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Spending, Life, Income and Food Updates… 1/30/2012

Last Updated: January 30, 2012 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 15 Comments

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I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I was pretty lazy. My stomach ache came back on Saturday night and I ended up sleeping for around 14 hours. Thankfully it’s gone again.

I didn’t cook a lot this past week because I had the stomach flu. The thought of cooking made me sick. I cooked just a little more then what is above, but that’s the only thing that I took a picture of. I definitely did not follow my meal plan exactly because I was sick, but no food in our fridge went to waste.

Also, don’t think I forgot, but I still plan on updating you all about what happened to me a couple of weeks ago.  I still haven’t heard back from the police, so I don’t really know what’s happening with that.

I also had a question for you all. Is there anything that any of you want me to talk about? Any personal finance topics, fashion, work, career, college, food or anything? Any topic is fine. Something you want more information on so that you can improve yourself? Let me know!

Stuff that I said I was going to do yesterday:

  1. Go to carpet places (doubt this will happen) – Did not happen. I think I’m just going to forget about this until we actually have time.
  2. Lots of homework to do this weekend – Finished this last night.
  3. Buy a bookshelf and build the others – Did not buy a bookshelf, but we did build one of the two that we got for Christmas. I need to start working on my closet
  4. Deposit some checks that I got from secret shopping and surveys – Did this finally.
  5. Put frames up that I bought a super long time ago – Did not do this. I want to rearrange, so I plan on doing this first.
  6. Clean the house ugghhh – Cleaned a tad. Still a lot more to do.

School: Only 13 more weeks until the semester is over.  I’ve definitely been on top of everything school related so far. Classes were pretty brutal last week, since I had the stomach flu.  Nearly all of my professors have mandatory attendance, which really sucks. This is a graduate MBA program, if I have to miss a class, then I should be able to. I am old enough to make my own decisions. So instead, I had to show up and I probably gave everyone the stomach flu.

How’s school going for everyone else? I’m going to sound like a loser for saying this, but I get super excited whenever I start doing homework, just because this will be one of the last times that I will ever have to do this. Whenever I’m in class I just keep thinking that I only have TWO more classes after this semester until I have my MBA.

Extra Monthly Income:  Swagbucks has been going nicely, still thanks to all of my lovely referrers. Thanks guys! I definitely recommend putting a referral link on your blog.

I’ve also been doing more secret shops and this has been nice. Bestmark recently increased their phone call shops (which literally take 1 minute to complete and about 5 minutes on the survey), so now I’m making $5 per shop. And last week I did about one of these a day, so that’s pretty easy money. I just do them during my lunch break. I also had a secret shop at a nice restaurant with the BF on Saturday, and that was nice also. We were going to go out and eat anyways, so it’s nice that it was nearly free! Have you been secret shopping?

Family: I haven’t talked to my sister about moving in since last week. I have been talking to my mom more, but it’s still pretty hard since I have so many built up feelings about everything. I really don’t want to ruin things more with my mom, so I’m trying to fix their problems first, before my sister has to resort to moving in with us.

Budget Cutting:We haven’t cut anything out recently. We’ve pretty much cut everything or lowered everything that we can. Maybe we will find something else soon though!

Shopping: I don’t think I went shopping at all last week. Being busy with work, classes and having the stomach flu definitely restricted me from shopping.

How’s everything going for you? 

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About Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

Michelle is the founder of Making Sense of Cents, a blog about personal finance and traveling. She discusses how her business has evolved in her side income series. She paid off $40,000 in student loans by the age of 24 mainly due to her freelancing side hustles. Click here to learn more about starting a blog!

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  1. Courtney B says

    January 30, 2012 at 3:52 am

    Every time I read your blog you re-inspire me to get my lazy bum into the kitchen and cook up a good meal using ingredients we already have in our home!So sorry you've been sick 🙁 I hope you're feeling better now?

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  2. Live Simply- Live We says

    January 30, 2012 at 4:09 am

    So glad you are feeling so much better! And you are so close to being done with school! So happy for you.

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  3. Sarah @ Simply Sarah says

    January 30, 2012 at 4:21 am

    Yay for almost being done with your MBA program! I am starting graduate school in the fall which I am kind of excited about, kind of dreading.Hope you have a great week and I'm glad you are feeling better!

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  4. Tanner says

    January 30, 2012 at 5:55 am

    I do hate the no-flexibility attendance policies… I mean, really. There WILL be things you need to take off for. They can't expect that nothing will happen in 15 weeks, I mean, come on. Ugh.And sorry to hear about the family portion of things. It sucks being stuck in the middle of two people, and I hope they can solve their differences without dragging you to either of their sides.

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  5. Mackenzie says

    January 30, 2012 at 6:00 am

    That's awesome that you are almost done w/your MBA! Congrats 🙂 Glad to hear you are feeling better.

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  6. Kimberley says

    January 30, 2012 at 6:16 am

    Only two more classes, that is awesome!

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  7. shoppingtosaving says

    January 30, 2012 at 6:19 am

    Your interview is up on my blog! So excited and happy you agreed to do it 🙂 Thanks again!I would love to read more about your clothes and closet 🙂 We shop at the same places!

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  8. Neely says

    January 30, 2012 at 6:35 am

    I would love to do secret shopping! How do I find out about it?

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  9. BHM says

    January 30, 2012 at 7:01 am

    I just started personal finance blogging and have been given a warm welcome so my week is going great! That plate looks yummy.

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  10. femmefrugality says

    January 30, 2012 at 7:33 am

    Ew the flu sucks. I'm loving your countdown, though. We're on the same schedule and it's encouraging.

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  11. Peace Love Applesauc says

    January 30, 2012 at 9:10 am

    sick sick sicky sickness. that's what i've been up too. ready for the warmer weather to come and stay put!

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  12. Amanda says

    January 30, 2012 at 9:57 am

    I hope you're feeling 100% soon! Liked reading all your updates.

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  13. Serendipity says

    January 30, 2012 at 10:32 am

    Hope your feeling better and things with the family smooth out soon friend!

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  14. Newlyweds on a Budge says

    January 30, 2012 at 10:57 am

    i had one secret shop this saturday, and another one on thursday : )

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  15. Lekker Leven Met Min says

    January 30, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    I think you're doing great! I've just decided that my focus for February will be 'money', and I've reviewed January, which has gone very well in terms of my 52 goals, fortunately. I've read 5 books, saved a lot of money, put 2,5k towards our mortgage and kept the house clean and made it a little more organised. I'm pleased with 2012 so far 🙂

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