recap for september budget

We've had an unusual past 4 weeks!  It's already October 8th and I'm just now wrapping up September's books and working on the October budget.   Between my dog's knee surgery, our septic tank backing up and my son's surgery + allergies, we had several unexpected expenses in September.  BUT...luckily, we had a strong start to the month which counterbalanced our out-of-whack end of month spending! 

At the beginning of September I posted our budget for the month.  Here is how we did:

	Budget	Spent
Utilities	800	952.77
Groceries and household items	900	1194.7
Gasoline	350	130.52
Clothing	200	55
Restaurants (incld fast food/pizza)	100	118.1
Insurance	136.5	136.46
My Blow Money	100	74.84
Entmt/Rec	175	48.27
Gifts	25	70.07
Guitar lessons	100	75
Date Night	75	57.74
Haircare	100	203
Golf	75	0
Boys Commissions (Potential…)	80	43.75
Subscriptions	25	98.33
School lunches	50	0
School expenses	200	209.58
Dry Cleaning	30	8.72
Boy Scouts	147	48
Vet Bill - surgery	2300	2285
House Maintenance	0	815.31

Notes:
Gasoline - I'm certain that we spent more than this.  When Mr. Steady fills up the cars he forgets to give me the receipts.  My guess would be that we need to add $150 to this number.
Gifts - Went way over because we had 2 parties the boys were invited to this month that I hadn't expected.
Entertainment/Rec - Way under because we decided as a family not to go to a golf tournament and instead put the $ towards a different activity.
Groceries - I never got my cash for the month.  Paying with a debit card will never keep my on budget.
Subscriptions - Norton software had to get renewed this month.  Forgot about it when making the budget!
Clothes - Getting rolled over to October.  It never cooled off enough for me to buy the boys new jeans.
Haircare - I get color put on my hair every 4 weeks and this happened to be a month where I needed to go twice.  Another thing I overlooked when making the budget!
Maintenance - The septic tank needed pumping and I bought a new vacuum cleaner to help control the dog hair that my son's allergic to.

Overall, I'm happy with the numbers we had for September.  We managed to save some money and are still on track of our savings goal for the end of the year.  I've updated my sidebar to reflect it.  I need to sit down and make our budget for what remains of October, and I'll let you know tomorrow how I did on my non-financial September goals!

THANK YOU for all of our comments about my son's allergies.  I just replied to everyone in that Comments Section of the post.