My husband worked overtime, so it's a good thing to see a "negative" amount in the income difference column- that means he earned that much over our budget. Of course, that also means we had to give more for taxes. On the plus side, that's more money donated to charity and our retirement account too.
The one thing we really did go over budget on this week was clothing- my husband really needed some new pants, and we didn't have enough in savings, so that came from the paycheck overage instead. Ideally, I would like to never have to take from the paycheck overage, because I'd like that overage to be distributed across all of our "discretionary funds", but sometimes it happens. At least we didn't pay for it with money we didn't have.
The paycheck overage also helped us "catch up" where we had gone over budget previously for our dog (we had him neutered). And we should have enough to put new tires on our car, which it has needed for awhile. Yay!
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