I feel like blogging but my thoughts really are not organized enough that I should be blogging. But I guess I won't let that stop me today. Nothing too exciting is going on I just feel like writing about random stuff.
First of all...we had a trip planned to Vegas this weekend for the Take Shape for Life regional conference but did you see my last blog post about paying bills and then my facebook status about saving money? We decided that even though we could make a tax deduction on our Vegas trip it would still be a lot to fork out (or most likely, put on the credit card) right now. It wouldn't be worth it to go this weekend. The latest flight we would be able to take on Friday night was only 50 minutes after I was suppose to get off work, stretching it a bit. Then we thought about flying out Saturday morning, staying in Vegas that night and then going home the cheaper way by renting a car and driving home Sunday. It would turn out to be something like $600+ just for one night....so when my Dad told me I should probably hold off this time I trusted his opinion. We are a bit bummed but probably more relieved to not be spending that money. Maybe next year!
What's been going on with us this week....
Saving money has been on my mind and I feel like I am making a mark! Some ways we have been cracking down:
We cancelled Netflix livestream (or whatever it's called) and just kept at the 7.99 "one movie after the other" deal, which hasn't been a sacrifice because we hardly used the wii livestream deal anyways.
We got rid of our unlimited data, unlimited texts, and got a plan with less minutes on our phones. It's been hard for me to not jump on the internet, but our cell phone bill should be under $100 now vs. like $160. Whew.
It's cooling down, so whatever days that I can, I open the windows instead of running the A/C. Night especially is perfect for that.
And I've been meal planning better! I went shopping and stocked up on as much as I could think of for better cooked from scratch/homemade dinners. It's worked great! This week I've made, Asian beef noodles (my version of mongolian bbq), chicken & rice dish, burritos, chicken veggie casserole, chicken croissants and plan to make baked potatoes tonight, skillet steak and corn tomorrow and other good meals this week. (It also helps that Cade takes the left overs to work for his lunch the next day.) So if I can keep this up until next Friday, from my last shopping trip, we will be averaging about $7 a day on food for 3 weeks. Pretty good I think! We can usually drop about $25-$30 on one meal at least once a week by going out and eating. I know that there has been some weeks where it wasn't just once a week that we went out and ate either. So this is a good improvement for us!
I had some great ideas from fb friends on saving money and we've already started utilizing them. We just put some "savings" money aside from Cade's last paycheck. We'll do the same for mine coming up next week. We want to learn about canning and I am trying to be better about collecting coupons. Other ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm not doing this because we NEED to be saving every penny, I just want to be better at being thrifty and be smarter with my money because I haven't been so much the past little while.
Our pooch is in heat again. Ah booo. We keep putting off her much needed vet day and now we are seeing the consequences again. Hey, we're on the same cycle. Neat. Ha. Except hers lasts longer than mine and I don't have to wear a diaper. Poor pooch. I get kind of embarrassed when I take her outside of our apartment complex to go potty and other dog owners have a confused look on their face as to why their dog is acting so aggressive all of a sudden. I know why. I just keep walking and try to make it around the other corner.
Hey, if anyone has a Pomeranian, we can make some cute Pomchi puppies, what do ya say? P.S. we can't tell Cade :)
Besides that, everything I think, is the same. Cade's working tons of hours at his job and pushing through school at night. I'm trying to be a little homemaker during the days and working my part-time job mostly evenings. All is good though. We are happy! Looking forward to my Mom and brother coming into town this weekend then Cade's family coming next! Next weekend we plan to go to an Endowment Session with the Hansen family at the Logan Temple to celebrate Cade's parent's sealing (it's kind of a special tradition). Anxious to see all of them. As for Cade's Mom and sister Autumn, I think they are more excited to see our dog. Haha. :) We sure miss our families being so close by! Excited to move back to Boise in about 5 months and be closer to them! We appreciate though the visiting both families have done to make living "far away" from them not so hard. We are pretty blessed to have such awesome families!
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