{"id":817,"date":"2010-08-12T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/08\/because-you-asked-whats-in-the-envelopes.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:03:04","slug":"because-you-asked-whats-in-the-envelopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/08\/because-you-asked-whats-in-the-envelopes.html","title":{"rendered":"Because You Asked  &#8212; What&#8217;s In The Envelopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote style=\"color: blue\"><p>Colleen asked, \u201d P.S. Can you share how much cash you put in each category?  I really  want to implement this, but would like a general idea of what to spend  per month\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Colleen, I don\u2019t know what your budget will allow, but here\u2019s what we do every two weeks. Please remember that this is after doing a 2 week grocery shop. In the random order I found them in the lock box:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After Mass donuts\u00a0 $15<\/li>\n<li>gas for the cars (after payday fill-up) $40<\/li>\n<li>milk $30<\/li>\n<li>allowances $45 (allowances are per week as follows: 13 year old $10, 9 &amp; 10 year olds $5 each, 6 year old $2.50)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0eating out $40<\/li>\n<li>fresh produce for week 2 $30<\/li>\n<li>Misc. stuff $100<\/li>\n<li>toiletries (diapers, wipes, razors, soap, laundry det, etc.) $80\u00a0\u00a0 This gets an envelope because I look for sales and bargains and don\u2019t buy it all at once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen asked, \u201d P.S. 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