Money Matters
jessica490
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Monday Accountability Post
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress towards goals?
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day?
Re: Monday Accountability Post
1. Friday- $23 pizza
Saturday- $28 Kayaking, $24 lunch
Sunday- $116 Kohls, AC Moore- $6, Walmart- $5
Total- $202 All paid in cash except Kohls
2. Put $500 into house act, $500 into e-fund
3. I'd rather be invisible so I could go into places that I normally couldn't to see what's going on. I don't want to know what others are thinking, that scares me.....
1. How MM was your weekend? Not bad- groceries ($94- my parents' veggie garden is in full swing, so they brought up a lot of produce for us!), Saturday lunch with DH ($20), Target ($100)
2. Any progress towards goals? Not much new. We have a CD up in August so I think we'll move it to our credit union unless our bank is willing to match. (Bank is 0.1% and the credit union is 1.15%.. both stink, but I want to keep this money relatively accessible)
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day? I guess read people's minds.. neither really seems appealing to me though. I would rather teleport or be able to fly... something like that.
1. How MM was your weekend?
It was spendy, but within reason. I did spend $300 this weekend on baby essentials, but I budgeted it from DH getting a bonus. I love unexpected money.
2. Any progress towards goals?
I was able to put away $41 towards debt payoff and I purchased a new car seat for DD and saved about $70. I'm very happy with that purchase.
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day?
Invisible. I don't want to know what people think about me.
1. How MM was your weekend? Not shabby at all. H spent $40 on car maintenance for his toy car, and I spent $12 on groceries.
2. Any progress towards goals? Put $450 aside for baby expenses.
Complete AW time: My job is partial commission and I get a really high commission on life insurance policies. I am set up to sell a large policy this month. My commission on the sale of that 1 policy is going to be $3k. We're debating on whether to take that and pay off the last of H's student loan so his are finished before baby comes, or just bank it.
Unfortunately I probably won't have enough expenses in taxes to offset this large check, so we will have to put some aside to plan for that.
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day? Invisibility. Like @hoffse I would worry about what people thought of me.
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
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1. How MM was your weekend? Not bad. $5 enterance fee for a state park and $80 to fill up the truck with gas.
2. Any progress towards goals? Not really. We've been spending money left and right lately and we need to get back on track. DH keeps buying toys for our 2 nieces and nephew which is nice but it's becoming ridiculous. We're all going to Florida for a family vacation with his side of the family in a few months and DH is convinced that the kids need all this stuff in order to have a good time (each kid needs a pool noodle, an inner tube, snorkel gear, the list goes on and on). I'm torn between thinking it's the sweetest thing ever and worrying about how much stuff he's going to end up buying when we eventually start having our own kids, lol. But his heart is in the right place at least.
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day? I'd go for invisibility. I'd like to be able to sneak into places and have that "fly on a wall"experience.
1. How MM was your weekend? Bad. A $250 dollar vet bill, $75 on groceries and $27 in gas.
2. Any progress towards goals? None. Vet bill threw us off big time.
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day? Invisible.
Love: March 2010 Marriage: July 2013 Debt Free: October 2014 TTC: May 2015
1. How MM was your weekend? no idea. not even really keeping track right now which sucks. We were home Saturday for LO's birthday party, but Sunday we were gone all day because of showings. That has made it impossible to keep up our spreadsheet budget, so I"m really glad we use cash for almost everything. We didn't spend much other than eating out and the party, but all this has been budgetted.
2. Any progress towards goals? Nope. I think we are signing a contract to sell our house tonight though. Still an FHA loan- we didn't get any conventional offers, but way more favorable terms for us so if something does need to be fixed we feel that we can afford it from what we are going to be getting.
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day? Able to read people's minds for sure- It would be so cool to know what my LO was thinking while he plays or does whatever during the day.
2) Staying on budget right now so we should be able to put the usual amount into our various savings. On track despite our dog's vet bills. She may have an autoimmune disease so we had to have a skin biopsy done last week. Should know early this week and figure out how much extra per month this is going to cost us.
1. How MM was your weekend? Not too bad. We stayed under our $50 entertainment budget with Friday night dinner at Goodcents and then Sunday lunch at Sweet Tomatoes. I also made an awesome discovery with Clothes Mentor - a consignment store. Bought two pairs of shorts and three tops for my upcoming vacation (plus a pair of dress shoes for work) for less than $75. Also, saved several hundred dollars on hair-care products for the YEAR with Beauty Brand's $12.99 liter sale (you should see our bathroom closet!!). 75%+ off is the only time I'll splurge on salon brand products!!
2. Any progress towards goals? Not really, this is made mostly for us at the end of the month...
3. Would you rather be invisible or be able to read people's minds for 1 day? I think both options could turn out badly... but I would opt for the ability to teleport!