Payday! Payday!

My husband has been out of town for three weeks, so admittedly there was some money spent this week that was celebratory. It was nice to splurge, but we’re back on the straight and narrow again.

• $80 Costco
• $59 Target
• $130 Academy Sports
• $14 Which Wich
• $23 gas
• $164 State Farm – car insurance
• $42 Time Warner – internet
• $128 utilities
• $490 car payment – Prius
• $500 Chase
• $14 vet
• $18 Staples
• $22 Five Guys
• $100 Book People
• $7 Jimmy Johns
• $110 Gap Outlet
• $14 UT volleyball
• $570 ING

See that $570 to ING? That breaks down to $500 to emergency savings account, $50 to down payment fund, and $20 for Blogher ’11.

• $25 Post Office
• $63 grocery
• $20 Groupon
• $8 parking/drink at Austin tweet-up

Did you take advantage of the amazing Gap Groupon this week? The site troubles were worth $25 for $50 worth of merchandise at any Gap store. Plus, I had a $5 off Groupon coupon!

Where did you spend your money this week?

Yikes! I was out of town last weekend so I have double the Daily Dollars to list, but am super happy we were able to put some money towards our emergency fund this month.

• $150 pet hotel
• $129 cabs
• $108 grocery
• $376 car payment – Corolla*
• $190 Capital One**
• $200 Chase
• $320 ING – emergency fund
• $28 gas
• $180 Sprint
• $29 eBay seller fees
• $58 ProFlowers
• $12 Real Simple (1-year)
• $10 IKEA

*Only one year left on the Corolla payments! Par-tay!

* Paid in full. Woot woot!

A few weeks ago, I finally had my fill of washing every dish in the house (re: a few mismatches plates and bowls) whenever we wanted to sit down to a decent meal. So, I scoured the internet for new dinnerware sets and ended up ordering a fantastic set of orange Sengware dishes from CSN Stores.

I couldn’t be happier with my experience with CSN. The dishes are top quality, the site is easy to use, and the shipping was prompt and free.

I just need to finish my Sengware set with a few extra plates and bowls and I won’t have to scramble to wash dishes before dinner anymore!

CSN is providing a gift certificate to be used towards completing my dishware set. All opinions are 100% mine. Please see my site policy with any questions.

Payday! Payday!

Oh, wait. That just means there’s a stack of bills to pay and no money for two more weeks.

Damn.

• $13 Costco
• $863 rent & water
• $490 car payment – Prius
• $41 cable
• $140 electric
• $335 Chase

So, where did you spend your money this week? Join in Daily Dollars and fess up!

I think I just figured out the key to financial freedom – it’s easy to not spend money when you don’t have any money.

• $2 Sonic
• $34 groceries
• $25 gas

So, where did you spend your money this week? Join in Daily Dollars and fess up!

Since I usually post on Saturday, I think it’s fair to say that I’m a day late and a dollar short.

• $376 car payment – Corolla
• $12 Post Office
• $36 Target
• $22 gas
• $15 Capital One
• $110 Chase
• $94 Sprint
• $164 State Farm – car insurance

So, where did you spend your money this week? Join in Daily Dollars and fess up!