We do spend a lot on cars and pets. We drive our cars until they die usually. Our cars were both 20 years old and died on us, so we had to purchase a new set of used cars for both of us. Not ideal to have two car payments at the same time.

I’ll talk to my spouse about working on our food budget. That’s a good point.

We do live in an area with a lot of bugs. We tried giving up pest control and it didn’t work out well. We still get bugs inside with it.

I’ll look into mint mobile. I have been wanting to change phone plans due to the high rate.