Sometimes a concept takes a long time to percolate into it’s ‘home base’ in your brain.

My partner and I have been working with a tighter than usual budget lately and rooting out the cause was becoming a near obsession for me.  We are settling into a new routine, trying to keep ‘good enough’ records without following a “Your Money or Your Life” level of detail.  I get stressed, because I am the detail partner.

Through several of these discussions, he has, less than helpfully, stated that when we move he is going to look for a lower rent.  Finally today, I was eating lunch, when it struck me that just $250 more per month really would grease the gears of our spending plan.  We are meeting our needs; it is just taking more attention than I would like.

Well, we have been in our current house for five months now.  Our current fixed costs (house related) are $400 higher than our last house.  OF COURSE my partner wants to change that when our lease is up.  I just couldn’t see the connection, because the spending plan change didn’t ache until these past two months.

I derive two life.hacks from this situation: PATIENCE with my process and my husband’s different process and two REMEMBER TO ENJOY my newer, brighter, bigger space.  I chose to spend a significantly bigger portion of my monthly money on our physical space.  I just have to remember that when I am turning down invitations out at the end of the month.