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Monday Accountability
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress towards goals?
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans?
Re: Monday Accountability
1. $23 Gas, $45 Home Depot, $74 Groceries and I think that's it?
2. $240 to vacation account
3. H is getting time and a half working 12 hrs on TG and I will be spending the day with my family and relatives
2. Our first paint project is done!! We put $500 back in the house account and $250 in savings. We have to build our house account back up before starting the next round of painting.
3. H is working, I'm starting the day with a class at the gym, then going out for an early dinner with my aunt and my two uncles.
1. How MM was your weekend? $180 on groceries (buying Thanksgiving stuff and food for 2 extra people this week, plus other things); another $80 on beer and wine for hosting; $6 at Lowe's for some spray paint to finish a project; $50 on dinner out and that's all folks! Kind of a spendy weekend.
2. Any progress towards goals? Nada.
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans? We're hosting my ILs this week. They'll arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon and I think they're staying til Sunday. We'll obviously have Thanksgiving dinner at the house (my first time hosting!), and we plan to take them to a massive Christmas lights display in our area. Otherwise we'll probably just hang out at the house. H's family LOVES board games so I imagine we'll be spending most of our time doing that.
$22 oil change, $30 gas, $5.50 on a new blanket/throw with JCP $10 off coupon, $11 on birthday presents at BBB with a bonus free mug for us thanks to the $5 off coupon, $75 on gift cards we will use for dining in the next couple of months.
We left one of the parties with a lot of leftovers so that was a MM and meal planning win!
2. H GOT A PROMOTION AND A RAISE!!! I'm so happy for him. He started this new job 4.5 months ago and has been doing great. He is technically a contractor and employed by the contracting agency (which offers benefits and 401K) but they usually keep contractors in this role long term. His contract is usually renewed in 6 month increments but with his promotion they also told him he is renewed through Dec 31, 2017! The 10% raise will definitely help with our goals and it is a relief knowing he should be employed all of next year (knock on wood since nothing is really ever a sure thing anymore)!
3. We will be in sunny FL Thurs-Tues with H's family. We can't wait to see them and have some time off. It is really low key there so I want to read some books and watch cheesy Christmas movies on Hallmark/Lifetime.
1. How MM was your weekend? Pretty good- groceries ($127), dinner/drinks with DH ($71), parking for Sabres game ($20).. super exciting game against the Pens too.. great date night!
2. Any progress towards goals? Nothing financial. Bathroom is getting there. We decided to try to get Book of Mormon tickets when we're in NYC too. They have tickets through July so I have to keep checking weekly. It'll be fun to hopefully see that as well.
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans? We have Thanksgiving lunch at our house- my parents, my grandma, my aunt, cousin, his girlfriend, DH's parents, and the 4 of us. It works out well. Then for dinner (which we usually don't eat because we're stuffed from lunch), we go over to DH's parents' house to see his aunt and uncle as well. Pretty small- 12 for the day, 8 at night. Friday, the tree comes out!
1. How MM was your weekend?
It was okay. $69 at Home Depot and also checked out their appliance deals. $165 at Costco. $49 at Winn Dixie. I was super excited with Winn Dixie. They had a special on Sat.-Sun. to buy any turkey, regardless of size, for only $6. They also had a sugar-free pumpkin pie! Score!!! For once, I can have more than a tiny sliver of pumpkin pie and without the guilt.
2. Any progress towards goals?
I paid away $2,000 in credit card debt from another credit card that has 0% interest for balance transfers until June 2018. Also paid down my HELOC $2450.
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans?
Enjoying my LOOOONNNGGG weekend! I work a 4 9s, half day Friday schedule. But at my job, Thurs. and Fri. are holidays. So my half day switches to Wed. I'm only working 2 1/2 days this week without taking even one hour of vacation time. Woo hoo!
Other than that, we aren't really doing anything. We don't have family in the area and my H is too busy with our new duplex to go anywhere. We'll spend TG cooking up that $6 turkey, lol. Plus the other fixings we got.
1. How MM was your weekend?
Not very MM, but it was all planned. $18 at the movie theater, $41 at BWW (reimbursed for MS), $12 for random house stuff at Dollar General, $5 at the car wash, $60 on gas for both cars, $60 at Menards for a few honey do projects H completed this weekend.
2. Any progress towards goals?
We'll dump into our Hawaii savings at the end of the month, but so far we're on track to fill it and be done with our savings!!! This included $1,500 in spending money, which we know we won't use unless we book a couple pricier excursions.
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans?
Lunch at the IL's, then we host supper at our house. I'm excited since I'm trying some different recipes.
