The Beginning

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Name: Jessica

Days Engaged: 12

Days Until Wedding: 261-ish.

Money in the bank: Not-a-lot-ish.

Nearly diagnosable condition: Foodie

Problem: (Please see above)

Solution: Finding $5 or less lunches every day until my wedding to save money

How’s that for an introduction? So the good news is, I’m very happily, newly engaged to the one who was made for me. Couldn’t be happier. Couldn’t be with anyone better!

And really, the “problem” doesn’t compare to the good news. However, in an attempt to do what I should have been doing for a long time, I’m starting this blog to chronicle my attempt to save money, now that we’re looking at a wedding and then life together. Hopefully it will inspire me and a few others to find creative ways to save a few dollars a day that can really add up over several months.

Being a foodie, $5 lunches every day doesn’t mean McDonald’s or Taco Bell. It means trying to find actually decent food that is fun and a little bit healthy. Because let’s face it, when you’re 9-to-5-ing it, what do you look forward to throughout the day? Food! What will your snack be? Where will you eat lunch? How will you make your coffee? … Is it just me? And so this will be me trying to satiate the foodie in me and still save money.

Who’s with me?