May Monthly Goals

Okay, here is my budget and my goals for the month of May. BF will be able to either borrow a friend’s truck or his work van to help me move to his house, so I won’t need to worry about moving costs. I’ll treat him to a nice dinner of course. :)

I’m going to try to slowly move a few boxes here and there over the month of May, so that by the time BF borrows a moving vehicle, we’ll only have the big things to bring. Last fall when I was moving into this apartment, everything was super rushed and we felt really stressed out because we really only had access to the moving vehicle for one night.

Okay, obviously there are a few changes here. I’m not going to save as much as I’d like to save this month, but I really really want to stick to my budget. I’ve been over-budget every single month this year. I have to pay MSP this month (bummer), and this will be my last month of rent at my apartment. I put $500 for household because we need to buy a couch, fridge and some sort of coat/shoe rack. I don’t know how much it will all cost, but figured it’s better to over-estimate the cost.

I put $100 for gas and bus tickets. I’m not sure how much everything is going to cost. BF and I are going to alternate paying for gas, since he’ll be driving the car 50% of the time. I don’t think it will cost $100 for my portion, but I can adjust that for June’s budget.

BF is staying with me while his brother is in town (May 1-10), but after wards I’m thinking of getting rid of my cable. No point in having it, since I’m spending most of my time at his house anyway – plus whenever I’m at my apartment I’ll probably be packing. I’ll keep my computer with internet until the day I actually move out. I’m hoping to move out a little sooner than the end of the month, or at least have most of my stuff gone … because I don’t like being there when the landlord has to show the apartment and I’m there just being awkward. It’s weird.

May Goals:

• Climb a mountain on the May long weekend. We plan on going on a hiking trip – our first since we climbed Black Tusk back in October.
• Go rock climbing 5 times. Fingers crossed on this one.
• Half-heartedly try to find a PT job in the area that BF lives in. It might be nice to meet new people. So I’m going to look, but not very hard. Ideally I’d just want to work 1 evening shift during the work week. No weekends. Being very picky, because I really don’t need a PT job.
• Lose 3 lbs. In the past 2 months I’ve lost almost 10 lbs. Slowly I’m getting to where I want to be. My clothes are already fitting better! :)
• Post and sell my stuff on the internet. I’ve already listed a couple of things, and just need to keep that going.
• $300 in my Retirement Portfolio.
• $250 into my Savings. My Savings Fund is now going to house my car expenses as well.
• Pay off Alaskan cruise. I forgot that the final payment for the cruise is due at the end of May. Of course I was expecting it, but didn’t realize it was in May. That will be coming out of my Travel Fund (my sister paid me her portion and I dumped it into the Travel Fund a long time ago).
• Only buy the essentials (fridge/couch/hallway coat-shoe rack). It’s going to be super hard because we have to make a trip to IKEA. But really, together we have everything that we could need.
• Make an extra $300. This will hopefully come from selling stuff. I also have some income that should be coming in through my blog. Definitely not as much as last month though!
• Get my $362.50 damage deposit back from apartment landlord.
• Do something social with someone I haven’t seen in at least 3 months. This shouldn’t be hard. I’ve barely seen a lot of my friends over the past few months.

2 Responses to “May Monthly Goals”

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1. Give Me Back My Five Bucks » Oh yeah, I don’t have to pay June’s rent! says:

   Saturday, March 6, 2010 - 06:22pm at 6:26 pm

   [...] just realized something last night: I don’t have to pay the $725 rent I budgeted for May because I won’t be living in my apartment anymore come June. Now, I’m not really sure why that [...]

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2. Give Me Back My Five Bucks » Sushi dinner tonight says:

   Saturday, March 6, 2010 - 06:32pm at 6:51 pm

   [...] after we got into the car accident). I’m excited to see her, and this also fulfills one of my May Goals, which was to hang out with a friend I haven’t seen in more than 3 months. I’m probably just [...]

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