and we're out

Is it just my family or does this happen in your family too?  It seems like I run out of everything all at once.  Like all of a sudden we are out of all the more expensive things I purchase.  These things are totally unrelated (batteries, frozen fruit for smoothies, paper towels, toilet paper) but yet here they are all conspiring against me.  So, in the midst of the money bleed that is Christmas I have to fit $60 worth of stuff that I don't have to have (except maybe toilet paper, but I'm a tp snob and will not buy the cheap stuff.  It's one of the only things I refuse to compromise) into a budget that is already short by $50.  November, December, and January are our famine months.  Come February and March our savings gets a much needed life preserver...but come these months I'm pretty much hopeless.  I can't even bring myself to look at the budget right now.  I was honest about that with Joel the other day.  I told him I was going to buy what we needed and look at the savings account come February.  Okay, that's not actually true but it felt really good to tell him that.  I'll look at the budget after Christmas shopping is done, have a mild coronary, make myself pinky-swear my excel spreadsheet that I'll promise to do better, plan out our tax return, and then try to stick with the budget until February.  That's usually how it REALLY goes.  For now, I'm getting what needs to be got and I'm letting it go.