How are your dogs able to hold their bladder for that long? My dog has to be let out of the house to use the bathroom. I work 12 hour shifts, that’s too long to not let my dog to go the bathroom.

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.

We both work on site and can’t come home for lunch to give our dog a walk. Our dog is a poodle due to allergies, so it requires grooming every 6-8 weeks. Can’t get out of that.

Yes I do agree that we spend a lot on cars and our pet. I wish there was public transit in our city. We bought both of our cars used and commute to work. We are the type of people who buy a car and drive it until it dies. We are looking forward to paying them off and having that flexibility in our budget.

Do you think we have enough wiggle room in our budget to increase contributions?