April Goals: My Review

Oh, the tragedy of my April Monthly Budget. I’ve been dreading this recap, and it really is horrifying. I’m in shock and embarrassed as to how awful I did. Sure, I was super mega stressed out, but I didn’t need to spend so much money. There’s that emotional shopper in me.

Granted, a lot of the expense was the car accident, and these numbers do include the purchase of the new car (less the $1,600 for the sale of the scooter). It doesn’t count my insurance though.

I’m happy that I had my Emergency Fund there to bail me out of a tough situation … since I clearly spent more than I earned this month. *hangs head in shame* But at least I didn’t go into debt because of it? Now I need to refocus and start to throw money back in there to bring it up to at least $3k. Since I’m moving in with BF, I don’t feel such a panic to bring it up to $5k as fast as I would have previously liked to – since if I did ever get into such an emergency that I needed $5k, I have my Travel Fund to back me up.

April Goals:

• Exercise 15x. FAIL! hahahaha what an epic FAIL. I only exercised 4x. I left my runners in the car when I got in the accident, and didn’t get them back until after J got home. And since he’s been home, all we’ve been doing is running around, trying to get our lives organized. That being said, I did lose weight. Probably due to stress though. :(

• Only buy lunch a maximum of 2 times. FAIL! I bought my lunch 4 times this month.

• No buying snacks from Tim Horton’s or 7-11. FAIL! I bought snacks 2 times.

• $300 into Retirement Portfolio. CHECK!

• $600 into Travel Fund. CHECK!

• Stay within $150 clothing budget. FAIL! I spent $183.55. :(

• Make an extra $150. CHECK! I made an additional $2,400 (selling scooter, selling FOTC tickets, making extra income from blogging)! :) But all of that money either went towards the purchase of my car, or to pay off something to do with the accident, to help BF out with buying his bike (he’s paying me back), oh and the rental car (I submitted the receipt, and will be getting a refund on it sometime soon).

• Do something social with someone new, or someone I haven’t seen in a long time. CHECK! I went out for dinner with a friend from my old work. I also popped into a store that a friend works at when I was back in my hometown, and I had a good 30 min. conversation with another friend on the phone. Wish I had gotten to see more people, but time (and especially money) is tight these days!

• Organize the boxes under my bed. FAIL! I started, but didn’t do enough.