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  1. 07-14-2010, 07:14 PM #1
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    Default I saved $105.49 today!!!!

    SUPER SAVINGS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! After talking to a customer service rep at the hospital where I have an annual cancer follow-up appointment, I got my bill for a chest x-ray down to $310 from $380 with a prompt pay discount! THEN I saved $15.49 at the grocery store by combining store coupons and manufacturers coupons! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    May Goals:
    Only $300 for groceries this month - $206/$300
    Monthly coupon/valued customer savings = $14.08
    No wasted food!
    Stick to budget!
    Track spending DAILY
    Get checkbook balanced
    Save $200 toward EF: $85/$200

    2012 FV Challenges: Try New Recipes Challenge: 22/52, Menu Planning Challenge: 21/52, Grocery Reduction Budget Challenge, Change Jar Challenge: $27.81 as of 1-14-12, Lose A Pound A Week Challenge: 3/48, No Wasted Food Challenge

    2012 Goals

    1. To pay off CC (only $917.15 left!) and never again charge more than I can pay off each month.
    2. Snowball the CC payment into Sears Credit Card bill (no interest) and get it paid off ASAP.
    3. Snowball the CC and Sears card payments into hospital bill (due w/ Baby #2 via C-section in mid-January). Pay that off ASAP.4. Snowball payments into DH's student loan (as of 12/4/11 there's still $4770.84 remaining). Pay off by 12/31/12.
    5. Keep our grocery budget to $300 each month.
    6. Use Dave Ramsey's budget sheet and get on track with this each pay period.
    7. Get and keep checkbook balanced and keep an eye (weekly if not daily) on our e-statements.
    8. Get savings account up to $8,000 (incl. emergency fund)
    9. Make 2 Christmas gifts per month: 0/24.
    10. Get our home organized: use a receipt book, keep my coupon organizer in check, have a touch-once policy for paper (touch once and then file or toss).
    11. Achieve "give or get" goal of $1500 for the board I serve on by 9/30/12.
    12. Taxes filed by March 17.
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  2. 07-14-2010, 08:32 PM #2
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    I hate to rain on the parade, but isn't that a savings of $85.49?


    Either way--awesome job! Especially on the prompt pay discount!
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  3. 07-14-2010, 10:52 PM #3
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    Great Job!
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    That's fantastic!!
    Wife to DH ~ 15 years
    Mom to DD ~ 14 yrs old
    Mom to DS ~ 24 yrs old
    Fur mom to Nikko - Rottweiler, Maxx - German Shepherd-(my avatar pic), and Reno - Husky/Chow mix.
    *Rest peacefully my sweet Maxx*
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    2012 Challenges
    Grocery budget~$/$300
    No spend days~/31 *Goal 15/31 days
    No eat out days~1/31 *Goal 15/31 days
    EF - /$1000.00
    Christmas fund - $110/$350
    Weekly Menu challenge - /52
    YTD Coupon total - $2173
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  5. 07-15-2010, 12:36 AM #5
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    congrats!!
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  6. 07-15-2010, 01:10 AM #6
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