It is now Monday the 1st. For a while his paychecks happened to land on Fridays with his wife’s. But he is paid on the 1st and 15th, not every other Friday. It was coincidence that he got paid on Fridays two times in a row.
He adds his paycheck to the amount carried over and writes a check for giving and a check for the mortgage.

They do not allot anything else because they budgeted their necessities and personal money from her paycheck last Friday.

They look ahead and anticipate the car payment’s cost, so they save $325 to carry over for that expense.

This concludes the fifth week of our walk through a sample home budget.