Here’s the breakdown of what I spent while I was shopping in Vegas: Clothing $30.00 Chocolates $18.00 *to bring home to the bf Books $24.00 Total $72.00 Not bad. I did spend $25 on some sho...
I’m leaving for Vegas tonight and coming home on Saturday night. It’s a really short trip, but I’m excited to get away for a couple of days. My maid of honor lives in Vegas, so I...
I’ve been working on my budget again. Right now I’m not bringing much income in because I cut my hours for this summer. I’m okay with that though because my expenses aren’t r...
The following posts have inspired me or gotten me excited about life and/or personal finance this week, so they deserve a little link love: ~Debt Free by Thirty asked if you’re prepared. We are...
I got paid today. The first thing I did was make a $160 payment towards my student loan. I’m back in the game, people!
Sounds like My Pretty Pennies and I are in the same boat. Except that I haven’t even gotten married yet. We still have a little over a month until wedded bliss. I think it may be time that I co...
My goal to track spending all year has pretty much gone to the birds the past few weeks. As I get closer to my wedding, I find that I’m handing out money left and right to vendors and buying a ...
1. Stretch 20 minutes every night. - I’ve been feeling a lot of pain in my dance and fitness classes the last couple of months and I know it’s because I’m not properly stretching or...
I was kind of scared to go back and look at my goals for this month. To be honest, I couldn’t even remember what goals I had made! Let’s take a look and see how I did: 1. Use coupons and ...
I just found out that I was awarded a pell grant for $515. This will be applied towards my summer tuition (I’m only taking one course.) I’ll have to pay the balance, which is $286, but th...
So far, I’m loving that I made the decision to go down to a three day work week for this summer. It has made all the difference in the world as far as my sanity goes. Finally the wedding plans ...
Monday April 18th $4. 95 Coffee Tuesday April 19th $1.06 Coffee Wednesday April 20th $4.24 Coffee $4.63 Lunch $20.81 Groceries Thursday April 21st $5.93 Coffee Friday April 22nd $2.12 Coffee $100.23 ...
I’ve had T Mobile for over ten years. I’d become comfortable with the service and my cell phone. However, it was really time that I updated. BF and I started to look around. I didn’...
I made the decision to drop from a five day work week to a three day work week this summer. I’ll be working 3 nines (27 hours a week) rather than my usual 35 hours a week. This will make a smal...
I’ve been a bad blogger. Honestly, I just can’t seem to get things together. I feel so overwhelmed these days. I’ve had so much going on that I haven’t really been able to foc...
I deleted my Mint.com account today. I haven’t even had it six months and I’ve already had so many problems with it that refuse to keep trying. I can’t even believe I was singing it...
I’d like to get back on the goal track this month. So here goes: 1. Use coupons and track my savings. 2. Make some extra income over the $1000 I usually bring in each month. 3. Save $200 for we...
Carelessness- Just tonight my carelessness got me in trouble. I had a gift certificate to get my nails done and a pedicure. The Boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday and I was pretty excited to use...
Bear with me. This will be long. I’m totally overwhelmed and stressed out right now. This summer was supposed to be fun and relaxing, but now it’s shaping up to be one of my busiest. Once...
Sunday, March 20 through Saturday, March 26 I spent a lot more money last week than I needed to. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. You may notice that I paid gym fees twice this month. That...
For a couple months now I’ve been beating myself up over the food category of my budget. I keep thinking that I shouldn’t be spending that much money on food. I read comments on posts lik...
My spending has been out of control this week. I blew threw almost $200 this week on who knows what- food, itunes, a bunch of junk I didn’t really need. I blame spring fever but really, I just ...
I am obsessed with building myself a career that is financially decent enough that I never have to worry about not having what I needed. A little background: My dad was tragically killed in a work re...
I’m feeling so uninspired when it comes to cooking lately. It makes meal plans very hard to come up with. I’m hoping I get out of this slump soon. Here’s what I have planned this we...
It feels rough getting back in to blogging. This past week I’ve spent most of my time just relaxing and doing whatever I want. I haven’t had any structure. The same goes for PF. I’v...
Couple Money is having a crazy awesome giveaway right now. You have to check it out! Also, I’m having a hard time getting back in the swing of things but expect regular posting to start back up...
Well, it’s been a week since I started my no internet challenge. Today is the day that I allow myself to blog about how it’s been going. So I have mixed feelings about my challenge. Part ...
Today I was thinking about all the little things that I never seem to have time to finish. But then I realized something. If I just worked for a few minutes every night on each thing, then little by ...
I’ve had this idea in my head for a couple of months now. The idea is to give up the internet for a period of time. Why would I do this? Because lately I feel as though it has completely consum...
I mentioned that March is going to be a mandatory no spend month due to the fact that I will be one week short of paychecks. Well, last night I was going through my budget to make sure I was still go...
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