February budget summary

February was a surprisingly good budget month. For reference, I only track our monthly numbers in these posts. I'll do a more detailed run down of how we're doing with our yearly numbers (travel, house, kids, clothes, etc) in a separate post.

So, drumroll, we were under our monthly budget by $120. I'm shocked!

We were over in some categories:

• Childcare, by $414. I've started booking summer camps.
• Dining out by $212. A few birthday meals (mine & Sam's) killed us. 
• Toiletries, by $90. I stocked up before my Tokyo trip, and bought a bunch of over the counter medicine that I didn't have last time, plus face wash, etc. 

But, we were under in lots of other categories:

• Cleaning by $210. Our cleaning lady went out of town unexpectedly, and we took care of it ourselves.
• Gas by $153. 
• Groceries by $18. Helped that we were out of town for a long weekend
• Utilities by $444. Only because our billing cycles fell in January & March, due to the shortened February month.

We're having to make major updates to our monthly budget to accommodate our tax withholding changes, so look for a revised (and much smaller) monthly budget soon.

How did you do in February? Did you spend more or less than you'd planned?