Sabrina’s Money Madness

This year was my 5th year with my company. You don’t get your 3rd week of vacation until you start your 6th year though. So as of this year I still only have 2 weeks of vacation. I try to hoard those days until the last possible moment. Right now I still have 4 days […]

My lease is up at the end of March of next year. I want to buy a house next year but my money from the program that I’m in won’t be ready until the end of July. The property management company does let you extend your lease but only in weird increments. It’s either 3 […]

Once a month I do a post where I talk about the stuff I won the preceding month. Sometimes I win big stuff and sometimes it’s something small like a $5 gift card. No matter what it is, I’m happy to win it.
By the time the prize finally comes, I’m usually at a loss what […]

Ahhh another way to get great gifts without getting hit hard in the pockets. I love it. This time I’m turning in a bunch of points that I’ve accumulated. The points have come from various internet searches, opinion sites and survey sites. I save all of the points that I earn and I turn them […]

I win a lot of little gift cards. Most are $5 or $10 with the occassional $25 or $50. Well now the holidays are coming up and I don’t know what to get people. First I’m going to gift the gift cards away as gifts. Then I’ll use some of the smaller ones to buy […]

He was cordial at least. I didn’t even want to get into it. I just said hello like I would for anyone else and kept walking. No need to be nice or even try to suck up.
My coworker said I should have asked why he chose the other candidate over me but I really don’t […]

This is employee appreciation week. It annoys me to no end because for 1 week management acts like you’re “so important” while you don’t hear a peep for the other 50 weeks of the year.
It also seems very “coinky-dental” that our employee satisfaction survey is due at the same time. So ply us with cheesy […]

Yesterday was a football game and I expected noise during the game, perhaps even after. But my neighbors must have been in full party mode because they were noisy all night long. Had it been Friday night it wouldn’t have been so bad, but it was a Sunday and Monday was not a holiday.
I’m glad […]

I’m not even in school anymore. I went to take a civil service exam this morning and that test was crazy hard. While I did understand the contents of the questions, some of them were extremely vague and out of left field. I don’t even think I could have done any better had I just […]

I updated my monthly numbers to say that I have $890 in my house savings account. What I didn’t include was that $205 of that is my new 10% savings number which means that I only actually have $685 of my $2000 goal. My new goal for the account is $2,300 because the minimum of […]

Not a bad month if I do say so myself. I won a lot of stuff:

A coupon for a pack of sour patch kids
$30 code to NFL shop - which I used for a Steelers long sleeve T-shirt
1 year supply of fruit snacks - I’m going to have fruit snacks for a long time
A coupon […]

I’m a little over a quarter of a way to my goal. At the end of August my balance was $515. During the month of September I added $375 for a total of $890. My goal is $2,000 by the end of May of next year so I have $1,110 to go.
Those totals are decent […]