Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $10.00 PetsMart Dogs Friday $15.00 Copay Medical $820.00 Car Service Car $97.00 Gas Car $46.50 Mojitos Eating Out Saturday $15.00 Target Allowance $50.00 CostCo Allowance Sunday $60.00 Faire Allowance $20.00 Fred Meyer Groceries The home inspection went well. We are now in phase 1 of “sit and wait”- which is the finishing up paperwork phase. It feels good. We still do need to get our birth parent booklet printed up, thoughread more…
Day Amount Place Category Thursday $15.00 PT Copay Medical $7.00 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $32.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $50.00 CostCo Groceries Okay, so spending this week is a little disingenuous because I kept cash out from the money my brother paid us this month to cover a lot of little things. We went to the Farmers’ Market on Thursday and spent at around $20. Also, on Thursday morning, I spent around $20 on office snacks,read more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $40.00 Cash Allowance Tuesday $40.00 Urgent Care/RX Medical $11.00 Pizza Groceries Wednesday $45.00 C’s Birthday Eating Out Thursday $15.00 PT Medical Friday $50.00 Gas Car Saturday $123.00 CostCo Groceries $42.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $15.00 Safeway Groceries $50.00 Gas Car Spent every day this week, partly because of my shoulder injury and C’s birthday. We filled both cars up this weekend. Also, Safeway is having a buy 2 get 3 free saleread more…
C is supposed to write a post for me, but he keeps not doing it. Today the reason was a migraine. But I have really no thoughts for a coherent post, so here are some notes on how this week is going, from a (sort of) financial perspective. 1) It is a good thing I have a medical fund. In addition to getting a bill for a $50 copay for my ultrasound assisted biopsy aread more…
Day Amount Place Category Thursday $95.25 Target House/Medical Friday $24.00 Office Depot House $30.00 Consumer Reports House Saturday $35.75 Red Robin Eating Out Sunday $32.25 Safeway Groceries $180.00 CostCo Groceries Again, not a lot of spending this week. We did spend money on filing supplies (yay for an organized filing cabinet) and Consumer Reports so that we could look at cribs. We have to have one in the house for the home inspection. It is annoyingread more…
We try not to be picky about the brand for things where the brand just really doesn’t matter. For example, you don’t need brand name rubbing alcohol or Epsom salts. These things are going to do what they do exactly the same, regardless of the name on the packaging. At the same time, I’ve found that while brand name may not matter, the packaging does- at least for the Epsom salts. We use them in ourread more…
Today’s post is inspired by the awesome 7 Financial Hacks to Avoid from The Free Financial Advisor (also known as Average Joe’s Money Blog) and the beyond generic and boring 29 Ways You Waste Cash article from MSN Money. I am so tired of the same old advice on how to save money. What about those of us who already cut cable and don’t have a morning latte? At the same time, most of us cannotread more…
Hi, my name is erin shanendoah, and I’m a Bejeweled Blitz Addict. What this means for you is that my addiction, combined with an inability to think of real content today, results in the following tidbits of information, and nothing really coherent. Assuming my estimates of what the cars are worth and that our bank’s home value estimator can be trusted, C and I reached 6 figures in net worth last month. As of Julyread more…
I randomly have thoughts about what I should write a post about, but by the time I get a chance to sit and write, the ideas are all gone. I need to start writing them down, to seize the opportunities that present themselves, because they may never come this way again. Which is actually what I want to talk about today. So often, we, especially the “we” that write personal finance blogs are all about theread more…
I know, I know, you are reading a personal finance blog. You probably already know the myriad of reasons you need an emergency fund, you don’t really need me to give you another. And yet, this one experience, besides being an actual emergency, touches on so many of the reasons you need an emergency fund, that I cannot help but share it with you. Last week, my admin woke up one morning with her faceread more…
