Wondering on Wednesday: July Events

This is a GREAT question, and I love it even more because this morning, I was actually sitting in the waiting room of my local mechanic, writing out my budget and making adjustments. An elderly gentleman looked over and said, "Looks like you've got a lot of work there...", and I said, "Oh, it's not so bad. I'm just using this time to plan out my household budget between now and next January." He laughed and said, "People your age actually make out budgets??" LOL

July, thankfully, is going to be a very calm month for us. We have my parents visiting from out-of-state at the every end of the month, but a visit from them is a joy. They are very frugal folks, and they just enjoy relaxing with family. So no fancy dinners out or expensive theme parks or anything like that. I told them we could swim each day in our pool, and I'd cook some nice meals on our grill (they don't have a grill at home, so this is a treat they're looking forward to bigtime!), and they have asked if we could all play some board games together, maybe watch a DVD move with some popcorn together, and the only shopping they want to do is a trip to my local Goodwill to see what type of "treasures" they can find, and that's it. So, it's definitely not a budget-buster. :-D

Pat

Nothing too crazy. It's a busy time for us at work so I don;t have vacation until mid August. BF may be working from home for a few weeks because he has to have some special physiotherapy sessions and do home exercises that will bring on vertigo. It's not really possible for him to go to work when he feels dizzy like this and he has to do the exercises 5 times a day. At least work is very accommodating and this way he won't have to use all his sick and vacation time.
No birthdays or anything coming up until September.
I have already prepaid for all my ballet classes until the end of July so all good there. While BF is working at home I will ride my bike to work every day. This will save on gas and be a nice way for my friend and I to decompress after a long day.
We may have a friend over for one of our Friday burger nights but that's not really any added expense since I already have the food here and she will bring some beer.
I'll be teaching my bike buddy how to knit sometime inn July too. We'll start her off with something simple like a dishcloth so she will have us over for dinner that night no big expense there except maybe a bottle of wine as a hostess gift and I have some stashed away for that.

I think July will be a good month for saving some money!

Nathalie