Net Worth & Money News: June 2015
July 1, 2015
Change from Jan 2015: 0.55% decrease
On Money
I’m working away at Swagbucks to earn Amazon money for household, Little Bean, and dog things we need. Feel free to join using my referral link if you like!
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Are you a Comcast customer? Were you hit by the West Coast outage on June 1st/2nd? Comcast is offering a $5 credit. They say you have to call but I’m not able to make phone calls during the day so I asked for help online via chat and that worked. My outage disrupted work for 2 days so I received a $10 credit.
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I won Donna’s Swagbucks giveaway! It was an amazing lift during a very difficult week.
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Dammit auto repairs! My car cost nearly $600 in maintenance. A couple thousand a year in maintenance is still loads better than a car payment. For the record, we bought our cars used, with cash, from private owners. We haven’t had any significant problems with them in the last three and five years (respectively) of owning them.
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We continued to save on childcare this month. Yay…?
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I made a mistake booking our car rental for a trip later this summer for just one week. When I went back online to fix it, the site said it was going to be another $1800 for the second week. $1800!! [insert boggled expression here] I am so grateful that it was easy to call Enterprise and have them extend the booking for the same (much saner) rate.
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On Life
It’s a minor miracle that my body has not just up and quit on me. I’ve been taking the brunt of juggling work and childcare because my schedule is more flexible. In turn, PiC flexes his schedule where possible and is primary on the weekends. We aren’t just skating by on a hope and a prayer, of course. PiC is good at reminding me to make appointments for massages AND arranging his schedule to make sure I get them. 2 in the past 6 months isn’t a great record but better than it would be without his reminders. I’m tired always, but I’m not in the depths of despair or in intolerable pain.
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Seamus isn’t jealous, precisely, but he definitely wants to get in on the LB attention action. I’ve caught him trying to crawl onto hir playmat three times now. He just wants some more love and I’m happy to oblige.
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I’m still feeling restless, professionally. Slowly, I’m adding up the imperatives that go into this feeling and what I want to make of it. I’m thinking of thing like income replacement and growth potential and so on.
