Gas is Expensive!: With a full quarter of the year gone, it’s time for a quick budget review. The area where I seem most off so far this year is on car expenses. I budgeted $190/month, to include paying for insurance and setting money aside for repairs. Right now, I look at this and think “where did I come up with my numbers?” Insurance itself is over $100/month, even though we pay every 6 months. Thatread more…
Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $113.00 CostCo House Wednesday $7.00 Cafeteria Allowance Friday $47.00 Safeway Groceries $35.00 Outback Eating Out Sunday $27.00 Starbucks Allowance + $75.00 Gas Car If felt like we spent more this week than we actually did. Monday, we had our first home study interview. That went well, I think. I also discovered on Monday that I had apparently overheated our paper shredder and broken it. So Tuesday, off I went to CostCoread more…
As regular readers know, my mother-in-law passed away recently. While C and I are both doing fine, there are a million little things we need to take care of right now. The time has to come from somewhere, and in my case, that means no time to write quality posts for my readers here. Thankfully, I have some amazing blogger friends who instantly stepped up when I asked for help. So for the next week orread more…
I am very excited to be participating in Women’s Money Week 2012. I am breaking from my usual posting schedule to post everyday this week in support of this project. Today’s post is about Budgeting. Click here for more posts on this topic. There is a part of me today that just wants to cheat and point you to my earlier posts A Budget is NOT the First Thing You Need, A Budget is Not the Secondread more…
I am very excited to be participating in Women’s Money Week 2012. I am breaking from my usual posting schedule to post everyday this week in support of this project. Today’s post is about Saving and Investing. Click here for more posts on this topic. In high school government class, we had to pick some stocks and follow them for a semester in order to see (kind of) how the stock market worked. I had toread more…
I am very excited to be participating in Women’s Money Week 2012. I hope to have a new post for you every day this week. (Ambitious of me, I know.) Today’s post is about Entrepreneurship and Making Money. Click here for more posts on this topic. (Sorry this first post is late. With everything else going on in my life, I kind of forgot that this was Women’s Money Week. Posts for the rest ofread more…
Things are a little crazy this week, and I pretty much forgot I needed to write a post. I’m pretty certain I was planning one on why you sometimes need to spend money on yourself, even if it seems like you shouldn’t. I guess that post will come next week. Yesterday we submitted a rather important application, with a $300 application fee. We’ve gotten the email that they’ve received the application and will let usread more…
Today I’m ranting. I try not to rant here too much. My friends and family get enough of that, but sometimes, I need to say it to a wider public. Stupid Regulations Rant one is againstKingCounty, where I live. They have laws/regulations in place that restrict who can offer cable TV in the different areas of the county. Where I live, the only authorized cable provider is Comcast. (These regulations were passed in order toread more…
There are a lot of people out there who are anti-the current unemployment system. They were especially against the recent constant extending of unemployment benefits. I can understand the reasons why, however, I believe that there are times when the government needs to participate in deficit spending, and this was one of the cases. (Would I have preferred it if the government had been smart enough to save for a rainy day when times were good?read more…
