So we put DS's new bond from grandparents in the lockbox, and found some of the coins we had been keeping, mostly old or forign, prolly not worth much but interesting. I also found a bunch of dollar coins (the newish gold ones) why on earth we used a CC for stuff when we had money sitting there, and not even fancy money! (Ok so there is some fancy stuff too)

Anyway on our new no CC rule we havn't gone over budget except for the dentist in a couple months (well over here and there, but not a deficit) And I hope to keep that up, maybe even improve on it, but I still have the desperation, of I don't know where on earth more money is going to be found. As soon as we get the CC paid off I want to start putting that money away, half for emergency stuff and half for vacation (DS deserves that trip to Washington DC). I just have to convince DH to keep up the frugal stuff without a CC looming over us.