First month of combo finances
Feb. 27th, 2004 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpWell, we're nearing the end of the month. Jennifer just got paid for next month, so I guess we can step back and see how we did.
Jen cut her credit card debt by more than half, leaving her at a paltry and much more manageable sum. She did this by getting a rather substantial tax refund, commissioning a painting, and by selling a number of fancypants pens she had on eBay. This is very exciting, as credit card debt makes me nervous. On top of that, we also finished paying off the credit card used for the Disney trip. This leaves us with her credit card and my non-Disney card (which has a balance of - I think - $300 or so), and the $100 or so we still owe on the washer and dryer. Not bad at all.
We still managed to eat out too much, but we each kept to about $100 in erroneous spending money. For the whole month! Keeping this tight budget, plus my smaller tax refund, meant that we were able to dump $600 in savings tonight. That is so freaking exciting! AND we even managed to send some money to help promote marriage equality! We were pretty good with being fiscally responsible in terms of groceries, and didn't buy too many treats (aside from dinners out). And we even managed to each get a pair of new shoes, and I got my car looked at.
Having all of my accounts in one place is kind of neat, because it makes me feel like I have whole scads of money. Although when I actually realized how much money we have access to right at this very second, it was kind of shocking. We, like, have grown-up money. WOW!
If only my job didn't owe me about $600 in back mileage checks.
Jen cut her credit card debt by more than half, leaving her at a paltry and much more manageable sum. She did this by getting a rather substantial tax refund, commissioning a painting, and by selling a number of fancypants pens she had on eBay. This is very exciting, as credit card debt makes me nervous. On top of that, we also finished paying off the credit card used for the Disney trip. This leaves us with her credit card and my non-Disney card (which has a balance of - I think - $300 or so), and the $100 or so we still owe on the washer and dryer. Not bad at all.
We still managed to eat out too much, but we each kept to about $100 in erroneous spending money. For the whole month! Keeping this tight budget, plus my smaller tax refund, meant that we were able to dump $600 in savings tonight. That is so freaking exciting! AND we even managed to send some money to help promote marriage equality! We were pretty good with being fiscally responsible in terms of groceries, and didn't buy too many treats (aside from dinners out). And we even managed to each get a pair of new shoes, and I got my car looked at.
Having all of my accounts in one place is kind of neat, because it makes me feel like I have whole scads of money. Although when I actually realized how much money we have access to right at this very second, it was kind of shocking. We, like, have grown-up money. WOW!
If only my job didn't owe me about $600 in back mileage checks.
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Date: 2004-02-28 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-28 04:38 am (UTC)If only my job didn't owe me about $600 in back mileage checks. "
Yeah, I think mine owes me just about that much. A mileage sheet I turned in recently included a road trip to Portsmouth, OH, and back in a day.
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Date: 2004-02-28 07:38 pm (UTC)how did you guys decide it was the right thing for you.
ps i found you through
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Date: 2004-02-29 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-29 08:37 pm (UTC)I need that money, dang it.
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Date: 2004-02-29 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-29 08:39 pm (UTC)But it started to become really inevitable when we started combining so many bills together, and playing the "who pays whom back" game was becoming really tiresome.
Good luck to you and The Lady, whenever you take the giant leap.
p.s. HI. :)