Happy Monday everyone. The weekend went by quickly and summer is flying by.

Went out to eat everyday this weekend (yes I know, bad), had a dentist appointment on Saturday morning, cleaned around the house and a bunch of other stuff. It’s still way too hot to do anything outside. These 105 degree days (which have been everyday for over a month) are getting very annoying.

No pictures this week so here’s a picture from our Kauai trip

P.S. Check out my blog sale and my blog post titled “How I Make Money Blogging.” Also check out my post on My Multiple Incomes.

Hey everyone! Hope the weekend was great for you. Lots of stuff happened in the past week (all for pretty much the better).

Those that follow me on Twitter already know, but I passed my work test! I found out last week. I’m super happy. This means that I’m for sure going to DC in August. Who wants to meet up? 🙂

We are still extremely happy that we kicked out our roommate. Even though he doesn’t live with us, he is still giving us a huge headache. Think about the biggest idiot you’ve ever met, and then multiply that by 1,000 and then you have our old roommate. It’s really just his stupidity that is getting to me. Yet he thinks he’s a genius, don’t you love people like that?

We also did buy a new Jeep on Saturday. I’ll be making a post on that soon. We are super happy with our purchase. I know a lot of you said this is a bad idea, but we got a really good deal and Jeeps hold their value very well. We found the same Jeeps (used and new) with many more miles (ours was brand new) that were going for more than what we bought ours at. In the end, we are just very happy and it’s so nice.

My updates:

School: Only 3 more weeks until I’m done and then I’ll have my MBA.  I’m so excited. But I’m not excited about the insane amount of homework and projects that I have to do right now. Time is definitely ticking and I need to get on it. Procrastinating has gotten the best of me. Hopefully my idiot partner that I talked about last week will actually start doing something since me and the other girl did the first 2 projects all by ourselves.

Spending: I bought these heels this past weekend also. Still a part of my Vegas/summer budget. These are pretty much one of the last things that I plan on buying for the summer.  I also returned a lot of the items that I bought last week. Returned 2 dress and 1 of the necklaces. They weren’t needed.

Extra Monthly Income: I haven’t been making too much lately. I did a secret shop at Urban Outfitters and that was pretty much it right there. I was already going to the mall with my sister, so the drive wasn’t a waste. Made money while hanging out with my sister, it was a win-win.

I do have a ton of things to sell as well. I have two huge bags of things to sell to the consignment store, a Versace purse that I’m going to try and sell to Bag, Borrow, Steal (has anyone ever used them?), and if they don’t buy it, then a consignment store near me said they will buy it as well. I’m just trying to get the most money for it. And then I also listed 2 things for sale on eBay. The sales closed yesterday and made $50 from purses that I didn’t even know that I had in my closet!

I would sell it on eBay, but I keep hearing horror stories of sellers who sell their bag and the buyer claims it’s fake and they get their money back. They buyer either tells eBay it’s fake, or they send the seller back a fake which looks extremely similar to the one they bought. Then the seller is out all of their money. This actually happened to me a couple of years ago when I tried selling my Seven for all Mankinds online, I was extremely upset that I lost all my money and didn’t even get my pants back.

Budget Cutting: I haven’t cut anything out lately. I have noticed that everyone I know keeps talking about switching to AT&T U-Verse, however, I just can’t justify the cost in my head right now. Right now we’re paying a little less than $100 for cable, internet and home phone, whereas AT&T U-Verse wants much more. So I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

 

Food: We are doing better but there is definitely still room for improvement. We ate out a couple times last week (still pretty cheap) when we could’ve just ate at home. I’m not even sure if I have gone grocery shopping at all this month except for yesterday. So that is good! Less wasted food and money.

Being healthy: I haven’t been working out a ton, but I have been doing little things when I wake up in the morning and before I go to bed. Could be improved though.

How’s your spending, working out and extra income going?

Happy Friday everyone. This month seems like it’s flying by. I love summer, but I’d rather be done with classes. Anyways, I’m mixing things up today and I’m not going to talk about money as much as I usually do.

As you all know, I have a countdown every Monday for when I’m finally done with my MBA. It’s probably very annoying for all of you, but it’s nice to watch the weeks go down and across cross each week off on my blog.

I’ve been working on my MBA since January of 2011. And worked full-time as an analyst the whole time also, so I haven’t had much free time (pretty much no free time).

I work from 8 am to around 5 pm Monday through Friday (of course since it is a financial job), but after that I will have nothing to do. Whenever I have a break from classes, I am usually extremely bored after work.

