September wrap-up and off to Europe!

Literally running out the door to catch my flight, but here’s an update on progress for September!

How my money flows

I have been thinking tons and tons on how I want to manage my money via different bank accounts, and was trying to work up a diagram to better explain my plan. I also kept going back and forth on the best set up to use, and then today I stumbled across Money Under 30’s [...]

Interest as inspiration, and other random things

I’ve mentioned here before that I plan to move in with 2 friends of mine when my lease is up in November. I made that decision prior to finding out about the new job and great new salary, but still decided to go ahead with the move. Then today I’m chillaxing in my apartment, and [...]

Close call

Here I am, being more organized than ever before, and came dangerously close to missing two credit card payments. Ok, I say dangerously, but really they were due about 5 days off. But close enough that I could have easily forgotten. Especially considering I had the payments scheduled in my budget spreadsheet and money manager [...]

Prepping for Europe

This weekend is my big trip to see The Boy, and I couldn’t be happier, haven’t seen him in a couple months. I’m leaving Saturday and I’ve got a million things to do before then, including laundry, packing, etc. etc. I tend to overpack, also, so it’s going to be a process for me to [...]

Where to store the Emergency Fund

So I’ve been thinking about where to store my $1,000 Emergency Fund (when I finally have it that is!) Originally I’d planned to just dump into my ING account along with my Short-Term Savings/Freedom Fund and just know that $1,000 of that is strictly reserved. However, I’m thinking that I might as well make use [...]