Lately, we've been doing things last minute and it's affecting our budgeting activities.

As an example, we made a decision last minute to attend a Monster Jam event. After the tickets, the food, the hotel, it came to around $500 for the weekend. We decided on Wednesday to attend on Saturday and it wasn't included in the month's budgeting activities at all.

Do you budget for these kinds of things in advance? I feel like we don't do a ton of things, maybe once a quarter and I should be adding it to the budget forecast, but I am not sure how. It's also the season of weekend fundraising carnivals and fairs, a ton of things happening, most of them require some kind of payment, whether it be admissions or pay per use rides.

Then I look at the seasonal stuff, like the annual Pumpkin Blaze, the holiday events, etc. I can't keep it all straight!

What do you do?