Sabrina’s Money Madness

I was supposed to put some money in a cd this month. My credit union wanted me to lock the money up for too long for a mediocre interest rate so I decided against it.
Then I got a email from one of the banks that I entered a sweepstakes through. They’re offering a $25 gift […]

Oh boy, that was not a good phone call, especially since it came from the Department of Education. Actually it came from a collection agency contracted by the dept but whatever.
When we got down to the nitty gritty details, it seems like my payments haven’t posted to my account since August of 2011. My bill […]

I know there is rule of thumb out there that says to save 1% of the value of your home every year for maintenance. But I have several friends who own there own home and they seem to spend much more than that. I’ve heard that it averages out over the years but supplies […]

And I’m a internal employee. I’ve been looking for a new job for a while. I finally got 3 interviews within the last 3 months. One job I didn’t get at all. The other 2 have me sitting around waiting.
I’ve been waiting for one job for 5 weeks. The manager was off for 2 weeks […]

Just a quick update to what I wrote the other day. I wrote the administrator and apologized for the accounts being late. I told him that I was finished with one and working on the other and it should be done by tomorrow. I was expecting him to pitch a fit but he was really […]

It’s only partially my fault though. We have a certain amount of time to get the work done which is usually enough. But I have 2 accounts instead of one and they’re both full of problems. I mean just one ridiculous thing after another. I did call the person who is waiting for the work […]

Well the snow is putting a kibosh on that. There was ice on the roads this morning but no snow on the ground. When I got almost to work, I noticed that it had started snowing. It’s been snowing for the last 3 hours and the snow is sticking and piling up.
I need to go […]

I haven’t balanced my checkbook in almost 2 weeks. Not a big deal right? For me it’s oh so wrong. I keep most of my paycheck in my checking account but it’s in separate “buckets”.
Since my main bank doesn’t have sub-accounts, ala ING, I just keep a separate piece of paper with the name of […]

I’m waiting to hear back from 2 jobs that I recently interviewed for. One was almost 5 weeks ago. The manager was actually out having surgery so it’s going to be a little longer than normal to hear from her. The second interview was this past Friday. They’re interviewing this week and next so the […]

I had a lot of little wins in December which made sweepstaking fun:

2 Coke 12 packs
3 coupons for either a single pack of M&M’s or a Snickers
Pair of movie tickets
$100 WalMart GC

The WalMart GC will be saved until I move to help buy either a vacuum cleaner and/or a new microwave. It’s so much fun […]

During the month of December I added $275 for a total of $1,635. My goal is $2,300 by May which means that I still have $665 to save. I didn’t add any money to my 10% fund this month so my housing total is $1,400 with $600 to go. I do […]

I didn’t really have a lot of goals last year, 3 actually and I didn’t meet them. So I’m going to get going in 2012 and start anew.

Get my housing account to $2,300. I’m already at $1,485 so I’m really close and I’ll definitely meet this goal.
Save an additional $1,000 for hand money ($500) and […]