Budgeter Extraordinaire Part 1

I recently drastically changed the way I run my household, which is why I'm so glad Karen with THRIFTY MOMMY
decided to stop by the blog the other day...

It all started a few months ago when my husband and I moved back to the frozen tundra of North Dakota so that he could take over as the sole agent in an insurance agency in the town I grew up in.
We moved from South Dakota where I had been working as a journalist. When I realized that the job was gradually stealing my joy so much so that I felt my soul was becoming a shriveled piece of nothing, I decided to pursue my ultimate goal of investigations for the Department of Homeland Security. Once I got through the initial hiring phase of tests and interviews, I decided that I would not take the position and therefore would not have to spend 6 months, alone, in New Mexico during my training.
So I started my own investigations and recovery company, which I love and which required much more capital than I had expected in getting started.
Also with that change I went from constantly working to working out of my house and being home pretty much all day.
Well, for the time being my husband's new job has cut our income in half - that's right - in half. And until he gets more established in his new business, which could take upwards of a year, that's just the way it's going to be. So with more bills than we've ever had in our lives, we now have only half the income. Wonderful.
So it has now become my job to not only make twice as much money as I normally do on only a part time schedule but also to save the lost amount of income on all our monthly expenses.
I now spend upwards of an hour a week in my new position - Budgeter Extraordinaire.
Stayed tuned to find out what my new job duties include.