Give Me Back My Five Bucks

I have been speaking with someone who might hire me to do some contract work on an on-going basis. It will pay $25/hr, and I’d basically be creating book layouts in Adobe InDesign for offset printing, or digital print-on-demand. The pay isn’t that great as far as contract work goes, but a few of my friends work full-time for a publishing company doing book layouts, and they only make $12-14/hr. Plus, I’m just getting started. Fingers crossed that I get the job! Last night, I made Texas chicken pizza for dinner. There’s just something about rolling out my own pizza … Continue reading →

I bought sunglasses today for $239.45, and I’m going to pay for it out of my Emergency Fund. Before you go and think I’ve fallen off the frugal wagon, it’s not what you think. I can justify my purchase! I wear glasses pretty much 24/7, so when it gets too sunny out, I’ve been having to wear regular sunglasses … and I’m getting really dizzy and sick walking around with blurry vision. No, I didn’t have to get the fancy Ralph Lauren glasses, but $200 of the cost will be covered by my medical plan, so I figured I might … Continue reading →

This will be a tough month because my part-time job with the hockey team has ended for the season. Today I’m submitting my application for an usher at the arena, but I doubt it’ll bring in the $250-300/month I was making with the hockey team. Granted, that’s not a lot of money either, but it’s more than the $100-$150 I plan to pull in with the ushering job. I still make a comfortable amount with my full-time job to not really need a part-time job when it comes down to it, but every dollar counts! May 2007 goals: Pay off … Continue reading →

Today was pay day, so I updated the sidebar. I put $800 towards my line of credit (almost have that paid off!), $150 for rent, $50 into my RRSP, $150 into the Emergency Fund, and $175 into the Condo Down Payment Fund. I also had to pay my cell phone bill of $42. The rest of my money went to pay off the charges on the credit card that I’ve spent over the last two weeks, but that was only $158.05 – and that was ALL of my spending for two whole weeks, including groceries. I think that’s pretty good! … Continue reading →

Today’s goal at work: get rid of all the clutter piled up on my desk! It’s amazing how disgusting my office got in just a week of intense work on a project. Now that I’m finished, it’s time to de-clutter and organize … then get working on all the crap I’ve been ignoring! Tomorrow, I’m going for coffee with a good friend that I’ve blogged about before. I have a sneaking suspicion she’s living off of her credit cards, and transferring balances around to make minimum payments, but I hope I’m wrong. When I see her, I’m not going to … Continue reading →