Budget Bags

Our "snow" day turned out to be a day sans snow. Either way--I got the day off! That's the good news! The bad news: the women's retreat was cancelled due to icy roads. But I made the best of it. Because of the women's retreat, I originally had two days of a full agenda. When I found out that was cancelled, I had two days free! I decided to spend my time making budget envelopes. We abide by the Dave Ramsey plan, which includes using a system of envelopes to keep track of cash, which is how we pay for everything (in addition to debit cards, if you choose--but no credit cards!)

Our envelopes were a little worse for the wear and we keep having to replace them. So I decided to make some cute envelopes that will last!

Here is the "before"--what we've been using:

And the new budget envelopes:

I quite like them a lot! I'd seen the fabric at Hobby Lobby many times and have been dying to use it on something, so I was glad to finally have a project to use it on!

These beautiful bags make the budget a bit more bearable!*

*Today's post has been brought to you by the letter B!*