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Monday Accountability Post
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress towards your goals?
3. Happy St. Patty's Day! How are you celebrating?
Re: Monday Accountability Post
How MM was your weekend?
Friday- $1.28 Rebox
$45 Dinner
Saturday- $0
Sunday- $0
Total-$46.28 Pretty good!
Any progress towards goals?
We got our state tax return back $441, so we threw that into our house DP account. We were also able to put extra money into our e-fund.
We also made some money this weekend! He taught at work for $20/hr, and I was able to help out for $15/hr so that was exciting. Also, I posted 4 video games on Amazon Saturday night, and I sold 2 of the by Sunday! I'm so excited! Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm going to see what other small things I can find to sell.
How am I celebrating St. Patty's day?
I celebrated yesterday by going to my parents for some corned beef and cabbage and a yummy green St. Patty's day dessert my sister made!
Pretty spendy on the Eating Out side of things, but still completely within my envelope budget, otherwise awesome. And I've packs all my breakfasts and lunches for the week which should even things out a bit.
ETA: I did sell a few things, and cleaned off a bookshelf with some books to sell today!
Paid off a loan on Friday. Today I will hit my EF goal!
By babysitting a Frat Party...
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2. All other progress will be on hold while I rebuild the car e-fund to $500.
3. My gym is offering a free barre class tonight (get it? St. Paddys at the bar!) so that's where I'll be!
1. Not good. I somehow agreed to spending 180 on 2 pairs of good sunglasses for us. He was going to spend 150 on something for him and he decided to get me a pair too and he was pretty much staring at me cus he said i looked really hott in them. So i couldn't argue. lol 30 bucks over budget though. Then my husbands tire is losing air pretty quick and he's gotta take it in this afternoon to be fixed - i'm really hoping it just needs to be plugged is all. And to top it off i spent 40 over on groceries. I bought lunches for my husband so he wouldn't need to buy lunch because he's already spent 100 out of his 80 dollar budget and its only the 15th.... but i forgot to even tell him so now he's gotta spend more money.
2. No we're taking money from our goal instead. OY!
3. I forgot it was St. Patti's day today! We had a few drinks on saturday which will probably be the extent of our celebrating.
1. How MM was your weekend?
It wasn't great, my dad is in the hospital so I spent a lot of time there with him this weekend which meant parking fees and buying food at the hospital every day. Not to mention 2 gas purchases from driving 100+ miles a day to see him.
Pretty good! Groceries and household item all in budget. One splurge for some TimBits :-)
2. Any progress towards your goals?
Yes! Paid off a credit card!! It feels so amazing! Also added to our EFund.
3. Happy St. Patty's Day! How are you celebrating?
We did most of our celebrating yesterday with the kids. I was in a rush to get to an appointment this morning I didn't even think about wearing green.
1) Very, very bad. Our car kicked the bucket on Friday after 6 years and 130k miles. H kind of drove it into the ground for work. We knew it was going to happen eventually but the transmission started to fail big time. We ended up purchasing a new car. We had talked ourselves up and down about getting a used one but for various reason we went with new. We put 5k down, got trade in $ towards it from our crap car, and got a very low interest loan. We could have paid for it in cash but I would just rather have that $ as the house DP fund. I know, I know...We can pay it off pretty fast though.
2) Obviously not, see answer #1, lol.
3) I have no interest in St. Patty's day. Not sure why, I just never have.
@SmrBrd2012, that doesn't sound so awful. If your H needs to drive it for work, starting with low mileage makes sense. Also, aren't you from MA too? I had no luck finding good used cars when I was looking. They cost almost as much as new.
Yep, I'm in MA. You're right- good newish used cars were comparable in price to some of the brand new ones! Just made more sense to go with a new one. We are really excited about it but not so excited about it taking a chunk out of our DP fund. It wasn't a terrible deal and I'm legitimizing it further by the fact that we ARE a one-car couple at least.
Thank you! We're hoping he gets released soon!
Edited because I apparently cannot spell.
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I'm jealous! Where did you cruise to?
2) Trying to pay off MW's car, it has 40k on it and causing problems (it is a PT Crusier).
3) Drinking beer at home.