I just hate cutting back on things. I’m not a big shopper in general, but I do splurge on my dogs. Right now though, I’m fluctuating between resigning myself to the fact that I need to change our plans for trialing the next little while…and then fighting to figure out a way to still do some of the trials, even though it’s not really very realistic. So, I’m looking for any other areas that I can cut back that don’t affect my dog stuff. LOL

Tuesday my husband went in and filed for unemployment, while I sat at home and went through the bills trying to figure out where we could cut back. It’s funny his gut reaction is to buy stuff when we don’t have extra money, and mine is the opposite…well, except for the dog stuff, I think I already mentioned that. LOL I’m ready to start looking at all the free online coupons out there to see if I can save money. Meanwhile, I keep watching to see if he’s going to get on Ebay or Amazon or something and buy some little electronic thing because it makes him feel better. I’m going to have to hide the Best Buys coupons from him.

I don’t think that we’ll be needing any restaurant coupons anytime soon. I did notice when I went over our expenses that one of the places we tend to waste money is on eating out. Not at fancy nice places, but just grabbing junk fast food on the run. We’ve been doing better since we’ve been trying to get back on track with eating better, but still it seems to really be a place I think we could cut back. Anyway, enough boring talk about cutting back, I promise to post something more interesting about training with the dogs later today!