After last month's spending disaster on food, I went to grocery shopping for this time. I spent $96. I got twio kinds of bread, variety of vegatables, fruits, salad topings such as dried fruit and nuts, chicken and smoked salmon fat free feta cheese and cream cheese. The fridge is full, seriously. There is no need to go out for lunch or dinner for two weeks. Today for lunch I made bbq cheese pizza for two (4.99) and for dinner smoked salmon, fat free cream cheese sandwich for dinner.
My grocery list:Pecan halves
Dried cranberries
Dried sweet apple rings
Dried hibiscus flower (never tried before)
Sesame seed bread
French baquette
Frozen bbq chicken cheese pizza
Cheese cracker
Granola 3 berries
Olive spread
Dried tomato
cherries
Spinach lasagna (2)
Spinach thin pizza (comes 6 in the package)
Smoked salmon
Strawberries
Cherry tomato
Sweet potato
Asparagus
Mushroom
Mango
Avocado
Chicken strips
Fat free cream and feta cheese
3 different kinds of mixed greens in a package
Wow I got so much, dont you think? This should be enough for 2 people for two weeks. I mean at least one week.
I am really concerned about four categories in my budget: clothing, dining out, home decoration and overdraft charges.
Clothing: $341 wtf? My birthday was this month. I guess I felt free to spend on whatever I want on. During June I plan to purchase nothing. I don’t need anything anyways.
Dining out:$332. This is for two people most of the time it is either a quick dinner or lunch. My grocery bill was $202. As you can see I ended up spending more on going out then grocery. Well I don’t cook very much. Total spending on food is $502 for two.
Home decoration: $270 Now days I am in this renovation mood and I know it s not good for my budget. I
Overdraft charges: $70 wow this one is a bad one. I normally don’t have any problem in this area. This month my budget got messed up and I ended up over drafting my checking. I just need to focus one day at a time and do a better job during June.
May 29- June 12
Starting $1,660
Budgeted:
Rent: 655
Dining out and grocery: 100
Gas: 75
Student loan: 330
Wells: 350
Hair: $50
Unexpected loan repayment:100
My morning routine is to decide what three things I'd like to accomplish today. During any day little things come up and I get distracted. In order to have a productive day I started making sure 3 most important things being accomplish during any given day.
Today's Must Dos
-take dog to walk and go to gym failed
-sit down and start planning my online business website failed
-there is one room in my house I am going to use it as my home office so the goal is for today completely clean that room! Done
Spending:
Ikea visit: $32
Dinner: $10
Vintage store:$11
Total:$53
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From now on I will keep track of my daily spending and post here every day. I sometimes feel I am totally out of focus as a result spending too much.
Today budgeted $10
Update: $7 sushi
This is embarrasing to confess that I went to ikea after work and purchased couple of things I needed. I got a spice rack, a shelf for the kitchen and shoe organizer. Damage is $55 including ikea's famous dinner. :)
Total spent today: $62
Budgeted: $10 ugh..
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I just installed an application on my itouch called blogpress and this is my first post. I try never use my work computer for personal reasons especially for blogging. This will be a great option for me to post during lunch time or jot down things whenever I want.
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This month is suprisingly going well eventhough I've been threaten by termination at work because of something totally has been misunderstood. It has been resolved, now it is all fine. Online income during April was minimal on the other hand, so far I have made $300 during May. I sold two domain names I own. I purchased them one year ago for $10 each. I've been contacted via email by someone who wants to purchase the domain names. He asked me the price I said each $150. He accepted sent $300 via paypal sweet! Transfering the domain names were absoluetly pain in the neck. Especially since they were purchased via blogger/google apps. Where did I come up with $150 each? To tell you the truth, I dont know. I didnt have any guidelines. Perhaps I sold them underpriced. When I said $150, the dude said it is fair. Was it really fair? I dont know.
