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Weekend Plans?
What are you up to -
Tonight?
Saturday?
Sunday?
GTKY - If you had $1,500 of unbudgeted fun money, what would you do with it?
Tonight?
Saturday?
Sunday?
GTKY - If you had $1,500 of unbudgeted fun money, what would you do with it?
Re: Weekend Plans?
Tonight- I'm WFH today so I'll be washing guestroom linens in preparation for my ILs to come visit next week. Tonight DH and I need to focus on cleaning up clutter and making sure everything is in its place so we can clean this weekend.
Saturday - Saturday is cleaning day. If I have time, I am going to go to my mom's house and pick up all of her outdoor potted plants so I can keep them watered for her while my family is out of town for Thanksgiving. MM bonus - free fall decorations and flowers!
Sunday - Catch up on our outdoor projects and hopefully complete them finally. We're petsitting my sister's monster lab so he and our dog can chill outside all day while DH and I work on stuff.
GTKY - If you had $1,500 of unbudgeted fun money, what would you do with it? I can't decide if I would contribute to one of our savings goals or just buy something just for fun. There's nothing we seriously NEED at the moment, but I feel like savings wise, we're on track without doing anything extra. I'm seriously thinking about buying a shed so we can move our lawn care stuff out of the garage to make room for DH's woodcraft hobby, but I don't know if we'd do better cost wise to buy our own materials and build it custom or to buy one of the kits from Home Depot or somewhere similar. I'm not sure how we'd get the most bang for our buck.
Saturday - Have a group get together in the evening.
Sunday - no idea.
GTKY - It's funny you ask that. There's currently an extra $1300 sitting in my checking that i'm trying to figure out what to do with.
Tomorrow-Thanksgiving prep! Cleaning, shopping, maybe some pre-cooking.
Sunday-I'm subbing in at church daycare, then more Thanksgiving prep
GTKY-If I had to use it on fun, I'd save it for a trip to Ireland next summer. Flying out of Boston we'd only need a smidge more than that to book. There are always crazy package deals for $800-$900 pp including flights and lodging.
DH recently sold some company stock he was given a few years ago and we're trying to figure out what we'd like to do with it. Normally it's not available for sale and this time for once it was, and the price jumped up past a point where he always said he would sell if it was a certain $ value, so we went for it. He already got to spend his "fun" portion, some antique guns and knives from a co-worker's husband who was a life-long collector. So now it's up to me to figure out what I'd like to do with the rest.
Tonight? I have off this afternoon to get the window on my car replaced, and after I'm going grocery shopping for Thanksgiving/the million potlucks we seem to be going to/Xmas cookies supplies. And laundry in the evening. Fun times, but H is at an event with my dad today so I get the house to myself and I'm kind of excited about that.
Saturday? book club, then family get together, then maybe (hopefully?) some personal clothes shopping (need a concert-ready white top) then going to my grandma's in the evening.
Sunday? Church then potluck.
GTKY - If you had $1,500 of unbudgeted fun money, what would you do with it? Ideally I'd travel with it, but realistically I'd use it on house decor that I've put off because of the price, namely curtains and a headboard for our bedroom. Also on frames for my hallway travel photo project that hasn't come to fruition yet.
Saturday? Heading 1.5 hours away to meet up with a few other nesties for brunch. Then grocery shopping for Thanksgiving. H and I are debating doing a date night and seeing Fantastic Beasts.
I have a mystery shop available for both the movie theatre and Buffalo Wild Wings. So I'm tempted to do those as our "date night" so they can be reimbursed.
Sunday? Church then we're going to put one of the toy cars in storage for the winter.
GTKY - If you had $1,500 of unbudgeted fun money, what would you do with it?
That's a hard one. I would want to use it to buy DD a big girl bedroom set.
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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Tonight? At work today, but will be leaving at 3 to pick up DD#2, then get DD#1 off the bus. DH has p/t conferences so I'm hoping the pizza dough I have rising at home will work for dinner.
Saturday? DD#2 has a birthday party, the plan is to clean, grocery shop, yard work, dinner and Sabres game with DH (girls are staying the night with DH's parents).
Sunday? I get to watch Sunday morning (uninterrupted) and eat breakfast on the couch (uninterrupted)! We'll get the girls after that- laundry, meal prep, football, relax
GTKY - If you had $1,500 of unbudgeted fun money, what would you do with it? I would save it for our NYC trip in August.. use it for dinners and probably 2 more tickets to see Hamilton the following night (have a feeling we'll want to see it again!)
