How much money have we saved up in our slush fund for a feast? I'm going to find out.

Every day of our 10for10for10 project we aim to spend only a dollar a day per person on food here in Boothieville.  Whenever we have a few pennies left in our $10 budget, I am adding up the savings for special treats or special meals.

Since we are eating for a dollar a day, when we have fewer people we have a smaller budget.  When we have extras at home, as when our college kids were home on their spring break, we expand the budget one dollar for each person.

Here is a look at our budget situation since week 2:

Day 15:  5.71  ------------------4.29
Day 16:  10.71 -----------------(.17)
Day 17:  9.80  -----------------.20
Day 18:  7.33  -----------------2.67
Day 19:  9.52  -----------------.48
Day 20:  10.06  ---------------(.06)
Day 21:  5.08  -----------------4.92
Day 22:  7.46  -----------------2.54
Day 23:  9.71  -----------------.29
Day 24:  8.36  -----------------1.64
Day 25:  8.99  -----------------1.01
Day 26:  9.71  -----------------.29
Day 27  9.75  ------------------.25
Day 28:  4.02  -----------------5.98
Day 29:  9.59  -----------------.41
Day 30:  13.67-----------------(1.67)    12 people this day
Day 31:  11.98-----------------.02    12 people  home
Day 32:  11.85-----------------1.15    13 people here, with Grandma B
Day 33:  13.14-----------------(1.15)   13 and then 12 Boothies today
Day 34:  9.77 ------------------2.23    12 people home today
Day 35:  10.59-----------------.41     11 Boothies home today, Peter leaves
Day 36:  10.70----------------- 00     11 Boothies until Annie leaves
Day 37:  9.07 ------------------.93     !0 Boothies home, back to normal
Day 38:  9.84 ------------------.16
Day 39:  9.75 ------------------.25
Day 40:  9.50 ------------------.50
Day 41:  9.22 ------------------(.22)   8 people today
Day 42:  4.90 ------------------2.10    7 people home
Day 43:  7.10 ------------------ 00       7 people and then 8 when Rodger returns
Day 44:  7.90 ------------------.10     8 people home
Day 45:  7.90 ------------------.10     8 people home today
Day 46:  7.61 ------------------.39    8 Boothies home today
Day 47:  11.31----------------- (.31)  8 Boothies plus 4 guests
Day 48:  6.59 ------------------1.41   8 Boothies home today, twins arrive after dinner
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The saved pennies add up:  $31.56  is the total from the right hand column.  I subtracted the numbers in parentheses for the days I went over budget. 

I also need to subtract the 5 dollars which I donated to the church for their snack budget (read about that on my post for Day 22), so 31.56-5.00=$26.56 in the slush fund.  This is the amount I have saved up for treats and holidays.

This is much better than I thought!  Wow.    $26.56 in the slush fund.

I also have $1.56 left in the slush fund from our first two weeks of 10for10for10 .   Read about that on my early blog post on March 4th.

26.56 + 1.56 = $28.12.  There you have it!  I'm excited.

I'm using some of my slush fund for the Easter Holiday, one of our most important celebrations.