I’m sure you are thinking I’ve lost my mind. “Why does she keep talking about Christmas, for cryin’ out loud?”, I’m sure you are all thinking. Stay with me, I promise I have a point. Every year, not matter how prepared I feel like we are, we are always spending a ton of money that we don’t have right near Christmas. We don’t have credit cards, so what we spend, we spend. It’s like Dave Ramsey says, “Christmas is not a surprise emergency-it happens every December”. I saw this super awesome chart on Facebook and totally thought this would be something we could do. Basically, the 411 is….for each week-you put in that many dollars. For instance, the first week- $1, second week, you put in $2 and so on. We chose to put money in every Friday…I put the dollar amount in my planner so I don’t forget. I love it! We are using the money for our Christmas budget, so we won’t save all the way through the year, but we will have a good amount of money saved up and will still be able to eat! I know we could put it in the bank to accrue interest, but we decided a mason jar would be just dandy.

I got this off of Pinterest….no clue who made it, if you did…. thanks, it’s awesome! And you can’t click on it to enlarge it- I just copied it so you would get a general idea:)

There ya have- our plan for Christmas 2013! May not be for everyone, but we are diggin it! I am pretty excited about it. I know when we get into the year, it’s going to be costly, but we will budget for it and then we won’t freak out when we are shopping for Christmas!

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Stay classy!

~~Nicole~~