Breaking even in 6 months - Week 1 Day 5

So yesterday, forgive me, but was unable to post.  I was at a family event for most of the day, so there was my fun activity (if you want to call it fun).  Mostly I spell family events - STRESS or it can also be referred to as DRAMA.

My husband and I used the bank card to put gas in the car, we were on E.  As most people would say, so what, well if you remember I had $4 in my account and pumped $80.  Thank God we were paid today.  Instead of having to drive 30 minutes away to pull money out of our account (our account is in another state so we have to use a share branch for our credit union) I decided to pull $100 dollars out of the account at a time at Walmart.  We have a $300 limit we can withdraw on debit.  So I got roughly $280 out of the bank.

Our fun thing tonight was Pizza.  We spent $12 on pizza.  Also because my father guilted me into making him a pie, I went and bought the stuff for a pie, some ice, and shame on me, I bought some ice cream.  Also some cheese, because apparently even though we are going to another family members house for thanksgiving dinner (which once again I was guilted into and would much rather make dinner at home) I now have to provide food for my own children and was asked to bring mac and cheese.  Let me explain this one: the family member that is providing the dinner has no children and my family is large, she is also very frugal, shoot lets just say it, she is cheap.  So everything she buys is from a garage sale or the cheapest thing you can find, which please understand me, garage sales are great and finding things on sale are great, however she goes to an extreme.  So when she asked me to come, she didn't want to have to provide for 7 of us when there are only two of them, and my parents which are two more.  Kinda crappy.

Anyway, so our paycheck was sitting at $950 after gas so here will be the break down:

Rent - 850 (even though we are suppose to be sending a 1000, but keep in mind, we got shorted on the check, we plan to make this up in two weeks_
Car payment - 200

So we will have to over draw the account.  I am hoping to have them with draw on Friday of next week, but that puts us late and still over drafts the account as I only got 16 hours on my check next week.

So far, not so good...but this is why I am looking at 6 months to dig myself out of this pit.

As for the bikes, my husband says he will fix it, and then on with my plan!!