$20K Update - Bingo TipsJanuary 24th, 2012 at 07:48 pmCurrent Balance $15,585.00 2012 Biggest Loser - Week 3 WeighinJanuary 24th, 2012 at 07:42 pmWeek Three February 2012 Mortgage PaymentJanuary 21st, 2012 at 10:51 amPosting this a little early cause I have some time to get it done right now. Buy your Forever Stamps!!January 21st, 2012 at 10:25 amIf you use any stamps at all, make sure you stock up today! Stamp prices go up tomorrow from .44 to .45 each. I don't use stamps very often since the majority of our bills are paid automatically with our Discover Card, but of course there occasionally is a rebate, card, or letter that I need a stamp for. The last time I bought stamps was 5/11/08. I bought 100 forever stamps (kept the receipt) for .41 and still have 14 of those left. So now I bought another 100 @ .44 each and those should last me about 4 years since we still have some of the last batch left. I know it's only pennies, but they all add up! 2011 Mortgage SummaryJanuary 21st, 2012 at 09:40 amWe got our annual mortgage statement from our mortgage company. 2011 TaxesJanuary 21st, 2012 at 09:32 amStillllllllllllll waiting for 2 more W2s (we had 4 this year), our HSA statement and our interest statements from our banks. Normally I would use what I already have to get started on Turbotax....but been so busy between work, OT, second job, and now I am also playing on a volleyball team....busy, busy, busy. So I think I will just wait till we get the forms and do it all at once. $20K UpdateJanuary 21st, 2012 at 09:17 amMoved another $500 from my at home Bingo money to ING Bingo money. Trying to get as far away from $14K as we can before we go to Vegas in March. 2012 Biggest Loser - Week 2 Weigh InJanuary 18th, 2012 at 07:27 pmWeek Two $20K UpdateJanuary 16th, 2012 at 09:32 amCurrent Balance $15,125.00 2012 Biggest Loser - Week 1 WeighInJanuary 15th, 2012 at 09:21 amWe started the Biggest Loser again for 2012. Only 4 people in it this time. $10 per person so the winner will get $40. It ends the week before I go to Vegas, so I am hoping to lose 10 more pounds (lost 7lbs in the last round) by the end. Then I would be down almost 20 lbs and that would feel great!! $20K Update - $15K!!January 14th, 2012 at 01:38 pmCurrent Balance $14,905.00 Company HSA DepositJanuary 10th, 2012 at 09:11 pmWe got our company HSA deposit today of $600! Yeah! Now our HSA is up to $6800! Super excited about that! Between our $125 deposit per paycheck and the incentives I get for entering my healthy eating and workout points we should get over $10K by the end of the year! Makes me feel so secure to know that even if somethihg horrible happened we would have enough in our HSA to pay for it. $20K UpdateJanuary 10th, 2012 at 08:28 pmLast night we went to the casino and came home $40 ahead, so I rounded it up to $50 and sent it to payback the retirement account. ING is now over $8K! Whoo hoo! I need to transfer another $500 from Bingo money to ING, but will wait a little while for that. Vegas Baby!January 8th, 2012 at 02:12 pmWe have been planning a big group trip to Vegas for about 2 yrs now for my little bros 21st Birthday and my husband's 30th Birthday. Finally it is almost here! We have about 15-20 people that are going. We will be going in March and we have been watching flights like crazy trying to get a good price. We were able to get them for $89.99 on the way there and $114.99 on the way back, which I am super happy with. The prices had been really high, sometimes over $200 each way, so I think we did good. DH just started getting paid for coaching track (which he won't actually start coaching until mid Feb) and we are going to use his first 2 track checks to pay for the flights so we don't have to take any out of our Vegas savings yet. $20K UpdateJanuary 8th, 2012 at 01:55 pmDH got $200 for Christmas, I would like to do something fun with that, but we only have $5 in our EF right now. So I stuck that money in the EF for now. Also got Bingo tips and Bingo payday. $20K Update - InterestJanuary 2nd, 2012 at 01:35 pmCurrent Balance $14,215.00 January 2012 Savings UpdateJanuary 2nd, 2012 at 01:24 pmJanuary 2012 Savings Update January 2012 Mortgage PaymentJanuary 2nd, 2012 at 09:35 amJanuary 2012 Mortgage Payment 2012 GoalsDecember 29th, 2011 at 12:20 pmDebt Moving funds aroundDecember 29th, 2011 at 11:46 amI had been keeping the Bingo money at home, but it is just too much to have in the house, so I renamed one of my ING account to Bingo Money and put $1000 of it in there. I also moved my Mortgage payoff account home since it was only $115.00, and stuck $10 more in there. $20K Update - Nice Bingo check!!December 29th, 2011 at 11:26 amI picked up a couple of shifts last week and it really helped out my bingo paycheck! I won on pulltabs?!December 24th, 2011 at 08:59 amSo I never play pulltabs....