Then we leave Friday morning for the Wisconsin Dells. We're staying at the Wilderness with an indoor waterpark and will be there till Sunday. Our friends decided that instead of doing Friendsgiving this year, we'd all get away with the kids. We can't wait! It's going to be hectic chasing the kids around, but we're excited to see our friends and to get away as a family.
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1. How MM was your weekend? Slightly spendy, but mostly anticipated. The only unanticipated cost was $223 for replacing the window in my car. Otherwise, $58 on groceries for Thanksgiving/some xmas cookies, $53 on clothes at Target (BOGO 50% off sweaters, and 20% off jeans on Cartwheel), $15 on food for a potluck, $20 on a fundraiser order, $20 to church.
2. Any progress towards goals? Well, replacing my car window was a goal lol, as well as finding a new pair of jeans. Otherwise, no. Just plugging along.
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans? We're hosting my in-laws and this will be our first hosted Thanksgiving. I'm excited, but TBH I'm more excited for Gilmore Girls on Friday.
2) No progress this week, though my piano playing has really picked up. I managed to practice for several hours this weekend.
3) We are heading to Amsterdam on Wednesday and will be gone the rest of the week! So excited
2 - I got another violin student last week to add to my studio
3 - Thursday we spend with my mom and dad. Saturday we spend with DH's mom and her husband and his kids. This weekend we want to put up the xmas lights on the outside of the house. I want to score on some clothes for myself on black friday.
2. Moved $100 to savings.
3. Well, mom arrived Saturday, she'll be here til a week from Tuesday. Brother arrives today, leaves Friday, Stepdad arrives Wednesday, leaves Sunday. On the day of we have 8 coming, mostly Stepdad's family. Friday, I hope to hit up a few stores in the afternoon for some sales, need a few more pairs of casual pants/jeans for work. The rest of the day Friday will be resting and driving my mom and stepdad around to look at neighborhoods/areas since they're moving here next Summer. Stepdad's mom is having people to her house Friday night, not sure if I'm going to go to that. More of the same Saturday, and then H and I have hockey tickets for Saturday night. Sunday, resting and putting up my Christmas tree. I'm already exhausted thinking about it.
2. Standard deposits to medical, home, and car savings. Still doing well with being credit card free.
3. We are hosting for the first time! This is the first TG ever that I've been so excited about
That is brilliant to go to those parks on TG!! They should be fairly empty (hopefully).
When I lived in CA, my b/f and two of our friends all went to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Superbowl Sunday. The place was empty. It was awesome! But we were all football fans, so we taped it and were careful not to listen to the radio on the way home. We then all watched it that night together, lol.
And yes, I mean "tape", a VCR. It was going to be a long time before DVRs came into existence, lol.
1. Not the best. Friday - $15 at Target. Saturday - $25 for breakfast out, $25 at Target (I go there too often), $8 for pizza. Sunday - $57 on tastefully simple order, $15 tip at the massage place and my first $55 payment came out for a monthly massage membership (Definitely not MM).
2. Not a pay week, so no. Trying to control spending. This month has been hard with prepping for Christmas and SO MANY birthdays.
3. We're going to my Dad's for TG brunch, then my grandmom's for TG dinner. Friday I'll go shopping with my sister, cousin, and friend. Saturday we'll plan to have some of our friends/family over for a small get together. H really wanted TG leftovers so I'm just going to make a small turkey with all the fixings. I also plan to make a Good Will run this weekend and purge the house in prep for Christmas gifts.
2. Just plugging along... Need to set a holiday budget before my husband goes on a crazy spending spree though (some days I swear he only married me so that he could celebrate Christmas the man loves it so much hahaha)
3. Going to dinner at DH's cousin's house. My parents come too since we're a small family and it's the only holiday that overlaps (I'm Catholic and DH is Jewish) so we celebrate it all together. I'm super baby paranoid but my first ultrasound is tomorrow and I told DH that as long as we see/hear the heartbeat then we can make the announcement on Thursday. It's super early (6 weeks), but everyone there already knows we did IVF so making them wait much longer would be mean.
I'm so sorry to hear about your bearded dragon! It's amazing how well dogs pick up on our social cues. I'm glad he is being a comfort.
I hope everything goes well at the ultrasound tomorrow! I can only imagine how crazy excited your all's family will be.
My friend went from an A cup to a D cup within the first 6 months of her first pregnancy. I know it was astounding for her. I couldn't imagine. I'm on the bustier side anyway, but it didn't happen in 6 months, lol.
That's interesting! Mine grew fast and furiously between the ages of 12-15 and then completely stopped at a C. Thank goodness!!! I was starting to worry I was going to be the next Dolly Parton.
I'm only 5'0" tall, though, so they look bigger than they are. Especially in my younger, skinnier days.
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress towards goals?
3. What are your Thanksgiving plans?