My 2010 resolution was to hammer down our finances and our budget. Quickbooks was broken out last night, for a final round before the year ends, and there’s a couple more tweeks needed to come to a hard conclusion.

I want to exclude all toy expenses and rental costs. I have enough wrapped up in toys that I don’t need more, and when I get tired of the ones I have, I’ll have to the time to sell them for what ever new junk I want. Rent will be out of the picture with a paid off home under my belt.

I want to see what food, utilities and clothes cost. We lived frugally, as we normally would have through 2010, though we didn’t try and break ourselves down in order to spend the bear minimus. There’s some savings that can easily be had if we wanted… For instance Turkeys were $5 after Thankgiving those suckers are GOOD deep fried, and they will last a year in the freezer. I hunt and fish, and with some extra TIME laying around, I think all of these things can bring the food bill way down, maybe by 25-40% or so, and we would be eating better to boot.

So, I think I can deduce what our lifestyle would cost minus the extra Health insurance bill and the payed of house maintenance that we’d incur. Fuel cost would drop dramatically, I want to say the work clothes bill would drop too, but I work in pants a t-shirt so there wouldn’t be a change.

What have I missed, besides the cost of a kid or two? (insert sarcasm here)