April Showers of Savings the sequel - 2015 Frugal Chatter

[Frugalbigmama]

Productive day so far for me! Now to keep going. Went to a bank I have stuff at but don't use daily and cleaned up some of the accounts etc. Cashed cheque DS received for his birthday and put $100 in his account and took the rest that he owed me Took my "spend how I want" cash out and will spend it wisely lol

[coupon girl]

wow its 5 degrees and sunny out hubby started to rip out our deck -so I was helping take the nails out of the boards -a lot of work
-decided not to go out today -my go out on Thursday
-hung some of hubby's shirts on the line and a few of mine -yipeee its spring finally

[jasperandchar]

Productive day so far for me! Now to keep going. Went to a bank I have stuff at but don't use daily and cleaned up some of the accounts etc. Cashed cheque DS received for his birthday and put $100 in his account and took the rest that he owed me Took my "spend how I want" cash out and will spend it wisely lol

Great job!

[jasperandchar]

Inquiring Minds Want to Know!!!

What was your biggest accomplishment in March???? anything goes

[jasperandchar]

@SassyAshley hope all is going well, my dear

[saundyl]

Inquiring Minds Want to Know!!!

What was your biggest accomplishment in March???? anything goes

My March accomplishment was getting 1 more pc job above my 2 pcs goal plus refurbishing and selling a pc. The extra income enabled a few purchases we shouldnt have made other wise but were "needed" luxuries to stop a couple fights.

[lizzie bargain]

I guess my biggest accomplishment of March was arranging for us to do a house exchange on Vancouver Island this summer-pretty economical way to travel with no hotel, flights, minimal eating out etc.

[saundyl]

Goals for this month - 2 more pcs for computer work. Really enjoying the extra cash.

Get some of the stuff from the shed sorted once the snow has gone down a bit more.

I'm thinking April will be a impulse splurge free month (I'm booked for a massage on the 11th so I cant say an entirely splurge free month - however i will try to submit that to my insurance)

Finish the blanket for bfs moms and finish one for a college's new baby.

I'm truly not sure how i feel today. Cant decide between mad or happy.

I checked my credit card online this morning and discovered a charge for Khols' and for Sweet Frog - neither of which I have ever set foot in or shopped at online. In fact Sweet Frog i really have no clue what it is. SO I spent half an hour on the phone reporting credit card fraud. Now my card is frozen and I have to get a replacement. I'm not very happy about this note.

On the other side - I've already gotten a booking for 1 PC service call for tonight. (Might have to up my goal after easter week) As well I submitted a resume for a Casual/pt Bookkeeping job as a second job with NFTI (Northern Farm Training Institute) and got a response back within 10 minutes asking me for an interview - they are thrilled with my experience both in book keeping AND that i grew up/worked on a farm in the past.

I do need to curb some of my/our extra spending. Last month we splurged a bit with income tax a(i put a hefty chunk of mine into saving) and my extra work i was doing. We picked up our Kitchen aid Accessory pack on sale for $159.99 less my $25 Giftcard and hopefully a $20 rebate. A pack of 2 ottomans with storage in for the living room (95 dollars less the $30 for selling the larger one with no storage)

We also picked up an Xbox for our house for the boys with 19 games for $200 - selling any games they have double of already and any they do not want (Two have been sold so the cost of the system is down to $180). profits on that will recoup some of the expense. The Xbox itself was purchased because I'm tired of he boys complaining about having to pack up the current one to take back and forth to their moms and our place. Also getting tired oif hearing how moving it around like that makes it freeze. No moving no reason for those 2 complaints.

[Granger]

Biggest accomplishment in March - Hosting 20 people for daughter's birthday and making them dinner, surviving the week of stomach flu that hit a few days later and lasted one week

Came home to freebies (Thanks mom!!!) - package of size 1 Pampers, new Thyme maternity top

[MrsSunshine]

Biggest accomplishment, was successfully enrolling myself in a 'improvement' workshop offered by a local agency.
Truly discovering who i am and what I can do.
it's def. made me rethink alof of things in my life. Onward and upward

[Natalka]

Inquiring Minds Want to Know!!!

What was your biggest accomplishment in March???? anything goes

Honestly, just getting through March!

[Angela273]

Dh has always done our taxes paper copy. This year he has decided to buy a program and do it with that. We want a program where you don't have to finish it all in one sitting and where you can review it all before submitting. I'd like some recommendations please, with reasons for your recommendations.
Thanks

[jasperandchar]

@saundyl scary that your dealing with credit card fraud, any idea how it started or where. Kids and there electronics/game systems....sigh don't even get me started, we have an egg timer they use to switch off turns. Good luck with the interview, I can say you are definitely not lazy, very hard worker and very committed to your financial situations.

[lizzie bargain]

Angela-my husband uses Turbo Tax and likes it although I think there are some free online ones available too.

[jasperandchar]

Our biggest accomplishment for March was doing all the renos in Logan's new room on budget and him finally moving in. Also another accomplishment (lol) is finding a way to cook/prepare the moose steak (that's huge) as it's quite strong in taste and now everyone likes it.