The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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Category Archive: Everyday Finances

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Sunday Evening Post #43

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $66.00 Diablo 3 Allowance Wednesday $192.00 Amazon.com House Friday $35.00 outback Eating Out Saturday $15.00 mattress recycle House $30.50 buffalo wild wings Eating Out $54.00 Gas Car Sunday $53.00 Gas Car $63.00 Target House $44.00 Lowes House I actually felt really in control this week. I didn’t spend any money Monday-Thursday. C bought Diablo 3, but that was planned, and he’s the one that placed our Amazon order on Wednesday. Theread more…

Date: 20/05/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Home Improvement, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Shred!

I had meant for today’s blog post to be about short sales, as my mother is currently going through one. But that’s a kind of long and somewhat complicated post, and I just did not have time to write it today. So instead, you are getting this reminder to do regular shredding of your financial documents. Avoid Identity Theft- Shred Your Documents In cleaning and organizing, we are going through all the random paper we haveread more…

Date: 15/05/2012 Author: Category: Everyday Finances, Organization Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #42- I spent the weekend at the beach

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $3.28 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $4.23 Cafeteria Allowance Friday $163.36 CostCo Groceries   $5.90 Post Office MIL   $62.08 Safeway Groceries Saturday $7.98 IGA Groceries Sunday $5.00 Internet Allowance   $61.00 Lowes House Felt much more in control this week. There were two days where we didn’t spend any money at all. Tuesday and Wednesday were small amounts (though one was lunch out for me). We also got everything mailed off toread more…

Date: 14/05/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Home Improvement, Sunday Evening Post, Tracking Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #41 (Monday Morning Edition)

Day Amount Place Category Monday $48.22 Gas Car Tuesday $25.72 Rx Dogfood Pets   $5.46 Jack in the Box Allowance Wednesday $24.69 Red Robin Eating Out Thursday $23.07 Safeway Groceries   $75.97 CostCo Groceries   $193.76 Kinnect Allowance   $16.41 Barnes & Noble Allowance Friday $36.00 Larry- shots Pets   $3,000.00 Loan to brother Misc Saturday $31.80 Fred Meyer House   $7.98 Trader Joes Groceries   $6.00 Key Arena Allowance   $35.00 Thai food Eating Outread more…

Date: 07/05/2012 Author: Tags: Category: Everyday Finances, Free Things, Home Improvement, Pet Finances, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #40

Day Amount Place Category Monday $14.73 Safeway Groceries $26.00 Nails Allowance Wednesday $10.00 Admin Day Allowance $67.00 Admin Day Allowance $16.83 Safeway Groceries Friday $105.00 Legal Fee MIL $112.00 Buca di Beppo Eating Out $7.81 Cafeteria Allowance $59.00 Gas Car Saturday $111.00 CostCo Groceries $28.00 Home Depot House Sunday $13.00 Target Allowance $8.00 PetsMart Pets So while we didn’t spend as much this week as we did last week, it was not a low spending week.read more…

Date: 29/04/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Encore Presentation

Having yesterday off, combined with some unexpected medical news (ambiguous news that will lead to some more tests), capped off by a game night over at some friends’ house, I completely forgot that tonight I was supposed to put up a post. So here’s a link to one of my old (pre-Yakezie) posts, that has been on my mind lately as a friend struggles with figuring out finances in her marriage- You Have to Talk Aboutread more…

Date: 24/04/2012 Author: Category: Everyday Finances Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #38

Day Amount Place Category Monday $23.25 Safeway Groceries $7.00 Cigarettes Allowance Wednesday $125.31 Poppy Eating Out $105.30 Concert Allowance Thursday $11.00 Subway Eating Out Friday $172.10 CostCo Groceries $8.75 Half Price Books School Saturday $14.00 Remedy Tea Allowance $31.00 Gas Car Sunday $67.53 Lowes House $21.78 PetCo Pets Wednesday we hit one of the restaurants for Seattle Restaurant week. The total represents paying for J, as well, and he’ll pay us back. We got called onread more…

Date: 15/04/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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The Dilemma of the Raise

I’m getting a raise: I got the official paperwork today and the extra money will be on the paycheck I get on April 27. Also on that check will be the 1% increase toward my retirement savings. I do this purposely so that I never miss that extra 1%. It comes at the same time as my average 3% raise (this year it’s 3.75%), so I see extra money on my check and extra money goesread more…

Date: 10/04/2012 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Budgets, Everyday Finances Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #37

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $54.00 Gas Car $7.00 Cafeteria Allowance Wednesday $23.00 Doctor Medical $3.00 McDs Allowance Thursday $16.50 Safeway Groceries $2,329.00 Tuition School Friday $7.00 Cafeteria Allowance $70.00 NorWesCon Allowance Saturday $7.50 Safeway Groceries $120.00 Cremation Urn MIL Sunday $3.50 Starbucks Allowance $41.50 Gas Car High spending week because of paying C’s tuition. It still makes me feel rich to be able to cash flow that. I also finally remembered to purchase the cremationread more…

Date: 08/04/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Throw It Out the Window

The Budget: Our monthly eating out budget is $150. We’re currently averaging $132/month. Of course, we’ve already spent over $100 on eating out in April. Okay, that’s not true, we spent that $100 in March, but I’m paying the credit card bill in April and that’s when it gets counted. I’ll admit I’ve been inconsistent, sometimes paying for meals out with the credit card and sometimes with the debit card, so that’s kind of confused things,read more…

Date: 05/04/2012 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Budgets, Everyday Finances Bookmark: Permalink
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