February's expenses

Has it been a month already? I feel like it just flew by. February is a special month. This month, we celebrated my birthday, Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day and it's also a leap year so we get an extra day this month. Growing up, we didn't have a lot of money, and allowances were not given. I always look forward to Lunar New Year the only time I can get some spending money.
This month, we also did something really brave. WE'RE MOVING OUT! My mother in law takes care of my baby, but she lives 33 miles away. That's a 66 miles commute for my little baby everyday That's just too much, so we're moving to be closer to her. Now, I'll be commuting instead of her. Even after moving to a different office, my daily commute will be 48 miles total. I'm so not looking forward to that. But, you gotta do what you gotta do. We're also paying more in rent, now we really need to find a way to stick to a budget. 

We're using our credit card to pay for pretty much everything except gas at Costco and our shared utilities. 

FIXED
Rent	600	current, new rent will be 1200 :(. Paying rent hurts.
Life ins	253
Car note	200	I really want to pay off this car
baby care	500
SEMI FIXED
Gas	328
Groceries	248
Utilities	28
Trash	140	Paying for tenent's left over bill and I'm covering trash for the new tenet
Dinning out	64
TARGET	356	100 of that was paid giftcards
CLOTHES
Thredup	84
HEALTH
Dr copay	15
optometrist	158
SPECIAL EXPENSES
Bday cake	30
New Year	750	My parents were generous, so we pretty much even out on this one.
deposit for apt	1200
Mammoth	407	but we should be getting something back
Disney pass	1700
BABYGEAR	133	95 of that was paid with gift cards.
TOTAL	7194
subtract gift cards	195
	6999	Holy S**t this is a lot of money.

I can't believe we spent that much money in just one month. We barely bring home half of that. This goes to show when you start writing things down, little things here and there really adds up. Luckily, the money spent in SPECIAL EXPENSES are just a one time thing. Although it's a pain the butt to write everything down, I'm going to keep doing it, or try to anyways. I feel like once I see the bigger number, I'll be less incline to spend. 

**** My uncle finally paid us for the car we sold him. $4000. We're using that to pay my MIL-$500, March's $1200 rent, $2000 will be used to pay off some of the car loan, and $800 will go toward the credit card bill.  

March isn't going to be a lean month neither. We're moving into our new places and it's going to incur some expenses.