Money Matters
jessica490
member
Dear Community,
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.
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
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress towards goals?
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
Re: Monday Accountability
1. How MM was your weekend? Great! our bathroom makeover and redoing the kitchen floor only cost $175 instead of the $250 we had budgeted.
2. Any progress towards goals? Nope! We are back to our (financially) goal free summer.
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be? Deceased father, my mom and brother, and H. He never met my dad, and I would really love for a couple of hours with my family all together.
Love: March 2010 Marriage: July 2013 Debt Free: October 2014 TTC: May 2015
1. $14 Old Navy
2. $500 House fund
3.
a. Grandpa 1- Passed away
b. Grandpa 2- Passed away
c. Vin Diesel- I love that man to pieces
d. My former boss...I miss her to pieces (she moved to another state). She is my idol
1. How MM was your weekend? Pretty good- Target ($37), Trader Joe's ($50). Sunday we went to brunch out of town (with DH, girls, my parents, DH's parents) so we haven't gone grocery shopping yet.
2. Any progress towards goals? Nothing went to savings this week, but DH got a new job (posted on Friday)! This will dramatically change our income over the long term since he'll reach step 16 (highest step based on the current contract) at his new district in 11 years and will be making much more $ than his current district that has 27 steps. Short term, it puts a few extra thousand in our pocket every year but makes DH very happy and he feels like his teaching career has a purpose. So happy for him- he's worked really hard for it.
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be? My grandpa (passed away very unexpectedly in 2008), DH, and the girls (DD#1 was born almost 2 years after he passed away so he never got to meet them).
Not bad, all budgeted for. Groceries - $58, birthday gift - $25, wedding gift, travel (gas) and babysitter (not yet totaled but was estimated within budget). Father's Day gifts for our dads - $50. We delayed celebrating Father's Day for H until this coming weekend because we had a busy weekend.
2. Any progress towards goals?
$800 in savings. We both get paid this week so hopefully more will go in later this week.
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
My maternal grandparents. My grandfather was such an amazing person but passed away when I was 9. I would love to share a meal with them like old times.
2. I signed up for monthly autopay for our homeowners' insurance, freeing up the $400 I had put aside for use towards goals. We put half in the e-fund and half toward summer travel (nothing crazy, just weddings and weekends here and there).
3. H, my deceased grandparents, and his deceased stepbrother.
1. How MM was your weekend?
Great! We visited some friends, so spent $30 on eating out for dinner and ice cream with them. Then $45 on groceries.
2. Any progress towards goals?
Paid all of our bills that are due for the rest of the month, and we still have 3 more paychecks to come in. Woot! So far we're set up to have $2,500 to put toward debt. So exciting!
Also, my brothers' land was officially transferred into my name on Friday. I am now the owner of 90 acres of farmland worth $750,000. :-D
Because of this, we need to do some changing around of our insurance to cover this land and get us covered enough with liability. So some/or most of that $2,500 will be going toward getting our insurance switched over and paid in full for the year (home, farm, umbrella, and auto).
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
My deceased brother, our baby that we lost, and my parents.
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
www.5yearstonever.blogspot.com
1. How MM was your weekend? Not too bad, mostly budgeted. We went to a wedding 2.5 hours away, so there was a little extra cost of gas (we got great gas mileage, so not a huge cost). We packed homemade sub sandwiches to eat when we got into town, which came out of the grocery budget rather than adding more to the eating out "budget." $112 for hotel, an unknown amount for alcohol for cash bar & after party (will figure out exactly how much tonight), $22 for Sunday brunch and $6-7ish for ice cream on the square after our walk along the river.
2. Any progress towards goals? Not last week. This week we'll determine what to put toward our remaining student loans.
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be? I'd love to talk to many people from history, but I'd choose my maternal grandparents and great-grandparents. I'd love to ask a billion questions about their experiences and our family history.
Spendy. $130 for my haircut and color. I haven't gotten a haircut in a year, though. I needed it terribly. $150 for shirts and ties for H's upcoming interviews. We ran into a really good sale, so it made sense to get more than one of each. Dress shirts were $99.50 each or 3 for $99, but you had to buy 3. Seemed silly not to get 3, but then we ended up buying multiple ties, too. H wears a uniform, so we only buy him dress clothes for interviews and funerals, so these should last awhile. $100 on fresh food at the grocery store. We're still working off our pantry and freezer until they're all cleared out.
2. Any progress towards goals?
$600 in our move money account. We're only $10k from our goal! And my student loan was paid in full on Friday!!
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
All 4 of my deceased grandparents. I lost them all by the time I was 25, and only one ever met H. They were friends with each other, so it would be fun to have them all together.
1. Pretty good considering all we did. Spent $50 on groceries, $70 on a boat rental with another couple and $20 on ordering pizza. We went to the state park again for free and used a Groupon for the boat rental. Also bought a Groupon pass at 50% for tickets to the drive-in theater so we can see Jurassic World and Inside Out.
2. No, temporarily stashing some extra cash into our short-term savings. We're going on vacation next week so I'm trying to plan ahead and make sure our vacation savings and budget are realistic. We're going to see my parents and go on a family trip that they're funding so the good part is that we won't have to pay for lodging although we'll be driving 7 hours there, then an additional 4 hours for the family trip, then back from both of those so the miles will add up. I also tend to spend more whenever we visit my parents because the malls and stores out there are so much better than my current town and I go out for drinks/dessert a lot to catch up with old friends that still live there. Not to mention I'm already scheduled for an appointment with my favorite hair stylist back home. I'm going to have to try hard to control my spending.
3. I would share a meal with my maternal grandmother and my H so that he could meet her since she passed years before we met, and my paternal grandfather because I never had the chance to meet him. For the 4th person I would also love to meet H's late maternal grandfather. I've seen so many photos and heard so many stories about his travels around the world.
1. How MM was your weekend?
Great! Spent $95 at Costco for groceries, but that was it.
2. Any progress towards goals?
$2000 to savings, but that will be wiped out (along with the rest of the account!) when I close on my investment properties in (hopefully) 2-3 weeks.
3. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
Like most of you, I would want to use this as an opportunity to connect with a deceased relative. I would choose my father to meet my husband and my BIL, of course my sister and mother would want to be there also.
But for a more fun answer, I'd choose Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, Judge Judy, and Jon Stewart. I would love to pick the brains of the first two...really three...and Jon Stewart would offer humorous insight. I just love Judge Judy, even aside from her tv show.
I saw footage of her before "Judge Judy", when she was still a family court judge in the Bronx. Her personality, mannerisms, and even the phrases she used were exactly the same. I had always wondered if she used a persona for tv, but apparently not! I'd also love to hear her perspective about what it was like to go to law school and become a young lawyer at a time when very few women were in that field.