Some budget tweaks

A nice (cold!) day off. -4 when I got up this morning. Now it's up to 17. But sounds like this negative stuff is just for this one day - then we are back in the teens to low 30's.

I've gotten another load of laundry done and put away and vacuumed the downstairs. I'm getting my next grocery order (for Friday) worked up and added online. We have to go in to the city Friday afternoon for a follow up GI doctor appointment and it's time to also get more groceries, so nice that we can do both on the same trip.

I'm working on some tweaks to the budget, to cut down some, where possible. First was I finally and for good, canceled SiriusXM for my car. The car seriously hardly even gets driven. It's stupid to pay $6 a month for that and the year of getting it for $6 is almost up. When canceling via online chat, the bot did try to offer me $5/mo but I declined. If we drove regularly, yes, I'd use it, but we don't. 

Then working up my grocery order I made some adjustments to brands or sizes to see where I could save compared to what I normally purchase. For example: I usually buy the 18 roll package of Quilted Northern but realized the 24 roll works out to quite a bit of savings per roll and on 18 rolls, it saves $2.95 in total. Overall, for my list, I was able to reduce it by $18 vs what I had been spending/buying.

This $18 is in addition to my already change made last trip of the milk and eggs I was purchasing - I am saving a whopping $23 a month on milk and $10 on eggs (and still getting organic milk). I'm also not renewing the Costco membership and am discontinuing my multivitam (for now).

All the above works out to almost $100 a month savings and will be pretty painless, not really even noticed. I'll take the extra $1200 a year!