DH got a check for $10.76 back from the school for buying school supplies, so I transferred $15 to the EF.

Current Balance $13,500.00
+$15.00 to EF
New Balance $13,515.00

ING $9385.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $600.00
HSBC $3530.00
Total = $13,515.00

I added $35 to the EF just to get my total to a nice even number.

Current Balance $13,465.00
+$35.00 to EF
New Balance $13,500.00

ING $9370.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $600.00
HSBC $3530.00
Total = $13,500.00

Current Balance $13,230.00
+$100.00 to Anniversary Cruise
+$25.00 to EF
+$25.00 to Home Improvements
+$85.00 to Retirement Hold Account
New Balance $13,465.00

ING $9335.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $600.00
HSBC $3530.00
Total = $13,465.00

This will probably have to go down temporarily to cover this mortgage fiasco, but we will see. Either way it would only be temporary.

We decided what to do with the last $500 from the trip
$200 to Super Secret Stash
$200 to Lawn Mower/Vacuum Savings
$100 for DH to play with

Current Balance $13,030.00
+$200.00 to Lawn Mower/Vacuum Savings
New Balance $13,230.00

ING $9200.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $600.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $13,230.00

We are not tracking the Super Secret Stash on here as part of savings, but it is up to $1000 so that is awesome!

We are back from Deadwood and had a great time! It was super fun and I am sad that it is over already. We ended up bringing home $1500! YEAH! And that is all extra money for savings! We are still deciding what to do with all of it, but I have $1000 of it already transferred to savings.
We almost always play penny games. We had 3 awesome wins. $270 on Lord of the Rings betting $1.20 a spin, $300 on The Big Money Show betting .60 a spin, and $436 on Fortunes of the Caribbean betting .60 a spin.
I sent $750 to our "New Car" savings to meet the goal for the year, then sent $250 to the EF, which is the next goal on the list. So $500 left to decide on. I will talk to DH tomorrow and decide what to do with that.

Current Balance $12,000.00
+$750.00 to New Car from casino win
+$250.00 to EF from casino win
+$30.00 Even Out Amount
New Balance $13,030.00

ING $9200.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $400.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $13,030.00

Wow, so we just got to $12K a week ago and now we are already over $13K, plus ING accounts hit $9K!
P A R T Y !
Plus we still have $800 in the Super Secret Stash and $500 to decide on from Deadwood. We are really rolling towards the $20K goal!

Current Balance $12,080.00
-$112.00 to Roth IRA
+$7.00 Even Out Amount
+$25.00 To keep above $12K
New Balance $12,000.00

ING $8170.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $400.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $12,000.00

One of my auto deposits to my ROTH IRA came out today and took us under $12K....awww! Don't want that to happen, so I made a random deposit just to keep it at the $12K mark.

Current Balance $11,890.00
+$20.00 to New Car Fund
+$85.00 to Retirement Hold Account
+$6.19 ING Interest
+$28.81 Even Out Amounts
+$50.00 Detention Money - to Lawnmower fund
New Balance $12,080.00

ING $8250.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $400.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $12,080.00

Whoo hoo! $12K! Feels great to get past the next $K mark! Also am happy cause even if we had to take some out of savings for something we would hopefully be able to stay over $10K now since we have a little wiggle room.

I have a Super Secret Stash (SSS) of cash. It started with just keeping a $5 here, a $10 here....then I added some $20's, some of DH's Christmas money and now we have $500 in the SSS. I didn't want this money to have to have any label. It's not savings, it's not to go on the mortgage, make a large purchase, or go on a trip....I just want it there for if we want to buy/do something we would have money that was unaccounted for so it would not come out of savings.
Last night DH and I went to the casino. We were trying to hold off till we go to Deadwood in a few weeks. But we both had a long week and thought it would be fun to go chill out for awhile. So we took some money out of the SSS and went up, and the very first game we played we put in $10, we were betting .50 cents and hit $80! Whoo hoo! The night kept going like that and we ended up coming home $380 ahead plus a bucket of change! Yeah! So I am putting $100 into the ING New Car Fund, putting the change towards the mortgage and putting the remaining $280 back in the Super Secret Stash! SSS is now at $780.00!


Current Balance $11,790.00
+$100.00 Casino Win - To New Car Fund
New Balance $11,890.00

ING $8110.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $11,890.00

Next week we should hit $12K! So excited!

Current Balance $11,815.00
-$28.00 to Roth IRA
+$3.00 Even Out Amount
New Balance $11,790.00

ING $8010.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $11,790.00

Current Balance $11,730.00
+$85.00 Retirement Hold account
New Balance $11,815.00

ING $8035.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $11,815.00

Yeah, my ING accounts are over $8K!

DH did not get the detention pay on this paycheck, so no extra to put in yet, but next paycheck he should have at least $100 in detention pay. Half of that will be for him for "fun" money and half will go into the lawn mower/vacuum fund.

Current Balance $11,580.00
+$100.00 to Anniversary Cruise
+$25.00 to New Car Fund
+$25.00 to Home Improvement Fund
New Balance $11,730.00

ING $7950.00
Lawn Mower/Vacuum(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3430.00
Total = $11,730.00

DH gets paid on 2/15. If he gets paid for his detention hours on this paycheck I will be able to put some more into the lawn mower/vacuum fund.

Feeling restless.....