I asked some of you on Twitter what you would do, or what you are doing. A lot of you kept telling me that I just need to relax! A lot of you did the same thing as me, and now you’re just living life. This is something that I definitely need to do.

But, I do like to keep busy. I’m crazy!

Part-time job?
Getting a part-time job or something on the side could help in many ways. Now, I wouldn’t work the same amount that I had classes (12 credits a semester, plus homework easily averaged out to 25 hours a week dedicated to my MBA at least). But even if I just found a part-time job for one or two evenings a week could be helpful.

I could pay off that car that we plan on getting this weekend. I could also pay off my student loans faster. And of course that mortgage, etc.

Of course there are other things I plan on doing when I first graduate.

I’ll come home after work and watch TV for hours and hours, work out more, play with my dogs, hang out with friends more than once a week, work on the house and finish decorating everything and so on.

But I do think there will be a point when this will just be too much free time for me.

I’ve talked about this PLENTY of time. But this time I’m serious. What should I do with all this free time? I’ve had another blog in the works for months now, but haven’t really even thought about it in awhile. Only the concept is there so far 🙂

What jobs would even work though? I’ve thought about bartending, retail (maybe, I don’t know if I’d want to get into that again!), and well I don’t know what else. I have friends who are bartenders, so that’s possible, and they make decent money.

Or just enjoy it?
But on the other side, there is a certain point as to where I should (and do) value my free time more than a little extra money. Having a part-time job definitely will not drastically affect my life.

I’m guessing that a part-time job, depending on what and how many hours of course, might bring in around $500, but likely no more. Would $500 be worth my time, or would I be better working on myself (the house, working out, hanging out with friends, etc)?

Happy Monday everyone! Definitely another hot weekend. It’s supposed to be “cooler” this week, but cooler means mid-90s with high humidity still, so it’s still hot.

I didn’t end up taking my business pictures that I talked about on Saturday. I had to reschedule because of the roommate situation that we’ve been having. Long story short (a lot of you know about it from Twitter), but we had to kick him out. It just wasn’t working. He was engaging in lots of illegal activities in our house and also hadn’t paid us rent.

Anyways, enough with that. I’m really hoping that I find out TODAY about my work test that I took a couple weekends ago.

Watched a lot of movies this weekend. Rented 21 Jump Street (HILARIOUS! and who would think that Channing would be the “nerd”?), The Devil Inside Me, The Grey and Safe House.

Did something really stupid on Saturday. Went to a new car dealership (they were closed because it was after hours) and looked at Jeeps. I don’t know why I want a new car so bad (except for the fact that my car now is a “sports car” and does not look professional). Someone stop me from this stupid temptation!

School: Only 4 more weeks until I’m done and then I’ll have my MBA. WOOHOO! So who is sick of my countdown? Hopefully classes 4 nights a week right after work won’t kill me. Last semester of doing this though.

Also, group projects really suck, as you all know. They just never work out well. I have a 3 person group and one guy in my group hasn’t done a single thing yet. But oh well, my professor said if he continues to do nothing, then I can give him his overall group grade (which is worth around 50% of his whole class grade), so if he doesn’t start helping then he will not be getting his MBA. This kid doesn’t work, only has 1 class this semester, and doesn’t have kids, so I don’t know what he does with his time.

Extra Monthly Income: I didn’t make anything from my blog last week. And I only made around $10 from secret shop phone calls. It was a very uneventful extra money week.

Budget Cutting: Nothing cut out of the budget this week. Not really sure what else I could even cut out. This section of my updates just might be disappearing soon.

Yes another dress I bought. Not feeling guilty though!

Spending:  I did go shopping a couple times last week, but it was all budgeted for. Spent a little less than $100 on 3 dresses and 3 necklaces. I plan on returning one of them though because I don’t really like it anymore. This is all for the Vegas vacation with my friends of course. Still looking for a cute pair of summery heels/wedges, but can’t find any that are cute enough.

I can do without though. I really shouldn’t be spending any more money on clothes and shoes. Also, I went through my closet yesterday and listed a couple of items on eBay and have around 2 big bags of clothes to sell. I still plan on going through the rest of my closet and want to sell a lot more.

Food: We are doing pretty well with this still. I am starting to get sick of what I’m making, so I need to find some new recipes. I know I made my Meal Plan yesterday, but I’m craving tacos for tonight. Does anyone have some really good/different taco recipes?!

Being healthy: Ehhh this section has been average for me. Way too hot outside (yes I know I’m complaining yet again about the weather). I should probably run outside because I could lose 1,000 pounds in heat, but that just doesn’t sound pleasant.