At least the bills are paid, and I can sit back and relax for another week without stressing about it.  Actually with Hubby’s work situation right now I thought I’d be stressing about money constantly, but things have seemed to work themselves out. 

He’s not going to be constantly out of work for 5 weeks like we thought.  He’s getting to work about every other day to every 2 days now depending on when materials are delivered and stuff like that.  It’s leaving us with enough of a paycheck to definitely keep the bills paid, and that’s keeping me from stressing out.  It definitely wouldn’t be good for the munchkin if I was stressed to high heaven.

Luckily I also tend to forget when I stash cash away for emergencies sometimes or even for a let’s go on vacation fund.  I’ll stick a little cash in an envelope in a drawer or a book, and I’ll forget about it until I decide to go on a major cleaning spree.  That’s happened again this time, and I’ve found quite a few little hiding spots I had forgotten about that I must have tucked money into last year when we were saving for a vacation.  We ended up taking advantage of some great travel deals that saved us a lot of cash, so I never really needed to go looking for what I’d tucked away.

I know it’s a bad habit, and I really need to stop it. I just hate sticking that extra cash in the bank because I know it’ll end up getting spent whether I want it to or not. Even my savings account gets raided during critical times, but I always knows I can most likely find some hidden cash around here somewhere when times get tough.  Of course with the baby on the way I seriously doubt I’ll have the extra funds to tuck away like I would have in the past, so that’ll help me kick the money hiding habit.