Weekly Spending Money Update:
- Auto and transport was expensive because I have a biweekly car payment of $121.00 and then $70.00 in gas. A lot of the gas I used this week was due to a lot of driving for work – I’ll be able to get most back through my mileage expenses.
- I spent about $110.00 on food and dining, shopping (books), and $10 of the money I pulled out the bank.
- The $65.00 in personal care was a massage therapy appointment that I will be able to expense back to my health plan.
- Then I made a purchase for the blog at $21.00.
Weekly Spending Money: Thoughts
This week coming up, we’ll be going into our first week of only grocery shopping three times a month – this will be our off week. I’ll have to plan my meals ahead of time to make up for the lack of easy option food available in the house.
I also get paid this week so I’ll have to watch my weekly spending more because I have an influx of cash coming in. In one of my previous posts, I said I wanted to move all our automated payments into our joint account so both of us can see the money going in and payments going out. I have Monday off so I plan to devote some time to putting in the phone calls to make this happen.
My friend will also be coming over tomorrow to help me get our basement ready for a tenant so we can have an extra source of income. Wish me luck!
Have a happy Monday, Cens’ers!
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Good luck with the grocery shopping experiment. That’s something we should work on improving. We pretty much have one big outing per week, but we always seem to go back one a week for something.
Hey Matt!
Yeah, husband and I have different concepts of this idea. He assured me we’d be eating soup for the next week & I looked and found three or four different dinners in the pantry & fridge. Le sigh. It’s a work in progress!
Lindsey
The extra income from renting your basement will be nice! Good luck! I hope you find an ideal tenant!
Hey Kasey
It sure will be nice to have the extra income. We just have to clean out the basement first…urgh.
Getting extra income would be lovely to help bring in some cash to put down on the mortgage or whatever you need it for. Thanks for your kind words. Our mortgage is still pending as they won’t let us put another $37k down until May 3 then we can break the mortgage and slam the remaining $81K and get it over with once and for all. How much are you hoping to bring in with your basement apartment?
Hi Mr. CBB
We were hoping for about $700 to $800 on the suite downstairs, I have to do a little more research before we commit to a specific number though.
Your mortgage will be done and over with very shortly, by the sounds of it. The banks are pretty funny about how mortgages are repaid, eh? They’re not happy unless they make a certain amount of money back.
Thanks for the comment!
Lindsey