Having Fun on a Budget: Ideas and a Challenge for you
Last week's discussion around boundaries wrapped up a themed quarter in my yearly calendar where we spent April, May and June talking about Taming the Clock. Taming the Clock by keeping our word (April), Taming the Clock around town (May), and Taming the Clock at home (June). Today we begin a new quarter talking about Taming the Coin. We will talk about priorities in July, general Money Talk in August, and being a positive rebel against Societal expectations in September. I chose the months often known as "summertime" in the western world because these months typically land between the end of schooltime fiscal years and the beginning of schooltime fiscal years. In Canada, "summer holidays" tend to run from the end of June to the end of August. Colleges and Universities in Canada let out in May. In the US most schools let out in May and go back somewhere in August. But summertime, similar to Christmastime, spending gets a bit looser and priorities can end up going by the wayside in the name of fun. As single moms, we need to be strategic about our finances at all times of the year and perhaps even more-so during times when others around us are more spendthrifty than normal. Click To Tweet Because the first week of July encompasses two different national holidays: Canada Day on July 1st, and the USA's Independence Day on July 4th, I marked this week in my content calendar to talk about "fun stuff". Read the full article