Tomorrow- Early visit to the Dr's office. The off to the Christmas craft show at my old high school with my cousin and our aunt. We'll probably go out to lunch afterwards.
Sunday- Cleaning and putting the house back together from the painter and all of our guests.
GTKY- I have no idea! What a problem to have. We'd probably paint the basement. That's our next paint project and should come in around $1500.
Saturday DH is working in the morning and we are going out at night to celebrate my dads bday
Sunday I would like to winterize the patio - bringing in cushions and that kind of stuff.
I'd put $1500 towards my hardwoods floor fund
Not much going on today or tomorrow. I'm going to try and talk my H into hitting the Harrahs buffet tonight. I have a coupon for two free ones and tonight is Seafood Extravaganza. Which he will hate, but I will love, lol. To be fair, they always have their typical fare that he likes just fine.
Sunday is my birthday and we are going out to lunch at one of our favorite casual dining places. It's actually a mystery shop. I'm so penny pinching, I even make sure going out for my bday is reimbursed, lol. Once we return home, I've decided it will be a "Mimosa Sunday". Champagne and OJ all day long.
I have to be boring with my hypothetical surprise $1500. I'd use it toward my next HELOC payment. But, if I were doing something fun, a long weekend in Chicago. My H has never been and it is a short, cheap flight from NOLA.
Tonight - We're heading to a friends surprise birthday party
Saturday - MIL's birthday so we are going to see Fantastic Beasts and dinner with her
Sunday - I have a massage scheduled, a tastefully simple party, and my mom's birthday dinner.
Busy weekend full of birthday celebrations... There are SO many November birthdays in our family.
I would probably use it to re-do our upstairs bathroom. We just want to re-tile the shower, put tile floors in and convert our vanity to a double vanity so that would be a good chunk to put towards that project.
Tonight: Probably go eat somewhere, and then I have to take H out to the airport to pick up a rental car. He's going to a football game in Laramie tomorrow, and I need my car while he's gone, so he decided to use a free rental coupon he has, instead of taking his gas hog truck.
Saturday: I need to do a mass cleaning of my house. I got the guest room and hall bath done already but the living room needs to be done... including spot cleaning the sofas :-P My mom flies in Saturday night. I also need to finish up my Thanksgiving plan and grocery list.
Sunday: Going to church with my mom (I hope I don't burn up LOL), then we are going up to have lunch with my BFF and her kid, then doing our Thanksgiving shopping.
ETA: Whoops forgot to answer the question!! Well, the responsible side of me says I would just put it in savings as that would put me over my savings goal. But, usually when I receive a larger sum of unexpected money via gift or whatever, I save half and spend half. So in this case, I would save $750, and then spend $750. I would like a handheld Dyson vacuum, and then I would spend the rest on having a house cleaner for a couple months.
Tomorrow - Cleaning and then shopping for our angel tree kid
Sunday - Hitting up some pre-black-friday sales (since this is now a thing) and then packing for our trip next week. Leaving for Amsterdam on Wednesday via Toronto.
Bonus - The next $1500 we receive will go toward spraying our basement bathroom white so that we can finally reinstall the vanity down there. Right now it's an ugly terracotta color, and it's just awful.
Fri - It was a long, bad week at work. I've been slammed lately. I was looking forward to going home and moving on to the weekend. Well when I got home I opened a letter that someone tried to open a credit card in my name. I spent the next few hours working on fraud alert and putting in place credit freezes per @hoffse suggestion in an old thread.
Anyway, when that was done we went to a party (got there a little late). Had a great time drinking wine, eating cheese and hanging out with friends.
Sat - Cleaned up a little around the house, did some shopping and went to a party. It was a nice party with fantastic food. Our friends had the party catered by a restaurant we like in the city. Unfortunately they have a family funeral to attend and will be traveling Sun/Mon so they gave us a lot of the leftovers. I'm hoping to stretch them the next couple of days so we don't have to do much cooking before leaving for a week in FL for Thanksgiving.
Sun - Watch football, work on the budget, coupons, cleaning, gym, etc. Maybe brave the cold to walk to a couple of places to do some shopping.
Yeah we did it Saturday night. It specifically stated that you couldn't use gift cards though.
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
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