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Yesterday's spending: $25 for toilet paper at Sam's, and $2 for laundry. Variables are at 11%.
I forgot to report that last month's variables spending was only 54% of the allotted amount. A very good month.
My son in Oregon is in the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Unfortunately, the appendix burst, so he is in a lot of pain and in danger of infection. I am very stressed about that. I am also stressed because I have several spots that the Urgent Care doctor wants me...
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I finally got a hold of the IRS as we had to do an amendment, we paid what they said we owed (once we figured it out properly) which was lower than what they said (before the amendment was put in), they said they have the amendment but haven't done it yet and that our outstanding balance has been given to collections, but to call them and as them to wait on everything until the amendment has been done...they gave me a number 367 941 1004...I call but it says it is a erong number...I...
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So I haven't posted in two months I realized looking. I also haven't been online much.  April was busy and I ended the month visiting my parents for the first weekend of May.  I got back on the 8th and then everything in the month went off the rails.
My DH got into a scooter accident which they called a motorcycle accident.  I was calling him around 6 pm one night to confirm he was picking up our second child.  Some random person answered (note if you keep...
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Well it's been another eventful month! I got laid off at the beginning of the month from the company where I've worked for 17 years. I guess they're shrinking the marketing arm even more because the profits aren't there.
The good news is I got a decent severance agreement. I got 3 more weeks of work (my last day will be this Friday), 12 weeks' severance pay after that, and health insurance through June. (After that it's COBRA or Obamacare for me, NT and the kids, so I know that...
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Housing - $769
Utilities - $171 (low because gas bill did not hit this month, due to holiday)
Groceries - $100
Fees/Services - $40 (replenishment of tollway pass)
Vacation/Travel - $36 (short trip to brother's house)
Medical/Health - $33 (premium and band aids)
Eating Out/Takeout - $30
Gas - $28
Furnishings/Equipment/Decor - $24 (avocado keeper, mini-cooler)
Entertainment - $23 (streaming)
Laundry - $20
Household Supplies - $16 (dishwasher detergent)
Home Repair/Maintenance...
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Debts
Mortgage −$114,618.73 (-$243.94)Land Loan -$9,923.77 (-$187.82)Hospital Bill - $966.41 (-$75)
Savings
Roth IRAs +$26,119 (-$113)401K +$50,212 (+$265)Emergency Fund +$6,964 (-$1,224)Animal Fund +$1,210 (+$4)Car Fund +$20 (-$0)HSA +$101 (-$784)
Overall: -$1,345.24
Ouch! The expected vet bills along with an unexpected and sudden termite swarm which cost $1,200 to remedy really did us in this month.
Some good news is that both our land loan and our medical loan dropped...
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The hub wanted me to create a written record of our financials in case anything happens to me.  Until now, he primarily has made the money, and I have managed it.  I have a fairly detailed process, but everything is on my computer - he prefers a notebook that we can keep in our safe.  I decided this was a GREAT opportunity to get him more involved with how finances work so that we can hopefully dial in the monthly budget a little more. I found a budget book...
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I really can't believe it, but we had another raise announced this week. It was 5% this time. I never would have expected another raise after the 16% raise we received last year & the 4% annual raise we got in January. I think we are also going to get retroactive pay for the raise back to April. What makes this better than the 10% retention is that it goes toward your pension calculation & your match calculation.
I have no plans to increase savings. If I end up with a...
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begin - beginning checking account balance
pr - my net payroll check
SB - my contribution to our joint living expenses
cash - cash until next payday
SF - automatic transfers to sinking funds scheduled for 5/30/23
Citi MC - the balance this time covered 3 bills:  Verizon, Netflix, and Sirius XM.
CarMax - a payment towards my car loan.  I thought it would be fun to add another dollar every time, so that's what I did. The new balance is $21,645.14.
house DP - a...
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I had my first dental appointment for my crown this morning.  The dentist said he was drilling deep and that when the novacaine wore off my jaw was going to be sore.  He was sure right about that.  (I went home afterwards and took a nap).
After he drilled, they did another xray.  He said that he feels for best results, the tooth needs a root canal.  Ugh!  He referred me to an endodonist for that.  My share of cost will be approximately $550,...
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I haven't reported any spending since the 15th, but actually I haven't spent all that much. I spent $21 on groceries at Aldi, plus another $4 for an avocado keeper (which worked fairly well -- the avocado still developed a brown skin but it was easy to scrape off). On Saturday I took a long walk and stopped at a favorite eatery, where I spent $25. I had enough leftovers for a second meal, but still, it seemed like a lot for a brunch. Today I spent $3 on a car wash, the second one...
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We went to a local college arboretum last weekend.  The pictures don't do it justice but I've never seen such vibrant poppies anywhere else. 
As to everything else, I wouldn't know where to begin.  I touched on some of it in my monthly wrap up.
Work is a spiraling vortex of insanity. 
My employee is leaving me.  😭😭😭
This is forseeable because she has wanted to move out of state and have babies, probably the entire time she has worked at this...
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I lost my beloved Buffy on Mother's Day.   I took her to the emergency vet on Saturday morning for an issue which resolved itself while she was there, but they said, "while she's here, why don't we just do an x-ray and see if anything we don't know about is going on?"  and they gave her a pain shot.  
It was more intervention than she could tolerate and she was not the same cat when she got home.  I waited 24 hours in case she improved--sometimes...
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Take 'one size fits all' financial advice with a grain of salt.
Probably the #1 question I get about credit card churning is "Doesn't that destroy your credit score?" ~ that we close the cards when we are done using them.
It does absolutely nothing to our credit score.  It appears that 90%+ of our credit score is just always having paid on time.  & utilization otherwise seems to be the only thing that has any bearing on our credit score.  If I apply for 3 new...
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Do you think the US govt will default and what will it mean for those reliant on social security, US pensions etc? how will they pay things...and do you think the politicians will still take their paychecks? Hope they can get it sorted...but I don't live over there so am I reading it all wrong?
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Today I transferred $313 out of my ins/reg fund to pay the 5th wheel registration.  I also transferred $406.65 from my Gilligan fund to pay for the vet bill to have him neutered.  I also sent proof of neuter off to the shelter last week, and returned my signed adoption contract via email yesterday.  Gilligan is officially my dog.
I just hate it when my savings balance goes down instead of up, but of course the money had been set aside for those particular expenses.
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Thank you all so much for the well wishes! I am on the mend, still a bit sore around the incision site (abdominal) and I tire out easily, but I do feel a little better and stronger every day. My follow up exams have all been very positive.
I noticed that I had a bunch of CVS extra care bucks that were getting close to expiring so my BF picked me up (I'm not yet cleared to drive) and we went to the store. I purchased 2, 9 roll jumbo roll packs of name brand TP. I used $20.06 worth...
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My SnugglyBumps has been working on a project.  He decided that he wanted to open an online store.  He designed a cover, put it on a hardback notebook with good quality paper, and his link has gone live on Amazon.
He has some additional products in the pipeline which are not ready for sale just yet.  
Here is his cover, a tribute to our sweet Nala Jean:

Please note:  I am just sharing.  This is not an attempt to sell a product.   I am...
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