Oh, the (mundane) things we do
October 19, 2015
Daily #1GoodMoneyThing had a great run but, as expected, life got hectic so it’s good that I planned to ramp down to more of a weekly thing. Nothing like setting expectations accurately! Still, I got an awful lot done for not trying to do it daily.
Check, check, check:
Updated all my rental property income and expense transactions from the summer.
Submitted FSA claims.
Adapted a TMobile micro sim to match the ATT micro sim size.
Renewed our @MontereyAq membership for another year. Tax deductible and lowers the cost of entry each time we go!
Found an Amex offer for $15 off Chewy.com purchases. Check your card benefits!
Counting pills: Seamus is on a long term medication so I order refills in 6 month increments, 360 pills at a time. His annual bloodwork shows that he needs to be on a lower dose by 25%. 1-800-PetMeds is willing to exchange it for the lower dose but they want to know how many he has left. Damn, I just broke into the new bottle a couple weeks ago. Should have done his bloodwork in August. Better mark the calendar to check it in a year, before his next refill.
Travel budget strategizing: Paying for our upcoming travel in miles and points is a particular point of pride. I’m working furiously on the miles strategy that will put us in great seats on a good summer flight.
Home maintenance: where an ounce of prevention beats paying a plumber and then being traumatized by a stranger’s plumber’s crack.
I scrubbed the guck out of our tub drain, clearing up the build up out to let the water run free again. There was only one strand of hair in the much, incidentally, so I’ve been doing a great job keeping hair from clogging it.
Home maintenance: our dryer doesn’t like to stop when it’s supposed to. It could be the sensor, since the timer zeroes out at the end of the timed cycle, but it just doesn’t stop. I’m assuming the sensor is the thing that tells it to actually stop. More research needed!
Money maintenance: My last Citibank CD with a high interest rate (ha “high”) matured and that money is now being held for our investing portfolio. This drops my minimum account balance. Previously I had the Citibank Account package with a minimum balance of $10K across combined accounts. Since I don’t want to be charged a monthly fee, I’m converting it to the Basic Account package which has a minimum balance of $1500 across all accounts. That only took a solid hour on customer service chat, but better than an hour on the phone, I suppose.
Lots of good thoughts from y’all here
Only one more month of car repair payments. It feels like it’s been FOREVER. #1GoodMoneyThing
I really like the Amex card benefits. They seem to get different offers than the typical ones you see everywhere. When it’s small biz week, they have pretty good offers too (at least they did last year).
They do, I try to check them before I buy most things in case they’ve come up with a good deal
I definitely need to check my card benefits more often! Think they owe me some miles gfrom a promotion, actually. Will have to go follow up on that…
Definitely get your miles! I’ve been quite obsessive over those lately.
I’m not sure I’ve done many money saving things lately. I’ve been more in a spend cycle: bought new rain boots (’cause we’re supposed to get a lot of rain this winter and I had no boots) and a new laptop bag. As for the latter, I realized that the bag I’ve been using is about 15 years old and really tired. So I splurged on a very nice Tom Bihn bag that should last me at least that long. 🙂
I like to think of this more as a money wisdom tag than just saving. Obviously saving is good but buying high quality that will last is money-wise indeed!