I have to say that Hotsauce and I are a little giddy to start this new month! Here it is month two and God has been so very good to us!
We are only a few hundred dollars away from having completed Baby Step #1 of the Total Money Makeover! Thursday is payday and we will have that knocked out of the park!!! There will be happy dancing, high fiving and joyous celebrating! I imagine that we will spread the money out on the floor and make "snow angels" to mark the point when we begin on our Debt Snowball. Well, that is we would, if the money was in the house and not in the bank... but maybe we will just make some confetti and throw it in the Nanny's room. That way I'm not responsible for cleaning up the mess! ;)
For just a quick change of subject, about that Nanny girl. I've decided that "Nanny" doesn't clearly communicate our friendship and so from here on out the woman formerly known as the Nanny will now be played by "S.O.S" which stands for Sister Of Sorts. Our Turkey Bottoms all call her their older sister and she is helping to save our sinking ship known as our finances by living with us and so I love this new nickname!
So we shall confetti-ize (yes, that's a word) S.O.S.'s room on Thursday. And she shall be so excited!
After supper tonight we sat down to go over the budget and examine whether we had considered all of our October needs. Turns out that we had forgotten about our home school group dues, the cost for Financial Peace University class that our church is hosting and some other odds and ends. Fortunately, we will be having our small group at our home again this month so we won't have to pay for a babysitter and that frees up some of our budget. Also I'm having a garage sale this weekend with my favorite mother-in-law and praying that will bring in some extra money.
Think there's a chance that I can earn $2,500 in a garage sale? Especially since we're marking almost everything at 50 cents a piece? We're still working on paying for a cow and we've also added a pig into the mix! Perhaps we should consider becoming vegetarians? We're also going to need tires on the Suburban soon and there's the maintenance fee for that stupid timeshare that we bought on our honeymoon. Grrrrr.
How's your October budget looking? Got enough extra to buy a timeshare in Palm Beach, Florida? Seriously, it's real cheap... you should pray about it! ;)
We are only a few hundred dollars away from having completed Baby Step #1 of the Total Money Makeover! Thursday is payday and we will have that knocked out of the park!!! There will be happy dancing, high fiving and joyous celebrating! I imagine that we will spread the money out on the floor and make "snow angels" to mark the point when we begin on our Debt Snowball. Well, that is we would, if the money was in the house and not in the bank... but maybe we will just make some confetti and throw it in the Nanny's room. That way I'm not responsible for cleaning up the mess! ;)
For just a quick change of subject, about that Nanny girl. I've decided that "Nanny" doesn't clearly communicate our friendship and so from here on out the woman formerly known as the Nanny will now be played by "S.O.S" which stands for Sister Of Sorts. Our Turkey Bottoms all call her their older sister and she is helping to save our sinking ship known as our finances by living with us and so I love this new nickname!
So we shall confetti-ize (yes, that's a word) S.O.S.'s room on Thursday. And she shall be so excited!
After supper tonight we sat down to go over the budget and examine whether we had considered all of our October needs. Turns out that we had forgotten about our home school group dues, the cost for Financial Peace University class that our church is hosting and some other odds and ends. Fortunately, we will be having our small group at our home again this month so we won't have to pay for a babysitter and that frees up some of our budget. Also I'm having a garage sale this weekend with my favorite mother-in-law and praying that will bring in some extra money.
Think there's a chance that I can earn $2,500 in a garage sale? Especially since we're marking almost everything at 50 cents a piece? We're still working on paying for a cow and we've also added a pig into the mix! Perhaps we should consider becoming vegetarians? We're also going to need tires on the Suburban soon and there's the maintenance fee for that stupid timeshare that we bought on our honeymoon. Grrrrr.
How's your October budget looking? Got enough extra to buy a timeshare in Palm Beach, Florida? Seriously, it's real cheap... you should pray about it! ;)
OH my goodness, your "you should pray about it!" comment made me laugh so hard!!! :o) I'm loving following you along on your journey.
ReplyDeleteStephanie,
DeleteYou have no debt so I think that means that God wants you to have a timeshare to celebrate! I will include confetti free of charge, because that's the kind of friend I am!
Always thinking of others,
Mama D!
Did our spending on paper last night. Blew the fuel budget in Sept... :( planned buffer for Oct. thankful for God providing for us in many ways.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing the way that God takes care of us even when we "blow it"! What is your planned buffer? Can you explain how that works?
DeleteGot enough extra to buy a bow tag for Hotsauce?
ReplyDeleteAh, yes... the hunting dilemma of 2012! We could probably swing it. But, probably not going to happen. Fortunately a good friend of ours from church is going to buy him a shot gun! Isn't that amazing? ;) So we will save the money for a tag during shot gun season!
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