Paying for Peace of Mind

Do you remember a while back when I told you that you’d be seeing my debt with my parents go up due to my dad “selling” me a trimmer? Well I’ve updated my debt totals and luckily that didn’t make it go up much. In fact, it only went up a net of $25 – the trimmer cost me $75 and then I made a payment of $50.
Unfortunately, you are going to be seeing my debt to my parents go up again. But first, a little good news.
I held my garage sale over the weekend on both Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday morning and I’m not going to go into the details of the sale on this post (I’ll do a separate one on it later), but I will tell you that I personally came out of the sale with a “profit” of about $220, which I had planned on putting toward my EF and CC#4.
Well, even “the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray” and mine sure did!

Find out why my plans went "astray" at my new site!

Office Declutter: Before and Better

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Budget Check 5/16/2014

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Wow! We are already halfway through May and that means that 2014 is nearly half over. Yikes! I feel like I haven't made any progress yet... Here is this week's budget check:

Category	May (w/leftovers)	Spent	Remaining
Charity	$15.00	$15.00	-
EF	$20.00	$20.00+	-
Mortgage	$852.28	$852.28	-
House Repairs	$81.77	-	$81.77
City Bill	$110.00	-	$110.00
Gas	$51.12	$51.12	-
Cable	$94.49	$16.61	$77.88
Internet	$51.87	$51.87	-
Phone	$102.20	$102.12	$0.08
Food	$110.00	$49.82	$60.18
Car Fuel	$75.00	$50.00	$25.00
Car Repairs	$60.00	$45.00	$15.00
Car Insurance	$93.44	$93.44	-
Clothes and Hair	$45.67	$32.83	$12.84
Pets	$42.41	$41.00	$1.41
Household	$25.00	$9.53	$15.47
Personal	$20.00	$6.00	$14.00
Crossfit	$80.00	$80.00	-
Cleaning	$108.00	$36.00	$72.00
Debt	$596.91	$478.84	$118.07
TOTAL	$2,635.16	$2,021.46	$613.70

I spent almost $40 of my $110 for groceries this month in the first week, but the next weekend, I spent only about $10 for milk and fruit, so I should be back on track for the month. Plus, the $40 that first weekend helped me get stocked up on a few things, like meat and pantry essentials that I should be good on for a while now.

I don't think there are any surprises in my budget check this week. Let me know if you have any questions.

Also, be sure to check out my new guest post at The Frugal Farmer!

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Thing Thursday 5/15/2014

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It's Thing Thursday, the day of the week where I post about one of the things I've purged and why.

 

This week's thing is a teal blouse from one of my favorite stores. The clothes from this store usually fit me perfectly and are work-appropriate, which is a plus :) But this shirt was NOT flattering when I put it on. I kept thinking when I lost a little weight it would fit better. Well, I've lost some weight and it still looks horrible, so I'm getting rid of it. Enough said, this is gone!

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Just a Quick Note: Blog Migration

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I'm not sure if there will be downtime or how long this process will last. Thank you for your patience at this time!

No Showers, But Frugal Flowers

Where I live we've been in a drought pretty much constantly for the past two or three years, which is really hard our my community as it is ag-based. But these facts didn't stop me from planting some flowers.

 I planted these like a week and half ago or so (don't judge, I kept forgetting to take pictures!) and don't worry readers, I didn't have to pay for these flowers out of pocket, making them a very frugal "purchase".



For Administrative Professional's Day (aka Secretary Day) my office gave me a gift certificate to a local greenhouse where I got all of these pretty flowers. Imagine my surprise when I got to the checkout counter and I was under my certificate by $1.75 and they gave me cash back!
 

Now that's what I'm talking about :)

Did you plant any flowers or a garden this year?

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