ left over she can hold onto it until we either get a surplus in weekly expense cash or we run out. We'll see how it goes!