mirrajaj - LOL at the Shandy comment (sips another). Thanks for the advice on the budget. I saw the 3 budgets that one of our kind members drew up in another post. I remember reading that if your budget is a little shaky you should include more details. So I had never even looked at the first budget spreadsheet and didn't realize that it was already sorted out by what is included and what's not included. That helps so much and thanks for pointing it out because the Budget #2 and Budget #3 are not separated out in that fashion.
As far as the minimum amounts making sense, even a few shandys to the wind, the minimum makes sense (I just pulled those numbers out of my hat). Since I'm actually a 3 person family, I believe I read in some another post that my monthly minimum would be a little less than 630. When I use the Budget #1 spreadsheet, I show that me and my husband have a little over 900 left
before all the nonessentials. I will definitely use that format for the budget I send off with my application (I'm just gonna add a few things into that are more specific for my family).
Thank you Jesus for letting me find this forum
before I applied for my visa or else I would have been