Give Me Back My Five Bucks

Well, the good news is that I came under budget for May. The bad news is the only reason I came under budget is because I didn’t have to pay my $725 rent. Overages: Cell phone – LD minutes and data usage from the car crash. Medical/Health Care – 3 months worth of BC and 3 months of MSP. Food – lots of eating on the go and fast food due to moving (no usable kitchen). Household – bought a couch, rented a moving van, IKEA trip and Home Depot miscellaneous due to the move. Entertainment – when BF’s brother’s … Continue reading →

Today after work we’re taking the ferry to the island. I almost always walk across, but this time we are going to drive. The cost difference is lame, but I don’t want to inconvenience anyone by having to ask to be picked up/dropped off, and it’s a lot faster to have a car than to take public transportation. 99% of the time I would opt to save money and just walk across, but this being a time for family, I didn’t feel like wasting time and stressing out by trying to catch a bus. The cost round-trip for the both … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon BF left work early and went to my old apartment to start putting things into the moving van. I didn’t do a good job of packing up my apartment. I basically packed up the essentials, and left everything else. Was not looking forward to a long evening of suck. So when I got to my apartment 2 hours later, I was very surprised to see that he had packed up my entire kitchen, and everything else was basically ready to go. He’s great. I wiped down the counters and cleaned the washroom while BF vacuumed. A few trips … Continue reading →

So, my sister is pretty sure she’s going to buy a Macbook to replace her old laptop. Because she’s still in school, she’s eligible for the Education discount. And she said she’d wait for Apple to offer a free iPod with the purchase of a computer – since they do the same promo every year before September. Then she’d just give me the iPod (!!!!!). She said she would refuse to take money from me, since she has an iPod and has no need for a new one. And she’d rather give it to me than try sell it for … Continue reading →

BudgetsAreSexy asks: What would you do with 3 financial do-overs? I personally don’t regret anything I’ve done in my life, otherwise I wouldn’t be the person I am today. You learn from everything you do, and you can take those learning experiences and apply that knowledge when new situations arise. That being said, it’s still fun (or maybe a little tragic) to think about where I would be had I done these 3 things differently: I wouldn’t have moved into my own apartment in between switching colleges. When I came back from the USA after completing 2.5 years of University, … Continue reading →