March 15th, 2005 at 02:47 pm
I set a goal with the last electric bill that I wanted to use no more than 50 kwh this time. I am at 49.38 Ok so I am coming in close. But I have met the goal!! There are 2 days left in the billing cycle and I will be at 1500 or a little under!
This *could* of been lower, but because of rain I had to run the dryer more than I planned. Now that I started working I figure it is costing me about $25 to dry clothes for the month - I will be making a little over $800 so I have decided to continue to use the dryer. This way I can make sure the laundry get's finished daily and it's done and put away in a couple hours.
I will continue to watch all the other ways to save kwh. We still have not turned the a/c on yet this year!! WOOHOO!! Even though last night I wanted to! It's was 80 in here when I got home from work. But I opened the windows and had the ceiling fans going. Cooled down pretty quick actually. I *know* once we start using the a/c I am looking at adding another 25 to 30 kwh- or close to $60!!!
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March 15th, 2005 at 02:39 pm
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March 10th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
I start my new p/t job today!! I am soooo excited! I need to get the house straightened up, run by the grocery store and laundry before I go to work tonight. Also need to get beef stew in the crockpot for dh to serve for dinner.
Have a great day!
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March 9th, 2005 at 06:27 pm
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March 9th, 2005 at 06:22 pm
Well I spent $28.00 on pictures this morning - gosh I wanted to buy them all!! The pictures were of our youngest dd - she looks like a little angel in them. It's been a long time since I had her pictures taken and all the kids have school pictures on the wall kwim? But I honestly could of gotten all the pics for 185!!! I don't think so - yes they were cute but honestly I don't have that many people to give pics to. I figured if I was gonna have that kind of $$ sitting in the drawers it would be green!
Other than that no money spent.
I start work tomorrow night - working 3 to 8 pm. My mil just volunteered to keep youngest dd during the day if I got a chance to work days - She has NEVER watched our children!! So it was a shock! Anyways I thanked her and told her nights would work out good for us right now.
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March 8th, 2005 at 05:12 pm
Well I am back from shopping - I went to walmart, target, ross and bealls outlet and ended up spending.........................
60.81
I bought $19 worth of groceries at walmart
12.75 for baby clothes for dsis that is due in 3 weeks - I got 4 really cute outfits at ross for this price! Each outfit retails for 9.99 to 24.99 each normally. I never spent that much $ on a newborn's clothes.
$19. on shorts - got 5 pair!!
Then 10 on 2 apple wall decorations for the kitchen - I have redone the kitchen in apples and needed a couple more things for the wall.
NOW to transfer the rest into savings and the medical bill.
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March 8th, 2005 at 01:12 pm
It looks like everyone is over the stomach bug here - wow what a week and a half.
Have a great day!
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March 8th, 2005 at 12:20 am
I donated a truck load of stuff to the thrift store tonight!! I feel better, earlier in the day I still wasn't doing that good - but dh and an older son helped and we got almost everything cleaned - except for the fabric cabinet. BUT I will work on that one tomorrow!!
I actually have empty cabinets and shelves in this house now!! Also got rid of alot of children's clothes. They *really* don't need 20 pairs of pants each now do they? I don't buy alot of it though, people have given it to me and I just hate to say no.
I got rid of lots of tupperware - and paired everything down to 10 - like plates, glasses, cereal bowls stuff like that. When we have company we eat off paper plates and cups anyways, which isn't frugal necessarily BUT it makes life easier.
The house looks soooooo nice and clean - now I feel like I am ready to start my new job this week!
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March 7th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
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March 5th, 2005 at 11:40 pm
UGH!!!! I have had sick kiddos for the last 4 days. They are alllllllll getting it. UGH!!! It's a stomach flu thingie. IT's AWFUL!!!!!!
Anyways because everyone has been sick - we didn't go anywhere so no $$ spent. This is NOT the way I wanted to spend a saturday!!!
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March 4th, 2005 at 03:30 pm
Today will be another no spend day here.
I am still working on menus and meal planning for next week when I start my new job.
Today I will finish the laundry up using the dryer. It's been cold here for us anyways. I also took the timer off the water heater right now as we have had sick kiddos and I want to kill germs.
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March 3rd, 2005 at 02:50 pm
I am setting a goal to save $200 into our EF this month. More would be great, but I will be putting mos of the extra towards the medical bill.
So I am looking for ways to get that $200 in there. I got a rebate check from the new car we just got for 6.65 that went in there yesterday. So the balance is now 1006.65 - Looking for other ways to get the 193.35 creatively.
~On the 28th of March I will save 30.89 (curves membership) as I will be working there so I won't need to pay that any longer.
~look through books and see what I can ebay/half.com
~keeping the utilities lower than the budgeted amount
I'll keep thinking and see what else I come up with. I LOVE LOVE LOVE saving money!!!!!! It is such a GREAT feeling!! Walking away from the edge finally.
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March 3rd, 2005 at 02:43 pm
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March 3rd, 2005 at 02:33 pm
Ugh! I am sooooooo tired!! We have sick kiddos. I was up most of the night with 3 that are sick right now.
In March I have had 2 no spend days- I am aiming for 20 this month.
It's raining out and with all the sickies I am gonna use the dryer today instead of the drying rack - as I want to kill the germs with hot sunlight (which I don't have) or the dryer.
Trying to get the menus and dinners organized for next week, when I start my new job.
Elimintated a couple of *small* charges ($39.90) total monthly yesterday - 2 were for credit monitoring service and one was an isp - that I forgot about. DUH! Anyways that should give a little more wiggle room.
Set most of our bills up with ebilling and now in March will start paying everything online. Not saving much - but some.
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March 2nd, 2005 at 02:50 am
I had 24 no spend days in January - goal was 20
I had 19 no spend days in February - goal was 18
In March I am aiming for 20 days -
I am sure I can do this many, and possibly more.
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March 2nd, 2005 at 02:47 am
March's goals:
~add at least $200 more to the EF - it's at 1000 right now.
~Start a freedom account and get it going and start funding it
~No A/C this month
~continue to keep kwh under 50 a day.
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March 2nd, 2005 at 02:45 am
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