(if you don't have pulltabs where you live they are 3 little pieces of paper that are attached together, you buy then for $1 a piece and then you open them up to see if you won any money.....which I never play or win)...I think they are super boring and not fun at all. But last night DH and I were at the bar with some friends and a couple of the friends were really into pulltabs and were saying how one of the jars still had a lot of winners left in it, and not too many pulltabs left. They have a sign that says how many winners are left in there that are over $50 each. There were 35 winners left for over $50 each. It always looks like there aren't that many tickets left cause they are so little....but in reality there were probably like 1000 or more tickets still in the jar. So I bought into that and was playing with them...I bought $20, won nothing. I gave my husband $20 to go try, won nothing. Another friend said lets try together and if we win anything we will split it....so we each put in $40, won nothing. So by now I feel like am idiot but I am also drinking and thinking we HAVE to win cause the jar is so empty.....well my friend didn't want to play anymore, so I said to my husband, I am going to get $100 out of the ATM and I am going to buy 100 pulltabs, then I will quit. He said ok. So I bought the 100 pulltabs...I opened a $50 winner. I thought ok, now I will keep that and at least I got "some" of my money back. I kept opening them hoping to get another $50 or something. I got all the way down to my very LAST pulltab..ticket #1 $100, $100, $100 ticket #2 $100, $100, $100 ticket #3 $200, $100, $100.....equals $1000!!!!!! OMG!!!! I won $1000! There is only 1 $1000 winner in the entire jar of tickets and I am not sure how many tickets they start with.....maybe 5000 or 10000 or more? I was totally freaking out, I just couldn't believe it! Of course I was not up $1000 since I had already put in about $180, but I am so excited, I have never won anything that big at once before! I also gave our friend $100. But don't worry, I won't be addicted to pulltabs, I still think they are boring. I won the Biggest Loser!December 24th, 2011 at 08:31 amWe did the biggest loser again at work. We started in October and this last Tuesday was the last day. I won! I lost 7lbs and won $50! Normally I would do the updates on here, but just didn't get around to doing it. We are going to do another round in January so I will try to keep the weekly updates on here. Not sure what I am going to do with my $50 yet.... Good-bye $15K.....nice knowing you.....December 18th, 2011 at 05:16 pmCurrent Balance $15,000.00 Car repairs......sad!December 17th, 2011 at 12:04 pmMy heater had not been working in my car for a few weeks and my radio wasn't working again. I paid over $500 back in June to have my body control module replaced. Now I needed a new thermastat, intake manifold and water pump. $20K Update - $15K.....for a minute anyways!December 17th, 2011 at 11:51 amCurrent Balance $14,640.00 $20K Update - Bingo Tips!December 12th, 2011 at 07:54 pmCurrent Balance $14,550.00 CVS and Kohls ShoppingDecember 11th, 2011 at 06:29 pmKohls $20K Update - 2nd of the day :)December 11th, 2011 at 05:58 pmI got 2 checks in the mail, one for me and one for DH. Both checks were for $18.04 from Currency Conversion Fee Anitrust Litigation. I vaguely remember sending something in for this a looooooooong time ago.....the check is actually in my maiden name and we have been married for almost 5 years...so a looooong time ago.. So the total is $36.08, I rounded up to $40 and put it in the Vegas savings account. We thought we had enough for our trip, but it looks like the flights are going to cost us a lot more then they had in the past, so we need to put some more in there before we go in March. Crazy amounts of OTDecember 11th, 2011 at 11:35 amIt seems I forgot to mention it on here, but my work has been giving crazy amounts of overtime for about 5 weeks now. We are able to work up to 10 OT hours a week. This is pretty close to impossible due to the hours that we are open, and me having Bingo as well....but I have been putting in about 5-7 hrs a week in OT for the last several weeks. My job usually has occasional OT, but this amount is unheard of. I asked my boss how long she thought we would have this OT and she said we can expect to be offered 10 hrs per week through March!! OMG! The money is nice, but I am definitely starting to feel burned out. Hopefully I can find a happy balance between working some OT and not going insane...lol. I have the whole week off after Christmas, so they should help me recharge.
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I am 2.4lbs away from getting under the next 10lb mark....I would LOVE to make it under that by next weeks weigh in. So gonna try super hard. I have volleyball tomorrow night and really busy the rest of the week, but should be able to go to the gym Saturday afternoon (but I work 9 hours at bingo that night...so we will see if I have enough energy) but for sure will be able to go Sunday and get a good workout in.
Nice Christmas gift huh! $900 later my heat and radio are working....but I am going to have to get a new radio because there is something wrong with this one and it keeps sucking my battery and now the CD player is not working...so frustrating! So we just got to $15K, but it will be very short lived due to Christmas and this massive car repair. Why can't we get away from 14K! It's baffling!