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[rafala]

i hope to start posting things on ebay. I think i will wait until october or so to start putting things up in hopes of getting some early xmas shoppers looking for a deal. hopefully that will bring in some money in october/november

karen


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[sdlee]

I finally remembered to post my husband's textbooks from last year on half.com. Hopefully that will bring in a little cash. I'm trying to build up an emergency fund, since once school starts in Sept., we won't be putting much into savings. Full time kindergarten is EXPENSIVE!!


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[3tbear]

You know how tag sales usually have a box of FREE stuff? Well, I saved on shampoo and conditioner for my hair this month, got it free at a local tag sale. Cool deal huh? That's more money in my pocket right there.

[AndersonGal]

I LOVE the freebie box!
Try to control myself from taking the whole thing. LOL
That was a good find!

[rafala]

well, I have gotten my bank statement that takes me through august and thought i would report on how we did this month. Our checking is up a little under $600 but we got a check from the gov. for $1200 so that isnt that good. but i did have a few unexpected buys, like mattress' for the kids beds and glasses for my son which takes us close to $500. some of the extra money is from dh taking classes and i dont think he has gotten reimbursed from the last class yet. so, although i didnt stay in budger persay, my son can see and i can now change the sheets on my kids beds so i'm not too upset.

having a yard sale this month so hopefully will make a few hundred on that, have a lot of baby things to get rid of (crib, strollers, etc)

how did everyone else do for august??

karen


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[sdlee]

How did I do in August?

Hmmm, let's just say I'm waiting for my mystery shopping checks to come in and I'm trying to prepare meals from what I have in the pantry and freezer right now. There were WAY too many sales on meat and clothing last month!

My husband's atrocious dental bills didn't help either!

[AndersonGal]

Well, I didnt worry about August with Vacation & All.
September has been SO busy with Demo's and Mystery Shops that I don't know how I'm doing. Been spending most of my $ on Christmas and goodies. I MUST make up my own little finacial plan for my new found income. About $600 this month from my little *gigs*. Could drop down to $50 next month so guess I should go by %.

October I WILL be better!
I will plan on my own baby budget:

*Gas
*Spending/Xmas
*Family Budget Contribution

I need to get back in the groove.

[rafala]

well, the month isnt over but i think we did pretty good. we had a neighborhood yard sale and I made $145!!! comes in handy. plus we signed to refinance last week and our payments are going down by over $200!! plus we will be getting $750 back and I complained the the mortgage company that the credit check they did was inaccurate and made us jump through unneccessary hoops, found a judgement against my hubby that was satisfied over 5 years ago but the info they got said it was still there but hubbies credit report didnt show it a week after the mortgage company got their report, bogus, so they are going to send up $25, plus we wont have an october payment. so as long as i didnt do a major mess up with spending we are ahead of the game for september and october will be good as well

plus after the yard sale i kept out some things to put on ebay so hopefully will get some more money that way.

also, dh's annual review comes up soon and he should get a 4 - 5% increase wooohooo

now have to start thinking about xmas.

karen


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