5 days of budgeting . . . how am I doing?

I'm on Day 5 of my May budget . . . already pretty aware of what I'm doing right and what I need to pull back on . . .

I've already spent half of my food and household supplies budget ($125.00 and I've spent $63.71).

I've already spent $20.00 on my dining out budget of $75.00 - mostly on Starbucks.

And I've already had an unbudgeted expense arise - a vet visit for my kitten that cost me $65.

So I need to take a look at how things are going. First of all, I need to cut back on the coffee. My challenge for the next three work days (I'm off Friday) is to bring my own coffee or tea.

For the groceries, I think I'm set for the rest of this work week . . . except I need to pick up some veggies for a soup I'm making but that'll be cheap (a couple carrots and a potato). However, next weekend SB and I are going camping for 4 days (3 nights). I need to be extremely frugal in my shopping for that trip.

I've been extremely good on my personal spending budget of $50.00 - haven't spent a dime there . . . nor have I spent anything on my hair budget (also $50.00) although I'm tempted to get my hair cut I'll put it off another month - I want to go shorter. I just got my hair done about 4 weeks ago so I don't NEED it.

Right now I just need to look into adjusting my budget to cover Luna's vet expenses. I have set aside $40 for unexpected car expenses so I'll probably use that . . . and 12.50 from each my personal and dining out budget (grrr!).

I feel good about my budget though. Twice in the last few days I have been at a mall and walked out completely empty handed. Also - another major success of the last few days is that I paid all my credit cards ON TIME. Next month I'll have one of them paid all the way off!!!