Plugging Away

Things are going well so far. I've been entering everything I spend into my excel sheet.

I took out my second set of "envelope money" with this paycheck :) Insurance, haircut...expenses like that. I'm putting those away in envelopes each month. No, it doesn't accumulate interest that way, but I also won't be tempted to withdraw the money or transfer it online. Sure, I could grab the envelope and spend the cash, but for some reason I'm less likely to do that. Go figure.

I've passed the $20 mark on Cashcrate! I'm excited about that. Also, I got one referral each on ebates.com and revolution money exchange.

I really like ebates.com so far. The money only comes every 3 months, but they have a ton of stores to get cash back from, and it's for stuff I already buy (and it's budgeted for!). I'm at $18.00 so far on ebates for my signups and one purchase.

Can't wait to make my total snowflakes list for May! In case you were wondering, my $20 snowflake from April went to my Bank of America credit card (total payment=$455) :) I'll update those totals on the side soon.

Waiting for my next paycheck

This week's paycheck is when I'll really see how well my budget is going to work. And how many snowflakes I'll have to contribute. I'm excited, not good with waiting.

I'm also going to get back into the Walgreens deals that I've done for the past 2 years. I've been slacking on cutting my coupons. But even without newspaper coupons they have great deals, as evidenced by the post over at Thrifty Mama and I Want a Home Now. That Crest deal sounds awesome!

My $7000 check to Bank of America finally cashed so I can update my totals on the side.

Oh, and cashcrate is up to $11.25! So I'll have something from them to put toward debt probably by the middle of June when the check comes. :-D

Starting May off right....

With hopefully some extra money making opportunities.

I made about $170 on Dealbarbiepays.com last October when I was job hunting, so I think I'm going to start that up again! I made $136 then another $40 or so because they were running a contest at the time. In fact they're running several for the month of May. So if you're interested check out my link :)




Also found Cashcrate through another blog two days ago. And it's as EASY as they said it would be. Very straight forward site with a lot of free signups and surveys. And the best part is they have two daily surveys you can take every 24 hours that are worth $0.80 each. So even if I only do the surveys each day, I should make $48.00. Pretty good deal!
So far, I've done a few of the offers and I have $5.10 earned and another $5.20 pending. Yay!

The first survey was pretty interesting, it actually had me watch an episode on ABC.com.

So, hey if you're interested, click my link below!

That's about all the money stuff I have for now.