Sabrina’s Money Madness

I generally save all of my change and turn it in once a year. Then I get a gift card and buy something for myself. This year I had planned on turning in about $100 worth of change and putting it towards a Ipod Touch for myself. Except I just looked at my change jar […]

And they are severely cutting into my savings. Well, not cutting into my savings but instead of being able to use my raise for savings and a rainy day cushion, I have to use it to pay rent.
Last year my rent went up $10 more than my raise. This year, it’s scheduled to go up […]

I didn’t buy myself anything for Christmas. I was supposed to go and visit my family but there were some things going on that I didn’t want to be a part of so I decided to stay home. I did send my niece some money which she used to buy her daughter a bike. I […]

I wrote a post the other day about making a large payment. My largest payment besides rent and insurance is to pay my monthly credit card bills off. With the exception of one card on which I carry a balance, I use the cards for most expenses throughout the month and pay them off.
With overtime […]

I absolutely hate to see large payments come out of my checking account. Right now I rent, but pretty soon I’ll have a mortgage and that’s the largest check I want to write every month. My car is almost paid off (within 7 months) but that’s a pretty low amount. The only other large expenses […]

I guess I shouldn’t brag but I don’t have a lot of shopping to do. My niece is under 2 and her mother and my brother are the only other people that I buy gifts for, and I usually just give them money. That means no long lists with shoes, plus size bridesmaid dresses, and […]

I don’t like driving all the way across the state. It’s a long and very boring ride. I don’t any music that I can take along so I’m at the mercy of the radio. You pass a bunch of stations on the ride but there are probably on 2 good stations total. You can be […]

I did actually cancel my insurance last month and go with a new company. It was pretty much a last minute decision and I had already written and published the posts about not switching so I just left them up.
Since it was such a last minute decision, my old company processed my payment for my […]

I had a few wins this month which was good. They are:

2 candy coupons for a Dove candy bar
1 coupon for a Dove Ice Cream bar
1 12-pack of Diet Coke
1 $55 Debit Card

Not a bad month. Even though I’m allergic to chocolate I’ll share the Dove bars with coworkers. But the Diet Coke and ice […]

During the month of November I added $205 for a total of $1360. My goal is $2,300 by May which means that I still have $940 to save. I didn’t add any money to my 10% fund this month so my housing total is $1,125 with $875 to go.
I should easily make my goal […]

I generally don’t buy gifts online and have them drop-shipped. I like to see them before the recipient sees them just so I can make sure it’s what I want. I’ve been sick for the past week and I haven’t been out at all. It’s getting close to crunch time as far as the holidays […]

I just said last week that I was spoiled by my work computer. Well I’m definitely not spoiled by my work phone. Especially right now. We got new digital phones to replace the phones we already had. These are multi-line phones with a digital display, voicemail and caller id. Sounds great huh? Except when they […]