Well, I must say that I did it! By the skin of my teeth, I completed all the goals I had set out for January. Well, I could have had more faith and been a little less whiny and a little more grateful. Still working on that one.
This month's goals are very similar. It is going to be a little harder as the month is shorter (not that I am complaining) and I have more bills. So, I am going to have to be even more careful where any extra money goes.
There are extra bills in February that occur once a year and I can't get out of them along with a new payment on hub's hearing aids that throws a wrinkle into the mix. But let's see what Kim can do when she puts her mind to it.
1. I always send my aunt $500.00 on her birthday Feb.11th to help pay her house taxes. Sissie sends her the same amount at Christmas. This was our father's last request of us, to take care of his sister and keep her in her home. She has very little to live on and we just make sure she has what she needs.
2. The computer protection is due $65.90
3. the car goes in for oil /rotation $100
4. hub's hearing aid payment $500.00
5. Valentine's Day and daughters and grandson's birthday?
So how am I going to accomplish this?
1. continue the pantry/freezer challenge (this saved about $200.00 last month)
2. sew, sew, sew
3. try and cash flow some bills and gifts from shop
4. do all of my usual savings' strategies.
Scary but I think I can do it.
By the way the shop is crazy busy again. Just like that! I have had at least 10 people here so far today. Money ought to start coming in pretty regularly. Now I just have to do the work. Yeah, that part. But let me tell you I am excited and grateful.
Sissie and I email every day and her mornings email stated that she has to go into Sluggy's room every day and make sure it is pristine as her Husband likes to use it as an overflow of his crap. I had to question this? Not the overflow part but the fact that Sluggy has a room at Sissie's house, and I don't. Just sayin.
Do you think this is fair? After all I shared a womb with this person A WOMB and I don't get a ROOM.
I have a big pot of red kidney beans soaking and I am going to go in and get a chili started and then start sewing.
We got a call last night right when Kelsa was getting picked up to get down to the food bank as the they had a truck coming in and needed pallets of food boxes done up so the trucker could take off. It was two hours of fast furious work, and we were understaffed, so that made it all the more exquisite, I use that word lightly. I am a little sore today, my back is twingey.
DO any of you have goals for February? If so what kind? Are they financial?
Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.
Kim
