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2 no spenders & snowflakes

January 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 am

Sunday & Monday were both no spenders. Today I spent about 1.10 for snax at work. We moved offices & I had taken all my work snacks home. I've learned my lesson and I have stuff to bring to the office tomorrow.

Today I received my first Cashcrate check... for $31.65. I already have over $19.00 accumulated for this month. ALl these funds go straight to my studnet loan.

I'm waiting for my electic/gas bill to show up. Any extra is going straight to my student loan as well.

I also have been paying ahead on my car insurance (there are 8 payments a year. If you pay more than the minimum (as low as $1.00), there's no charge for spreading the payments out. If you pay just the minimum, then they charge $4.00/mo for the 'payment plan'. So my last payment is next month and its $10.66 lower than the budgeted amount. So that'll be going to the student loan as well.

I'm also planning to put some stuff up for sale on craigslist. I have some chair cushions, a TI-83 calculator, a finance calculator, messenger bags, a lamp, an old wireless router and an old stereo.

Its my goal to have that stuff up for sale in two weeks. I'll put any funds from those sales to the student loan.

I am waiting on some tax info, but I can't wait to do my taxes. Because this is my first full year in the house, I'm expecting a bit of a refund. Normally, I break even, but with the mortgage interest deduction, I should get some $ back. All of which go to the student loan.

Don't forget, my goal is to pay off the loan by the end of the year.

Posted in goals | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “2 no spenders & snowflakes”

  1. denisentexas Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at 01:07 am 1201050420
    1201050420

    Are those cashcrate offers free or do you have to register, take some long survey that's simply saying no to 200 offers or what? I've tried so many of them and signed up for cashcrate but haven't had luck with it.

  2. HouseHopeful Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at 01:26 am 1201051571
    1201051571

    Some of the options are for free trials, which are easy to cancel. Some are those long surveys. I mostly do the trial offers. But the trick with the long survey is after the original offer, they keep doing other offers in the survey. You can stop once you do the first part of the offer. And a good tip is that I always give an email address designed just for these offers, not my regular email address.

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