We sat down last night and had the discussion. With surgery and hospital bills looming in the near future, we made a list of all the things that we could cut out of the monthly budget that weren’t necessities. I know that insurance will cover a good portion of what’s coming, but it’s not going to cover it all, that’s the nature of the machine. In the end it would have been cheaper to pay for a 400.00 flight to the UK and have him stay with his parents until it was done, but that wasn’t realistic with his job and whatnot.

Do we need extra cable channels, netflix, games, etc…nope, even though we have always justified them as cheap alternatives to other activities. It is definitely cheaper to pay 10 bucks a month and get movies delivered to the house that we want to see than go spend somewhere in the 30 dollar range for the 3 of us to go out to a movie. The games are the big one, but we’re also looking at the time sink that they cause.

All together if we dump everything we don’t really need, including a land line into the house (we all have cell phones so not a big deal) we could save over 2k a year in expenses. It would also free up a lot of time that gets obligated to do other things together. There are a few variants that we’re looking at, but there are definitely some changes coming to the house.