Natalie+&+Sidne+Budget

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This is our budget project.

WRITE-UP: Our budget project was very successful! We managed to save up enough money to live, for school, and extra money that we can have for other necessities that we may come across. We are choosing to live in the Aztec Pacific apartments. These apartments best suited our situation because it is within walking distance of San Diego State University. We recieved a discount on our first month's rent(half off), which was definitley a benifit for us! We spent out money on all our living expenses and other necessities. All of these expenses include: our rent, the deposit for our apartment, utilities, laundry, food, school savings, entertainment, phone, cable, internet, and savings in general. We had to pay for all of these things in order to live and be able to go to school at the same time. We spent $1472.09 in the first month and saved $27.91. This was our most expensive month because we had to pay the deposit for our apartment. The last 5 months, we spent $1295.84 and we saved $204.16. Even saving an extra $50 in our general savings, we still both managed to save an excessive amount of money. It was difficult to make decisions of our expenditures because we had to cut out some of our entertainment and extra items that we did not need. Before living on our own, we never knew how expensive things really were. This was a reality check for the both of us. After realizing that we could cut back on those, we saw that it would be a lot easier to save up money for the things that we really needed. We had to know the correct amounts of money to spend on each section of expenditures. We have saved a good amount of money from this project. YES, we will be able to use the extra money to go to school next semester. We realized that organizing really helps keep track of the money you have and need to save. Overall, we achieved our goals of having enough money to live and to be able to go back to school for at least another semester.