Have you ever had to stop a habit and try to replace it?

Yes, family needs much more attention than friends and relatives once a person gets married.

Yeah going out with friends is enjoyable. Especially when we are bored and don't have much to do at home. Glad to hear that things are going the way that you would like them too. That you are able to work and focus on your family.

You just need to adjust yourself, at first it is really hard since you are not used to it. But when time goes by,you will find yourself enjoying with your family.The happiness that family gives to you really differ from others.

I hope that you are doing better with your shopping. Shopping though is very fun especially when you have the money to buy something you want. It is hard to keep that in check. For me it's hard with shopping online. I just love to receive things in the mail. And my wishlist for Amazon is like 15 pages long. But I try to limit myself to only so much every few months with items that qualify for free shipping.

I have it under control-- because I don't have a job and I really don't feel like buying anything from my online earnings other than buying food for my kids or other stuff that they need in school. Being a stay at home mom tamed me!

I'm glad that you have it under control. I'm doing so much better. Especially since we had like five emergencies happen all in the same time period, it really put my thoughts of having a better savings in check. I do not want to go through those things again. I only work six hours a week outside the house and so when I had the little money I often wanted to buy myself something. But now I'm working to save it and am becoming a more tame stay at home mom as well.

Unfortunately my husband hardly ever buys us anything. I know that I need to save the money for my daughter and I when we separate. It will cost a lot of money to move and get into our own place and to keep up with all the bills. So whenever I'm tempted to buy him something I often have to remind myself of that. Yes, I agree with you that I shouldn't buy things for people who don't want to be around or apart of my life. I have tried to hard to make things work and it doesn't work out. He just ends up being unappreciative of my efforts anyway. So it is best to set it aside for savings account like you said. And I'm sure it will start to add up.

I agree with all that you said. So my savings will have to continue to grow since there are so many things that I will have to try to take care of. My husband doesn't want to pay child support but I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have a choice with the way things work now a days. So I just let him think what he wants too until that time comes. It is sad that some people don't want to take care of their responsibilities. But I will do my best to prepare to take care of my daughter and I.

Yeah I agree with you. Impulse buying is not a good thing. Usually for us it's some restaurant take out that he likes or a special coffee from a cafe shop. Which we really don't need. I have done good recently. I plan to keep working at saving and not spend any money unnecessarily.

Yeah shopping can be really found. My husband would be upset as well if I bought a certain type of dress when a new style came out. Right now I have to work hard at not shopping since I'm trying to save. This is not an easy thing to do.

Thanks for your suggestion. I appreciate. I like to buy my family and friends gift. It is I guess one of my hobbies. I like to get people things that they like or something that interest them. Unfortunately though my husband would never go to therapy. He would laugh at me if I even mentioned. And the one big problem is that he is a person that isn't willing to make adjustments or changes because he doesn't want to. So therapy for us would be a waste of money because if he went he would not plan on applying anything he learned.

That is good that you both advise each other. It is very easy to overspend when out. That is one good thing about not going out often because we will more than likely see something we like at that moment. I will have to keep working on this so that I watch how much money I spend. Yes it is good to buy insurance.

Yeah it is good to adjust our habits. It does help us to improve ourselves when we are striving to meet different goals. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate it. Have a great evening.

Glad to hear that you were able to stop watching tv and that you started reading for school. TV is more entertaining but school work is important. I will continue to work on saving. We really need to get our savings going.

Glad to hear that you have outgrown your habit. That is a good thing. Habits are really hard to break. It is said that if we do something for 21 straight days it becomes a habit. So we do have many habits whether good or bad. We've got to work on the good ones.