October 11, 2009
444 Express’s post on How the Poor Stay Poor made me laugh because a) my dad’s smoking addiction drives me up the wall — I’m sure that he’s going to get sick on me next, and financially it’s terrible, and b) I was inordinately proud of my grocery basket contents today.
For under $15, I came home with:
(2) 10-ct boxes of instant oatmeal
(1) 6-ct package of whole wheat English muffins
(1) loaf of 100% whole wheat bread
(1) Jonathan apple
(4) Bartlett pears
(1) 12-ct package of string cheese
I know the comparison of cheap fast foods and expensive wholesome food is made constantly, but I really like that, if you look at it, shop sales, and use coupons, nutritious foods can be had for not too much more than a few fast food meals. For the record, the string cheese was my splurge at $4.99 for a package of Precious brand cheese + a peelie coupon for $1 off. I miss peelies!
Oh, and there is a meal combination in that list because I’ve been buying two cans of tuna fish every time they were on sale for the past year. We now have a stockpile of tuna tucked away in every corner of the kitchen. It’s ’bout time I started eating it! My friend suggested that I dice some apple into the tuna salad, and it tastes delicious!
Now, time to crack the books!
September 9, 2009
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March 4, 2009
These are the flowers my friend should be receiving this afternoon, and I thought I’d share a little of their gorgeous cheer.
January 20, 2009
Only a few people got the day off today – I’m not one of them – so I got to watch the inauguration events via MSNBC’s video link.
Hope all who attended, or stayed home to watch, were warm, hydrated, and as comfortable as could be!
December 26, 2008
Since I missed wishing everyone a Merry Christmas or Happy Hannukah, I’m wishing you all a happy, prosperous, generous new year instead!
I had a wonderful Christmas spending time with best friend’s family. My own family isn’t up to the holidays, generally, so since I missed Thanksgiving with them, the surrogate family got me for Christmas. Absolutely relaxing, and full of hilarity. Glad I went – definitely glad I didn’t have much in the way of presents because I was really just there for the company and it was so much more fun to bop around chatting and clearing up the wrapping paper as they opened gifts.
Today, I knocked out three medical appointments, and came home with some skin creams, and a new eyeglass prescription. Will be reusing my old frames for non-bifocals, this should be a relief because the bifocals make my eyes feel like they’re crossing.
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California budget crisis: Well, crap, you know, I was kidding! I said that I wasn’t going to depend on unemployment if I haven’t lined another job lined up before the ax falls because California wasn’t going to have any money left, but I didn’t expect it to happen by February!
Evidently, corporations aren’t the only ones who are asking employees to take unpaid leave to alleviate budgetary burdens, Governor Schwarzenegger has issued an executive order to all state employees: they must take two unpaid days off per month.
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Checks are in the bank, sans a bonus check -frown- so the accounts are in pretty good shape and almost ready for a snapshot inspection.
December 23, 2008
The month and the quarter is just about over, and it’s only just occurred to me that I haven’t divvied up the last check of the year.
Just goes to show how busy it’s been; deciding where to allocate incoming funds is one of my favorite financial exercises.
It was a little harder this time because it’s been so long since my last go at it, but let’s take a look. I’ve finally got a handle on properly supplying my expense account, so the proper amount for that is taken out first. That’s about 47% of the check.
To even things up, I’m putting 13% in the insurance account which is transforming from the auto insurance account to an everything insurance account. I’m going to look into buying my own life insurance, so I’ll need some money for premiums. Might also need renter’s insurance. *grimace* Yes, I haven’t gotten that yet.
20% goes to savings, and that leaves me with 20% to go. I was going to refill the travel fund, and plump up the neglected moving fund, but auto maintenance is running on empty. Should I divide evenly between the three, or pick two and make it more substantial for the lucky two?
Hm, I know I have registration coming up again, soon, so it should probably be 9/9/2%: AM/Moving/Travel.
Way more complicated than it needs to be, I know. 😛 I just don’t like any account to be empty!
November 14, 2008
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