Give Me Back My Five Bucks

Monday 14th + $1,215.72 freelance/side income $40.21 gas Tuesday 15th $67.14 early bird registration for FINCON11 Wednesday 16th No Spend Day! Thursday 17th $50 Nexus application $1.29 iTunes $23.24 iStock credit $4.27 groceries Friday 18th $10.01 pizza Saturday 19th $17.75 Noodle Box Sunday 20th $36 field hockey uniform $58.13 groceries WEEKLY EXPENSES: – $308.04 WEEKLY SIDE INCOME*: + $1,215.72 TOTAL: + $907.68 This was an spendy week with a lot of one-off expenses – such as the registration for FinCon, my Nexus application (which will be good for 5 years), iStock credits, and a field hockey uniform. Of course, I … Continue reading →

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I’m playing in my social field hockey league’s championship game. So by the time you read this, we could be champions! :) Which would be great, considering my competitive field hockey team ended up missing the playoffs completely and finishing third to last. Can’t win ‘em all, I guess. What would you do with $1 million? A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about what I would do if I won $1 million. I answered the question on March 5, 2007. And I answered it again, 4 years later – in an attempt to see … Continue reading →

I had been saving my Amazon gift cards through Swagbucks (affiliate link) to buy the Kindle. Originally, I was against e-readers (and I still am, sort of), because I love the feeling of real books. I love the smell of them, opening them up for the first time, the feeling of holding one, and being able to lend them to friends. What I do not like, however, is the weight. I like bringing at least 2 books with me on every trip, but that can get heavy! Especially when I put them in my purse for the plane ride. And … Continue reading →

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! On Tuesday I bought my early bird ticket to the Financial Blogger Conference. Now that I’m committed to going, I need to start budgeting out my trip. My vacation days are booked, and I will be spending 3 days in the Windy City. A quick glance at Expedia tells me that flights from Vancouver to Chicago will cost me around $550 roundtrip. A flight across the border from Bellingham will cost a little less, at around $480. But that means, I need to factor in the time and cost to get to the airport, and parking … Continue reading →

Monday 7th $43.97 gas Tuesday 8th No Spend Day! Wednesday 9th + $355 freelance/side income $1.29 iTunes $10 present Thursday 10th No Spend Day! Friday 11th No Spend Day! Saturday 12th $6.37 Wendy’s Sunday 13th $2.90 corner store $50.66 groceries WEEKLY EXPENSES: – $115.19 WEEKLY SIDE INCOME *: + $355 TOTAL: + $239.81 Groceries were a bit higher this week because we decided to buy a lot of fish for the freezer. BF wants to cut out most red meat from our diets, so fish it is! Other than that, it was a normal week of spending with nothing exciting to … Continue reading →