Current Balance $11,260.00
+$7.16 ING January Interest
+$42.84 Even Out Amount
+$285.00 State Tax Return + Anticipation of Fed Return
+$85.00 to Retirement Hold Account
-$112.00 to Roth IRA
+$12.00 Even Out Amount
New Balance $11,580.00

ING $7900.00
Lawn Mower(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3330.00
Total = $11,580.00

Slowly moving towards the next $1K mark. $12K is in my sites and I am hoping to get over that mark in March. Probably will only be close to it by the end of this month if all goes well.

Just a little tiny update:

Current Balance $11,280.00
-$28.00 to Retirement Hold Account
+$8.00 even out Amount
New Balance $11,260.00

ING $7580.00
Lawn Mower(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3330.00
Total = $11,260.00

Current Balance $11,255.00
+$15.00 to Lawn Mower Fund
+$10.00 to ING
New Balance $11,280.00

ING $7600.00
Lawn Mower(cash) $350.00
HSBC $3330.00
Total = $11,280.00

It was just bugging me that the lawn mower fund which is in cash right now was at $335 which is a weird number, so I stuck $15 in the jar where I have it to get it to a even number - Hey every penny counts right?!

Ok - then after I posted this I realized that ING was $10 away from the next $100 mark, so I stuck another $10 in there too. UP!

Current Balance $11,815.00
-$750.00 to pay off 0% King Mattress Loan
+$5.00 Rebate from Jim Beam
+$100.00 Rebate from Menards
+$85.00 to Retirement Hold Account
New Balance $11,255.00

ING $7590.00
Lawn Mower(cash) $335.00
HSBC $3330.00
Total = $11,255.00

Current Balance $11,645.00
+$15.00 to New Car
+$25.00 to New Car
+$25.00 to Home Improvements
+$100.00 to Anniversary Cruise
+$5.00 HSBC Interest
New Balance $11,815.00

ING $8250.00
Lawn Mower(cash) $235.00
HSBC $3330.00
Total = $11,815.00

Sooo close to $12K! But this week we have to pay off our 0% loan for our King Mattress so will be taking out $750.00. We also have a humungous credit card bill for this month because of major overspending, Christmas etc. So I am going to try very hard to not take any more out of savings other then for the mattress, but it is going to be close. Really want to stay about $11K.

Current Balance $11,660.00
-$112.00 to ROTH IRA
+$12.00 Even Out Amounts
+$85.00 Retirement Hold Account
New Balance $11,645.00

ING $8185.00
Lawn Mower(cash) $235.00
HSBC $3225.00
Total = $11,645.00

Current Balance $11,610.00
+$7.23 December ING Interest
+$42.77 Even Out Amount
New Balance $11,660.00

$8200.00 ING
$3225.00 HSBC
$235.00 Lawn Mower Savings (cash)
$11,660.00 Total

Not able to put much extra in savings right now as we seriously overspent in Decemeber. We bought a new TV for out basement, got tickets to see Gabriel Iglesias, booked our hotel for Deadwood in March, Christmas presents, personal trainer....on and on and on. We were very bad. So that bill is due at the end of January and until that is paid it will be slooooowwww on the savings deposits.

Current Balance $11,625.00
-$28.00 to Roth IRA
+$13.00 Even Out Amount
New Balance $11,610.00

I posted yesterday that DH had gotten a check for $250 from his great grandma for Christmas. He decided how to break it up:

$50.00 for him to spend
$50.00 for me to spend
$50.00 for the lawn mower fund
$100.00 to save for our Deadwood trip in March

I haven't decided what to do with my $50 yet.

So here is the update:
Current Balance $11,500.00
+$50.00 to lawn mower fund
+$75.00 to retirement hold account from paycheck
New Balance $11,625.00

ING $8165
HSBC $3225
Lawn Mower Fund $235
= $11,625.00

We went to the casino last night and after about 7 hours of gambling came out about $240.00 ahead! YEAH! I usually only pay penny machines so was really excited. I was betting .60 cents and won $60, and then a few minutes later was betting .30 cents and won $70! The rest of the time was $5 - $10 wins added up. So gave the $40 to DH and put the $200 into savings, along with $15 extra to even things out.

Current Balance $11,285.00
+$150.00 to EF from casino win
+$50.00 to New Car account from casino win
+$15.00 Even out amount to EF
New Balance $11,500.00

Current Balance $11,235.00
+$25.00 to New Car Fund
+$25.00 to Home Maintenance Account
New Balance $11,285.00

Current Balance $11,135.00
+$100.00 Anniversary Cruise Deposit
New Balance $11,235.00

Current Balance $10,850.00
+$200.00 to EF from Bonus Check
+$75.00 to Retirement hold account
+$10.00 to New Car Account
New Balance $11,135.00

Got my 3rd quarter bonus. It was about $860, about $500 after taxes and my 401K were taken out. Put $200 to savings and the rest to checking to help with Christmas and all of the fuel costs from going out of state 4 weekends in a row.
Very excited to be over $11K!

Current Balance $10,775.00
-$112.00 to Roth IRA
+$2.00 Even out Amount
+$185.00 Lawn Mower Fund (cash)
New Balance $10,850.00

Current Balance $10,735.00
+$6.35 ING Interest
+$33.65 Even Out Amount
New Balance $10,775.00

Current Balance $10,760.00
-$28.00 to ROTH IRA
+$3.00 Even Out Amount
New Balance $10,735.00

Current Balance $10,660.00
+$75.00 to Retirement hold account
+$25.00 Home Maintenance
New Balance $10,760.00

Current Balance $10,585.00
+$50.00 to New Car Account
+$25.00 Home Maintenance
New Balance $10,660.00

Current Balance $10,455.00
+$100.00 Anniversary Cruise Account
+$40.00 Just cause
New Balance $10,585.00