This is how buying lunch works in our school system:

Parents deposit dollars into their child’s lunch account at school.
Every time a kid buys lunch, the cost is subtracted from the balance.
When the account is close to zero, parents get a notice from the school cafeteria to send in more lunch money.
And the cycle continues.

This system […]

With the holidays fast approaching, I am trying to proactively control my spending.
One interesting article that I came across is called Fiscal Fitness: Eliminate Debt with 10 Successful Diet Principles at ZenHabits.net
Huh? Diet and debt? What do they have to do with each other? But as you think about it further, there really are similarities. […]