I can't believe it is end of September. We have successfully completed the first month of school. I have been doing this blog for almost 8 years 7 years ago this month I did
One hundred things about my money life I took a look back at some things that changed. Many things stayed the same even though my boys are growing up. I was frugal then and I am frugal now.
What changed....
2. I don't need tivo, if I
want to record something. I got a vcr.
(VCR is long no longer around but we have Hulu plus)
3. I don't have an Ipod, I
got plenty of CDs and the radio I did get an ipod shuffle in 2007 and I did
treat myself to an iphone in 2010. I know it a want not a need. I will have it for years no need to upgrade again.
7 We do have cable tv, but I refuse upgrade to digital tv. We did upgrade to digital cable for a few years when they gave us a decent package but
we dropped down to basic cable in 2011.
20. I do have one car loan which should be paid off within 18 months.
(That car is long paid off and I am still driving it. We bought another car in June 2009 100% cash.
I hope to never have a car loan again)
21. I am on Dave Ramsey'
Baby step number 3 but I don't follow all of his rules. I like Dave for debt reduction. We are currently doing steps 4 and 5 –retirement
and college. Ocassionally
I go back to step 3 if we needed to dip into the Emergency fund.
40. I live in Walmart Not really anymore more of a Target girl since
they openend in my neighborhood 5 years ago.
41`. I have a budget category called Walmart Nope got rid of this
42. I buy Walmart brand diapers Luckily not anymore my kids have been potty trained for years.
47. Saturday nights that
menu plans usually goes out the window.
(actually we are much better about this now-especially since I got 2 boys that don’t eat off the
kids menu anymore. We have established pizza and movie night for Saturdays in our house
48. I am not organized
enough to use coupons. Actually I have
gotten better on this!
50. I go to the bread
store and get good deals there Bread store closed down years ago.
94. I am filling up my gas
tank today. It was $2.75 at the station down the street. (Gas
it about $3.80 a gallon)
97. They just said with gas could go up to $4.00 a gallon with Hurricane Rita on the radio. Gas did hit over $4.00 a gallon
97. They just said with gas could go up to $4.00 a gallon with Hurricane Rita on the radio. Gas did hit over $4.00 a gallon
99. DH's work isn't that
far. I wish I could say this was true. He
got laid off from a year in 2009 and it took about 6 months to find another
money. Luckily we had savings plus
unemployment. He is making less than he at his old job.
HOW DO YOU SAVE MONEY?
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3 comments:
Sorry, I didn't realize that you can't post a giveaway. It is a really good book for people who are living on less.
That is ok Diane I just don't want this to be pull of all giveaways :)
Wow! That's a lot of change in 8 years. I think it's amazing that you wrote the list out, and can take stock of how far you've come now.
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