Budgeting is an Over Statement:

Let’s face it; few of us can actually maintain a budget. Something always turns up, whether it’s voluntarily or just its one of those thing that you got to have it. So the 64,000 dollars question is, why on earth do we even bother maintaining a budget?

For example, my hubby and I are into movies, we are deeply into them, I mean literally, if there aren’t movie that month, we would make one with our own handy cam, just to maintain the feeling.

So the budget goes like these, we would spend not more than RO 25 per month on movies, that’s include Cinemas and rental. Instead its something around RO 50, we have this crave of TV series, at least in a single month we would order two TV series, and if that month Shatti decided to join the world and show some mega box office hits than that so called budget would double. Really, you can’t just say, “I will skip Lord of the Rings, as I have exceeded my budget for this month”, how ridiculous would that be!

The funny is, it takes one major screw up on a certain budget that causes a series of chain reaction before you know it the rest of your budget is long gone.

Picture this, more movies, means more travel to the theatre or to the DVD rental shop, which means more gas for the car, which means more family visit to discuss or show them your latest DVD collection, which means more magazine or entertainment magazine to keep up to date with the latest so that you would not sound stupid in front of the family members when a member discusses other movie he or she saw. More cinemas, means more pop corn, more cinemas means more dining out, especially when watching those movies that start at 7 pm and ends at 9 pm.

And before you know it, your entire budget scheme is left to the gutters!.

How many of you actually maintain a budget and actually succeeds in doing so?