February 2017 FrugalMaster Results
Nothing much out of the ordinary here the Dividend Family Guy household except for saving 45% of my income. I still plan on saving more once my son gets a job this summer and pays for his car insurance. On top of that I will be dropping TV as soon as my contact expires in the summer. Worst case I will get sling TV for the family at $20/month but I hope to convince them hobbies are better. Until then I will keep on saving as much as I can because in April I will be able to contribute to my 401k. Once that starts I have 9 months to sock away 18K to max it out (and to collect the employer match). They have yet to show me what funds are available but I am hoping for some low cost index fund choices. The only change this month was further simplification of my categories. To simplify things (and match up to default categories in Mint), I combined groceries and eating out into one budget. So for the month I was $89 over which is from addition...