Spending Recap: November 21-27, 2011
Monday 21st
$50 Starbucks (loaded a Starbucks card to take advantage of their rewards system)
$24.48 Amazon.ca (6 Christmas presents)
Tuesday 22nd
No Spend Day!
Wednesday 23rd
No Spend Day!
Thursday 24th
+ $861.19 freelance/side income
$34.10 White Spot
Friday 25th
+ $152.99 freelance/side income
$3.75 parking
$3.75 Skytrain
$3.75 Skytrain
$20 BC Daily Deals (2 x $10)
$6.35 beer
Saturday 26th
$20.23 groceries
$9.03 Pho Tan’s
Sunday 27th
No Spend Day!
WEEKLY EXPENSES: - $175.44
WEEKLY SIDE INCOME *: + $1,014.18
TOTAL: + $838.74
First, the big HUGE news of last week – I made my television debut on CTV News Channel! That’s right, this little blogger was on national TV, talking about Black Friday shopping tips. :) Even though it wasn’t the smoothest interview (if you saw the interview, you could probably tell that I was really nervous), after years of declining TV interviews, I finally conquered my fear of live television. And I’m really proud of that. It can only get easier from here on out (I hope).
Now, back to the weekly recap. I don’t think I’ll end up earning more than $4,000 this month in freelance income (like I did during September and October), but as long as I can keep this amount steady (above $3,000), I will start to gain confidence that I can count on a certain level of income each month.
This week I started my Christmas shopping. I purchased 6 gifts (worth $180) for only $24.48 on Amazon.ca, thanks to Swagbucks. Most of you know that I save up Swagbucks to purchase Amazon gift certificates throughout the year, then spend them all around Christmas time to help cut down the cost of gifts.
I also bought 2 daily deal coupons for bowling at a place down my street ($10 for 2 games/shoe rentals for 2 people). I really, really like bowling, so I’m excited to play with my boyfriend. In case you’re wondering how I go about buying these daily deal coupons – I only buy for activities that I do on a regular basis, and would pay full price for anyway. That way, I’m not wasting money just because it’s a “good deal.”
Oh, and finally, I bought a $50 Starbucks gift card. Since I seem to be working at the coffee shop most nights, it makes sense to get a card and reap the benefits of their rewards system. Most evenings I just buy a green tea anyway. There’s just something about the background noise of the coffee shop that helps me work better.
* This is all income I bring in that is above and beyond my full-time job. Money is primarily made through my two blogs and my graphic design business.
11 Responses to “Spending Recap: November 21-27, 2011”
Author comments are in a darker gray color for you to easily identify the posts in the comments
Leave a Reply
As seen in…
Recent Comments
Categories
- annual goals (23)
- banking (26)
- blog (191)
- budget (96)
- car (41)
- contest (26)
- credit card (19)
- credit score (10)
- debt (27)
- design business (37)
- down payment (28)
- education (14)
- EI (16)
- emergency fund (18)
- entertainment (194)
- fitness (165)
- guest post (19)
- health care (56)
- housing (57)
- investing (43)
- job (298)
- making money (55)
- miscellaneous (306)
- monthly challenge (52)
- monthly goals (112)
- motivation (36)
- property (43)
- recipes and food (27)
- relationship (117)
- retirement (30)
- saving money (176)
- scooter (24)
- spending (447)
- sponsored post (8)
- tax refund (22)
- travel (302)
- vlog (2)
- weekly spending recap (80)
Congratulations on your television debut! Good for you for conquering your fear-I’m sure it will get easier with every subsequent interview you do. That’s awesome news.
AMD´s latest post —> My First Baby Shower
Congrats on the tv interview! I’m sure you did good.
Michelle´s latest post —> Final Exams start soon… UGHHHH
Congrats on the TV interview, sorry I missed it :)
Stephanie´s latest post —> Now who is obsessed?!?
Good job on the interview =) And even better idea with the swagbucks. How do you earn so much, do you use it just for searching or do you earn through their other offers? I try to search a lot but it takes me about a month just to get $5 amazon GC!
From Shopping to Saving´s latest post —> Weekly Money Check-Up 11/28/2011
I earn SBs from using their search engine, but if I must be honest, most of my points are earned through referrals. You earn 100% of each referral’s points up to 1000 each. Which can add up to a lot if you can get a couple of referrals! :)
I do the same thing with Swagbucks. I’ve got $110 in Amazon gift cards squirrled away. I also save my Shoppers Drug Mart points, I’ve got enough for the max reward, but I’m waiting for a “Spend Your Points” weekend where they up the amount you can redeem for, they always do one in Dec. That takes care of stocking stuffers, gift wrap, etc.
Argh. That reminds me I meant to sign up for the Shoppers points program. Thx. :)
I’m sure the interview went awesome! We’re always our own worst critics.
Clare – Never Niche´s latest post —> Job Transitions & Work Self Esteem
Great job on the interview.
The big shoppers points deal is on this weekend. So be sure to check out the flyer
Just out of curiosity, what do you do with the extra money made from free-lance/side income. I see that your budget includes only money from your FT job, so where does the $30K you’ve made extra this year go?
Most of it goes into savings (I’ve been saving around $2,000 every month). But keep in mind that $30k is before taxes, so I will end up owing money once I file. I’ve also been traveling a lot, and I used some of the freelance money to renovate my townhouse this summer.