Weekly Grocery Shopping Trip-10/31

I forgot to write a post about my grocery-shopping trip last week. So I’m going to write and post this as if I had written it last week.
Before I went to the store I stopped and got $40 dollars out of the bank. I had hoped only to spend that much at the store total. [...]

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It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

Has anyone seen that movie being played this year on tv? I haven’t, and I’ve been waiting for it. I had to go the clubhouse and check it out cause I wanted to watch it so badly.
Okay so I ended up getting the new printer, I asked enough people who believed it was time to [...]

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The Pains of Changing

I hate when I have to replace things.
For instance I have that awesome all in one printer I got a couple of years ago at the university dorm sale thing, you know where everything left in the dorm rooms is put into this huge room and they sale for .50 cents. At first it didn’t [...]

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Some Habits are Hard to Break!

Okay so yeah I know I did this whole post about how I was going to basically tighten my purse strings and what do I do…go and spend money. I know I know…so what I spend?
Well, I didn’t want to cook tonight and I had said once I get some money the first thing I’m [...]

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PAYDAY!

Oh yeah, I just checked my account and I just got paid! I was down to my very last $6. Let me tell you how happy I am to have some money up in there. Woot! I applied for another savings account to be added on to my other account that way I can keep [...]

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Financial Aid You are the Bane of My Existence!

Yeah that’s right I said…for some random reason I had a $15 balance on my account that caused it to take that money out of my stipend money. $15 dollars might not seem a lot but when you are on a tight budget that’s a lot of money to be throwing away. Of course I call [...]

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I’m still off…

This morning I woke up to loud snoring in my ear. My brother stayed the weekend and he doesn’t know how to share. I was on the edge of my own bed. Well i got up and took a look at my calendar and start to have a panic attack because there’s a project due [...]

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I think I’m getting sick

Or rather my friend’s car is making me sick, like I’ve noticed every time I ride in her car I get dizzy, a headache, and sick to my stomach. Her car is rather dirty…some might say filthy. She hasn’t really cleaned it out…since she got it…a couple of years of ago. But I’m not sure [...]

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I’m not bad at money management

So I ‘ve been wondering how I could have mismanaged my money so badly. I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to handle being on my own. And then I got an email from the lady in charged of the sub-commitee of the scholarship I got. Well it turns out I never [...]

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My Spending Plan

Okay this is the budget I made before I moved in. I did the estimates based on research I did through reading and asking others.
Rent: $875/month (includes rent, electric, water, trash, cable, and washer & dryer rental)
Internet: $45/month
Cellphone: $56/month
Food: $200/month ($50 a week)
Household goods: $80/month
Transportation Cost: $10/month
Savings: $100/month
Debt repayment: $50/month
Leaving me with $84 dollars of [...]

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