The Dog Ate My Wallet

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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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Sunday Evening Post #33

Day  Amount Place Category Tuesday  $    6.50 Cafeteria Allowance Thursday  $  10.50 McDonalds Eating Out Friday  $  13.50 Subway Eating Out  $  51.00 Gas Car Saturday  $  70.00 Saffron Eating Out Sunday  $  55.00 CostCo Groceries Just over $200 this week. Considering that we got back $230+ from CostCo, returning things we had bought for the MIL, we’re actually at a net positive for the week on this kind of spending. Obviously the big news ofread more…

Date: 11/03/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #28

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $46.12 Gas Car Thursday $42.20 Seafood City Groceries $19.38 Dinner Eating Out $5.92 Petsmart Pets Saturday ~$45.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $19.56 Safeway Groceries $30.61 Mud Bay Pets Finally, down to under $200 spent this week. I’m not certain about how much I spend on Saturday because I seem to have lost the receipt and the debit hasn’t posted online yet, but I’m pretty certain I estimated high. It’s been a nice,read more…

Date: 05/02/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , , , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Lacking Motivation

Exhausted today and just not feeling inspired about anything. I have a post I want to write about how the mortgage world has changed in the last 40 years, and how the rules of the 1970s really can’t apply to today’s mortgages because of the inflation of property values, but it needs a little more research so I know I’m using accurate numbers first. I turned to the blogs I read for inspiration, but while Iread more…

Date: 20/09/2011 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Budgets, Lessons Learned Bookmark: Permalink
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Reaching a Milestone

Sometimes the journey out of debt or just to a better financial picture can be long and tedious. It gets tiring, and you just get sick of it all. In order to counteract this fatigue, I choose financial milestones that I am looking forward to meeting as little points of celebration along the way. This week, we hit a milestone that I have been looking forward to meeting for a LONG time. I graduated in Mayread more…

Date: 15/09/2011 Author: Tags: , , Category: Debt, Uncategorized Bookmark: Permalink
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A Role-Playing Scenario

Back in 2010, when my brother took his job in Australia, hubby and I made a plan to go visit him in March 2012. We figured it would take us that long to save for the plane tickets- flying to Australia is ridiculously expensive. When my brother first hinted that he wasn’t happy in Australia and might be looking to come back stateside before March 2012, we said not to worry. We’d just use the moneyread more…

Date: 25/08/2011 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Budgets Bookmark: Permalink
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Know Your Role

I originally thought of this post in regard to being in a romantic/life partner type of relationship, and some parts of it will still be geared at least a little toward that. But it occurred to me, that regardless of whether or not you share financial responsibility with someone, its important to “know your role”, to understand your relationship to money, regardless of any other relationships out there. Let’s start with me. Like sand through theread more…

Date: 23/08/2011 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Budgets Bookmark: Permalink
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When you Make a Change, Make a Plan

Quick Yakezie Challenge Update: My Alexa ranking is below 1 million. Yay! The guest post I wrote for Daily Money Shot was about making choices, about understanding the trade-offs between what you want, whant you can afford, and what you’re willing to give up. For a very long time, we have had HD cable with an HD DVR. Even when the husband was laid off and we were in our crash budget phase, we kept theread more…

Date: 11/08/2011 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Budgets, Getting Started, Lessons Learned, Tracking Bookmark: Permalink
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Planning for a major "What If"

We have a not so firm plan to adopt a child. It’s been the plan for a while, but adoption is expensive and other things have kept coming up. Right now, the not so firm plan is to wait for the husband to finish school (in one to two years) and then save up the money for adoption fees. There’s a local agency that does a sliding scale fee, so we’re looking at around $14,000 forread more…

Date: 04/08/2011 Author: Tags: , , Category: Budgets, Tracking Bookmark: Permalink
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