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Monday Accountability
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress towards your goals?
3. Dessert or apps?
2. Any progress towards your goals?
3. Dessert or apps?
Re: Monday Accountability
2. Will make a big car payment tomorrow. Redid budget to make it more realistic.
3. I'm an appetizer girl! Dessert I can take or leave.
1. $16 for 2 car-washes. We needed it badly! $20 Gas
2. $578 to house account. $276 tax refund- will go to house account as well
3. I hardly ever eat apps, but they are my favorite even though I love dessert as well.
2. Any progress towards your goals?
Tax return!! more than expected, mainly due to my tuition from the first half of last year and increased giving to the charatable organizations we support. My promotion, raise, and back pay to January 1 finally got official approval...counting down to April 1st!
1. Good. We used some of our tax return to get husband a new set of tires and wheels. We were under budget on groceries by $80 on Friday. We budgeted and took cash out for Saturday meeting up with friends and a concert and didn't spend as much as we planned. We were able to use some of it for gas on the way home. We will probably use the rest for husband's gas. We didn't do anything Sunday so no money spent!
2. My husband got a bigger bonus than we were expecting him to get, so we were able to put that in our savings account. We had $300 left over from tax returns after getting the tires, put that along with an extra $100 in savings account.
3. Appetizers!
We're also going to start TTC in May and I have over $700 left in my FSA account, so I spent close to $250 on ovulation and pregnancy tests, prenatal vitamins, and a really nice thermometer (not for BBT) but figured if for some reason we don't have a baby, we'll still need it eventually. Hopefully we'll be able to spend the rest on a fancy Madela pump in June or July...
2. Good! Payment on my student loan put it at $4,700. We are so close - and on track to having it paid off mid-May.
3. Definitely appetizers.
Pretty good. Groceries $100, randoms $60, baseball items for DS $40. Dinner out $20.
2. Any progress towards your goals?
No changes.
3. Dessert or apps?
That's a hard one! Depends on the options. One restaurant has amazing deep fried green beans. Another has amazing deep fried oreos. Normally we skip both but we splurge every so often.
It was pretty good. Saturday: Lunch w/a friend and brought home a wrap for H ($13), BJs for some supplies ($40). Sunday: Gas ($25)
2. Any progress towards your goals?
We finished our taxes but we ended up owing a little over $200
3. Dessert or apps?
I'm usually too cheap for either but I guess apps since I'm never hungry enough for dessert afterwards!
1. How MM was your weekend? Not the best but I got some necessities. $40 for date night, $50 at target for various things including my niece's first Easter basket, and $50 for a pair of snow boots. I know it's late in the season for these but I'm so tired of my feet getting soaked when I shovel.
2. Any progress towards your goals? Regular car payment went in and not MM we got the tile backsplace up in our kitchen! After 1 1/2 years our kitchen is almost completely updated!
3. Dessert or apps? That's a tough one.. If the dessert is anything apple cinnamon I'm going dessert, but if they don't have that then I'll go apps.
2. Any progress towards your goals? $500 to general savings, waiting on tax returns to go to vacation savings account.. not much new.
3. Dessert or apps? Both- DH and I like to split 2-3 apps and a dessert (no entree) when we go to certain restaurants.... not feel too full and get something sweet at the end.
Eh. It was okay. Most of it was budgeted, others were spring of the moment purchases.
2. Any progress towards your goals?
Other than paying off what was earmarked, nothing new.
3. Dessert or apps?
2. Any progress towards your goals? My payment to my credit card went in on the weekend. $400 and it is paid off (except for our YMCA membership that is month).
3. Dessert or apps? I usually do apps along with MW. We tend to get the pick 2 that most places where we go have.
2. Any progress towards your goals? yes, no more coffee from starbucks
3. Dessert or apps? APPS
Where did you get Easter clothes for your children? I have boys, I'm in a rut!
2. Any progress towards your goals? Finalized our ideas for our front porch so we can start calling contractors to get some quotes. I also shopped around for hotels for the trip we're going on in June and was able to find some cheaper hotels than what I originally booked, so I shaved about $150 off of our trip expenses so far.
3. Dessert or apps? Dessert all the way! I have a huge sweet tooth.
1. How MM was your weekend? It was ok, all budgeted at least. I got my hair done which is $122, but that is budgeted and my blow money for the month so I am ok with it. $110 on groceries, and H spent $6 to get snacks for a poker night.
2. Any progress toward your goals? Not this week - next week we'll pay down some more debt.
3. Dessert or apps? Oh I could live off of apps. I am getting hungry just thinking about it!
2. Any progress towards your goals? Signed paperwork for life ins, and opened 2 mutual funds. One is to hopefully help with the kids' college, and the other is H's fund. He wanted a riskier one to save for a new truck or something. I'm not quite sure, I'm just happy he's saving.
3. Dessert or apps? Usually apps, but I'm telling you BFing has given me the biggest sweet tooth! I want all the desserts!
Great. Spent $50 on groceries and that was it.
2. Any progress towards your goals?
Put another $1,400 aside to go toward debt.
However, received medical bills for the birth of our daughter and insurance told me a lot of lies about how my coverage works. So far were paying $600 more than they told me we would be responsible for. I see this ending mesy.
3. Dessert or apps?
Both? With wine?
Although, give me some good apps and a bottle of wine, and I'm a happy gal.
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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