Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $40.39 PetsMart Pets $7.94 work cafeteria Allowance Wednesday ~$160 Vet Pets $17.81 Safeway Groceries $28.02 Outback Eating Out Friday $30.31 Safeway Allowance Saturday $47.50 Gas Car As expected, not a whole lot of spending this week- just over $330, with almost half of that coming from the vets. On Wednesday, we got Junebug’s stitches out and our vet, who is flummoxed by the fact that she’s not better yet recommendedread more…
I hope everyone out there is having a wonderful Thanksgiving. I myself know that I am blessed and have many, many things to be thankful for, including all of the readers of this blog and my fellow Yaezie members. But along with the standard wonderful husband, great friends, two wriggly doggies, food on the table and a roof over our heads, I wanted to take a moment to be thankful for blessings in disguise. Iread more…
Back in August, I wrote a guest post for Daily Money $hot about Making Choices. In it, I talked about some of the things I choose to spend money on, even if I could be saving money by changing. In fact, one of those things has changed- we no longer have high priced cable. We found that we can get by with the most basic package and are saving ourselves $100/month. There are other choices weread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $50.05 Gas Car Wednesday $111.32 Safeway Groceries $91.08 CostCo Groceries $37.10 Target Allowance Friday $15.00 Safeway Chinese Eating Out Saturday $113.84 Home Depot House $33.41 Tukwila Trading Groceries $17.63 Amazon House Sunday ~$3.50 McDonalds Allowance ~$2.50 Starbucks Allowance $50.33 Target Allowance Spending this week ran just under $520 On Wednesday night, C said to me, “We’re going to destroy your blogging reputation.” I explained that no, it was the weekread more…
I rarely work from home. This is not because I can’t- it’s pretty standard in our office that salaried employees work from home one day a week, but because I choose not to. As the office manager (okay, my title is a bit more complicated than that, but essentially, I’m the office manager) I feel that it’s best if I am in the office. The managers and directors I work with often like to swing byread more…
I’ve written before about Managing Someone Else’s Money, namely, my mother-in-law’s. Her financial story is a key component to our financial story. She moved in with us in late 2008 because she could no longer afford to pay her bills, her late fees and overdraft charges, and still eat. Without the late fees and overdraft charges, she had enough money for her bills, but she was no longer capable of handling her money. We took over.read more…
I always mean to do a Round-Up on a Saturday, but then the weekend comes and I’m either too busy running around or too busy relaxing to want to do a link intensive post. It’s a failing of mine, I admit. But today I’m stuck in front of a computer with not a whole lot going on, so Round-Up, here we come. Convenient Couponing (and other ways to save time and money) Beating Broke kicks usread more…
Day Amount Place Category Friday $725.69 Vet Pets Saturday $18.50 PetsMart Pets $5.34 Safeway Groceries ~$8.00 Chocolati Allowance Sunday ~$50.00 Gas Car A lot depends on how you do the math this week. We spent over $800, but the majority of that was for a biopsy for the Junebug. She’s had an infection for over a month, and the antibiotics do not seem to be working (at least not as well as they should), soread more…
I haven’t written about Occupy Wall Street here, and honestly this post isn’t actually about Occupy Wall Street, but it is about one of the issues they are trying to talk about, and I want to give them credit. On some level, the Occupy movement has already been a great success because it’s changed the conversations we’re having. This is also inspired by a post by Derek over at Buck$ome Boomer. This is not meantread more…
2011 Budget 2011 Actual 2012 Budget Student Loans $ 685.00 $ 1,087.00 $ 685.00 School $ 850.00 $ 781.00 $ 850.00 Bills $ 2,135.00 $ 2,183.00 $ 2,190.00 Car $ 190.00 $ 638.00 $ 350.00 Groceries $ 450.00 $ 401.00 $ 350.00 Medical $ – $ 25.00 $ 25.00 Eating Out $ 150.00 $ 159.00 $ 150.00 Allowance $ 200.00 $ 250.00 $ 200.00 Pets $ – $ 181.00 $ 150.00 House $ – $ read more…
