After reading Maliha’s EXCELLENT post Money Matters I’ve been inspired – much to husband’s utter disgust, we are now on a strict budget.
Him: “So what happens if we run out of stuff in the middle of the week?”
Her: “Well, we’ll just open up a can of something.”
Ok so now I’ve had to endure his smart-alecky comments the whole week:
“Oh look, we’re running out of toilet paper – we better just open up a can!”
“Hmmm looks like we need to open a can of envelopes.”
“.. can of milk”, ” .. can of bread”,
If he keeps this up any longer, I’m opening up a can of my own…..
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Wanna see a can of bread?
http://flakmag.com/misc/bmbread.html
>:D
I don’t know about the rest of that site, but that article is really amusing.
Hehe. I just hope husband doesn’t read it – he’s going to want to get some “just in case we run out.”
Hahaha!
I knew that was coming as soon as I read the rest of the post, but still funny.
I need to start budgetting..
-Aly
Salaamat,
Tasmiya definitely check out Dave Ramsey’s “Total Money makeover” you’ll get some really good tips on budget/saving/work sheets. I heard the other book by him goes into more details it’s called “Financial peace”.
Don’t buy it; your local library must have a copy.
Either way, I am happy that post inspired you to start the budget:) The adage is “If you don’t tell your money where to go; it goes everywhere else” (or something like that…)
About hubby; humor him:) I drag my hubby into all my new projects; and he comes at first unwillingly with much sarcasm, but when he sees it working he is the first to pretend he was on board since the beginning.
*rolls eyes*
Don’t forget:
- “I’ve just saved us 3 cents!”
- “Sorry, cannot help you with that … it would set me back 2 cents!”
- “Maybe we can open up a can of *Islamic Home Loan*”
Don’t forget, Tasmiya’s husband, that since you are in Australia and there’s no more penny, you must round up to the nearest nickel!
You opened up a can of worms lol.
I think you may be right, brother. Best for me to just can it