Give Me Back My Five Bucks

hEiDi left a comment on my blog post, Some thoughts about money. Would love to see a post about your financial goals. For example, why $5,000 for your emergency fund or why $25,000 for your retirement? You are such a motivation for my husband and I. We are on the road to being debt free and hopefully soon after that financially independent too! Thanks for your blog! Why $5,000 for your emergency fund? $5k isn’t a lot of money, but for my life right now, it would represent 3-4 months of living expenses based on my current budget. Of course, … Continue reading →

I didn’t get much done this weekend. I wanted to go grocery shopping and do some laundry at BF’s house. Oh well. I can do my shopping today after work, and my laundry tomorrow. Saturday morning I dropped BF off at work and headed to the ski hill by myself. I was lucky. We haven’t gotten much snow lately, but when I was up there we got about 5 cm of new snow, and the skiing wasn’t so bad. I worked on my technique and even went down a blue run a few times. It was pretty nice, going skiing … Continue reading →

Someone is offering to buy my Flight of the Conchord tickets for $300/pair. I’m really tempted. That’s over double what I paid for them ($120/pair). It’s difficult. I want to see FOTC a lot. But I’d also like $300 to put in my Travel Fund. I could probably get more than $300 if I wait until a bit closer to the show. I saw that some FOTC tickets were selling for over $400/pair.

I checked ING and PC Financial again today, and they’re down from the last time I checked 2 weeks ago. Today… ING is at 1.85% PC Financial is at 1.65% Bummer.

BF has to work all weekend. Boo! Tomorrow I think that I will drop BF off at work, and then head to the ski hill by myself. I’ve never gone myself before, so it will kind of be an adventure. Then afterward I’ll probably head to the gym for a good long workout. I love going with my friend, but her workouts are always so short. I never feel like I’m at the gym long enough. Also have to clean up my apartment and go grocery shopping. I’m not sure what BF and I will do in the evening – … Continue reading →