THE CHALLENGE

“In an effort to BE BETTER^TM I’m going to challenge myself to live on $250 for the entire calendar month of March”.

Ryan said it with a completely straight-face.

I nodded and smiled and made all the right encouraging noises but in my head my initial reaction was ‘why would anyone actually want to do this?!’

My wife Lee and I, both being accountants, already run monthly family budget spreadsheets that we use to regiment our spending.  We’re both pretty good with money and live within our means so we never give expenditures too too much thought unless something is completely out of whack.  I started thinking to myself, ‘you know what, I bet I’d kill at this!’

Then it came.

“Rich, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and do it for 1 week”

$56.45 for 7 days? – Challenge accepted, Mr. Lancaster.