Hey everyone! It’s Monday again… Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
We didn’t do too much. Went to the JRDF walk on Saturday morning and then Oktoberfest later that night. Tons of people at the festival and it was a lot of fun. It was also a pretty cheap weekend.
As some of you know who read my Twitter over the weekend, a lot happened with my mom. A lot of you have emailed and text me and I promise I’ll get back to all of you, just tired from it all still. I also don’t want to get too into it on my blog, but she’s still continuing her old ways and wants me to give her money even though she’s stolen tons from me. Old news…
Anyways, enough with the sad stuff. I’ll be announcing the winner of my giveaway soon! So check this post again in a couple of hours and maybe your name will be right here 🙂 Katie is the winner of the giveaway! I have emailed you.
Old picture from Kauai, I like to have a picture in every post 🙂
Spending: Not a ton of shopping this past week. Almost caved in and made a pretty big purchase on something due to all of the extra money that we brought in this week, but decided not to.
We need to stop shopping just because we’re bored or if we think we have extra money, it needs to go towards extra debt payments!
Extra Monthly Income (this is on top of my salary from my job): Extra income was great this past week. Between staff writing and online income, I made around $900 (after referral and Paypal fees, and everything else) last week.
The boy also received an unexpected check from his old job. Still not sure why he got it, but it said adjusted pay with no hours worked, so I’m assuming they messed up on checks from when he worked there. He also made $200 over what he thought he was going to make at his new job due to us miscalculating his commission, so in total we brought it over $1,400 last week alone for EXTRA income. We are VERY happy of course.
Food: As I said yesterday, we’ve been doing ok, but not the greatest. We talked last night and made a goal to eat in everyday for the next week. Hopefully we can do so! We have a great meal plan ready.
Being healthy: Doing much better. I have a goal to lose 1 pound this week, as I’ve noticed that I’ve added a little extra weight this month. I’m totally blaming it on all of the extra stress 🙂
Melissa says
Score!!! 🙂
[email protected] Adult Money says
It's always a good thing when you are doing well in the income department. $900 in one week is pretty dang good! My current goal is to make $1k extra income…monthly! I like reading your weekly/monthly updates because they motivate me to keep at it.
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MakingSenseofCents says
Thanks! and yes, keep at it!
gregjohnson975182420 says
Looks like you are doing well! Maing an extra $900 a month is awesome!
MakingSenseofCents says
Thanks!
John S @ Frugal Rules says
That's awesome on the extra $900 last week. I agree with DC in that I'd take that as a month. I hear ya on the being healthy/working out, I have definitely let that go by the wayside lately.
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MakingSenseofCents says
Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it.
CreditDonkey says
You're a good model for reticence to spending or splurging. Even with that extra income this week ($1400 is very good indeed!) you have managed to keep frugal. That is a lot of control, huh! It's encouraging to me and I wish I could be like you. Seems it's pretty easy for me to go shopping when I have earned some extra money.
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MakingSenseofCents says
Thanks! And yes, it's hard to not spend it.
She works retail says
Wow, $900 in one week- that's awesome!!
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SWR says
Wow, $900 in one week is amazing!!
I'm with you on needing to work on being healthier this month. The past few weeks totally derailed my healthy eating/living that I was working on!
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MakingSenseofCents says
I need to be healthier as well. I just can't stop eating! 🙂
Budget & the Beach says
Wow all that extra income is amazing!! I picked up a video job this weekend and although I only worked about 4 hours on it total, I'm getting $700 for it. I would normally feel bad I didn't put in the hours for it, but I've been doing so many low-paying video editing jobs I don't feel bad at all. 🙂
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MakingSenseofCents says
Wow $700 is great!
therandompath says
Sorry you are going through all that stuff with your mom 🙁 I know it's tough.
Oooh, Oktoberfest! Sounds fun! Haven't been in years. We always had a good time.
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MakingSenseofCents says
Yes it stinks. She's finally gone though.
mycanuckbuck says
Whoo – haven't done Oktoberfest in years..so sorry to hear about things with your Mom but yay on the exta income! Spending – not too bad. Extra income- not much, alas. Working out- both days on the weekend – WOO! Tried to tweet this, but it wouldn't work – maybe my browser?
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MakingSenseofCents says
Hmmm I'll check that now.
EDIT: Worked for me? hmm I wonder why it doesn't work for you.
SavvyFinancialLatina says
Great job on the extra income!!!!
I did nothing this weekend! Seriously! Last week was a rough week at work and in life, so I took time off mentally and watched hours and hours of tv in bed.
Have some major catching up to do this week!
MakingSenseofCents says
I need to relax and take time off mentally as well.
DebtsnTaxes says
Our spending has been ok this past month. The working out and extra income was non-existant but that is because I'm still on light duty at work. Sorry to hear about you having problems with your mom again. I know it's tough but you have to stand your ground and not let her take advantage of you anymore. Hope you have a good month and awesome job on the side income.
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MakingSenseofCents says
I do have to stand my ground. It's definitely hard.
Marissa says
Unexpected income is always a bonus! Good job with the online work!
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herlatenightcravings says
My husband and I get lazy and start picking up food instead of eating at home and we could so start saving money even if we just ate out 2-3 times a week. 🙂 Lazy I tell ya!
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Lance @ Money Life and More says
Congrats about all of the extra income and sorry about your mom. Congrats to Katie for winning although I do wish I won! Did it help a lot with sign ups for feeds aand twitter followers?
MakingSenseofCents says
It helped a little, but I didn't notice anything ton.
Angella says
Sorry to here about the drama with your mother, hope you get that sorted out. Congrats on the extra $900, that is awesome!
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MakingSenseofCents says
Thanks! I hope it gets sorted out as well.
Shannon-ReadyForZero says
Wow, that's great that so much extra money came in for you this month! It is so easy for that to burn a hole in your pocket so great job on staying strong and not spending it! (You should read my post last week on my own shopping out of boredom habits – "Confessions of a Former Shopaholic: How I Broke My Spending Habits by Moving to the Big City" – reminds me a lot of what you said about shopping out of boredom.
I hope things continue to go well for you guys (and I hope things improve with your mom)!
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MakingSenseofCents says
I will definitely have to read that! I used to always shop out of boredom. So bad!
HandlingWGrace? says
$1400 extra? Thats great!
MakingSenseofCents says
Yup! I'm super happy.
MakingSenseofCents says
I agree, we are just so lazy and need to eat in more!
kimateyesonthedollar says
That's awesome about the extra income. It's so hard not to spend when you get a huge bonus like that. Glad you stayed strong.
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Canadianbudgetbinder says
Good for you bringing in some extra money, it always helps. The hard part is not spending the money. That could be a good blog post for you. Why we spend money when we're bored and how to Stop. We try not to go into any shops if we don't have to as something always says , "buy me" although we both have each others backs and say "No" or reason the purchase if we have to. Nobody said life was easy, right, baby steps. Good luck with your weightloss goal… you can do it!! Keep your mind focused on the goal. Cheers mate… Mr.CBB 🙂
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frugalportland says
Well that was an inspiring week for you two! That's great — where does your extra money go? Vacation fund?
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