February Monthly Budget Round-Up

I have a blogging addiction. I'll admit it.

In my head, there are hundreds of possible blog posts, but I have a limited amount of time to write them (and difficulty justifying the amount of time I spend online). And after last week's burnout, it's pretty clear to me that I need to put some limits on my blogging.

When I first started this blog, it was a challenge to myself to see if I could go green and still stay in our budget, so I started posting our monthly budget to keep myself honest and because I thought it would be useful to others to see how much we spend on things. Now a year later, I've proved to myself that I could go green without going broke, and it seems redundant to keep posting these numbers.

So here's my question to all of you readers. Is this information still useful? What if I did budget round-ups every other month or quarterly?

Thoughts? Input?

On to this month's numbers:

Monthly Spending (budgeted amount in parentheses)

• Groceries: $684.44 ($650)

• Transportation: $132.17 ($150)
  

• Energy: $149.83 ($150)

• Utilities: $46.17 ($50)

• Entertainment/Miscellaneous: $362.72 ($400)
  

• Clothes: $45.74 (no set budget)

• TOTAL: $1,421.07 ($1,400)

The Numbers:

• Trash: 3 bags of trash (13 gallon bags); 1 recycling bin with plastic, metal, and glass; 2 paper grocery sacks of paper
• Miles Driven: 745
  
• Average daily electricity use: 33 kWh
• Average daily water use: 122 gallons
  

Best of...

• Most Popular Post: Make Your Own: Homemade Febreeze (483 pageviews)
  
• Most Commented Post (excluding giveaways): Dispose of Your Disposable Paper Products (11 comments) and My Personal Care Products (11 comments)
  

Next Month I'll Be...

• reading Conscious Kids
  
• watching Dirt! The Movie
  
• working on packaging, composting, recycling, and waste-free lunches for The Conscious Shopper Challenge
• giving up disposable paper products for a month for the March Extreme Challenge