Posts by beansmama

Thanks! Yeah, it's taken me slightly more than a few months to nix the spend thrifty-ness, but, oh well. Now is better than later, right?   Oh - and blog? what blog? Lol! I keep forgetting people on here "know" me,...

Tomorrow is payday. I was just balancing the checkbook and we still had $4.75 in the account, so I transferred that to our emergency fund. Whoa. Okay, so that might not be a big deal to most, but this is how I *used* to be with...

3/1 -  no spend! 3/2 -  budget spending. $6 on fruit. We only have $6 to last us 9 days, but we have pretty much everything we need...so...yeah! Crossing fingers! 3/3 -  no spend! (okay, so the...

3/1 - coconut curry rice (had lots of garbanzo beans and veggies in it...wasn't just rice!), broccoli 3/2 - tempeh burgers w/ spuds (all homemade) 3/3 - homemade pizza 3/4 - general tao's tofu, brown basmati,...

3/1 - coconut curry rice (had lots of garbanzo beans and veggies in it...wasn't just rice!), broccoli 3/2 - tempeh burgers w/ spuds (all homemade) 3/3 - homemade pizza 3/4 - general tao's tofu, brown basmati,...

Our blowing through our emergency fund had nothing to do with an initial splurge/reward/treat for finishing the fund. It had to do with HUGE personal issues that were totally unrelated, and I DID learn from them, for what it's worth ;)...

What are your plans?   When we finished our first 6-month emergency fund, we let ourselves splurge for pretty much an entire month. We kept it around $500 (what we would've put into savings)...but...sadly, eventually we blew...

3/1 -  no spend! 3/2 -  budget spending. $6 on fruit. We only have $6 to last us 9 days, but we have pretty much everything we need...so...yeah! Crossing fingers! 3/3 -  no spend! (okay, so the day isn't over...

3/1 - coconut curry rice (had lots of garbanzo beans and veggies in it...wasn't just rice!), broccoli 3/2 - tempeh burgers w/ spuds (all homemade) 3/3 - homemade pizza 3/4 - general tao's tofu, brown basmati, broccoli  3/5...

We're with ING, too.   1ish% is about as good as it gets right now...sorry. I'm SO missing the 5% interest days...