daily, weekly, or monthly budget?

Actually it depends on our income for the month. My husband is earning a fixed income but most of the other expenses comes from my contribution. If I am able to earn more, we are able to purchase more. There are times when we buy for the whole month but mostly the things we bought are dried stuffs. We buy chicken, meat, fish and vegetables on weekly basis so that we can get it fresh. Furthermore our fridge is small and couldn't cater room for the whole month. Now I am not very interested to take care about our spending because we are short of money. When we have the money, we would go to the supermarket and buy stuffs. If not we would just survive by eating whatever we can from our previous buying. I have always kept food in my cabinet for rainy days and when emergency time like this happens it always helps to have enough food supply.

Well, I have a monthly budget, which I try to count every week so that I won't go over budget. When I still had a full-time job, however, I didn't have a monthly budget for grocery or anything. Instead, I had a monthly savings budget, so I could do anything with the rest of the money, though I still preferred spending less and saving more he he he... Now that I'm unemployed, I have to be really careful with my grocery and shopping budget. For example: I try to buy used clothes or buy clothes only when there's a 50-70% discount. It's harder to cut the budget on grocery since I do want us to eat healthy food, but I try not to buy too much snack or Coke or anything like that...instead I prefer yoghurt and milk and fruit...but I always try to buy the cheapest brand or when there's a discount.