Sabrina’s Money Madness

The month of April is when I get 3 paychecks. I love months like this. I save over half of my paycheck and spend the rest. The part that I save is for my vacation that I want to take next year. This is the paycheck that I stock up on household essentials. I need […]

One of my friends/coworkers was on maternity leave. Today was her first day back after almost 4 months. She took almost the entire amount of time that she was eligible to take. Now our lunch group is back up to 4 persons.
Now she has to get back into the swing of things.

I can’t wait until school is over for the semester. I only have 1 month and that includes finals. I can’t really think or concentrate on anything else because I’m so stressed with school. I think because this is my last semester that I’m more anxious than at any other time. This would be the […]

Not doing a swan dive, but I’m going to tip-toe around the edge of the stock market. I’m going to start slowly reinvesting money to my stock accounts. I never stopped contributing to my 401k but I also don’t invest as much as I should be. My raise was really low this year so I […]

Ugh I really hate the meetings we have. We usually only have them on Friday but this week we had an extra meeting. The new guy wasn’t invited to today’s meeting but he’ll be expected to be at the weekly meeting.
The meetings are totally boring. We talk about the same thing every week. We also […]

My friend from my old job started today. It’s fun because we’re cool so now I have someone new to talk to. It doesn’t hurt that he’s funny as heck. So I know we’ll sit there and crack jokes all day.
Work stinks so I may as well amuse myself the best way I can.

Let me tell you, it feels great! I made my last payment on Wednesday morning. It’s not only the last payment for this semester, it’s my last payment period. Forever. Ok well maybe not forever but this degree that I’m currently working on is paid for.
Now all I have to do is pass both of […]

I saw a pair of shoes that I really like. Actually I saw 2 places. One is a pair of low-heeled pumps. The other pair are boots. I really want to order them while they’re on sale but I need to go to the store first and try on a couple pairs of the designers […]

I thought I was through with this but I guess not. My last tuition payment is due today. I did make a small payment yesterday but I still have a nice size balance. I don’t have the money to pay the balance today and I don’t get paid until Thursday.
Soooo what to do? I’m gonna pay […]

Of course that meant I spent more money than I wanted to. The damage wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be though. I bought more soda (diet), some bananas and some 100 calorie cookies. I didn’t expect the cookies to be that good but I was pleasantly suprised. They’re individually packaged so I […]

Good snacks meaning healthy stuff. I do have some fruit, raisins and yogurt left but I ran out of granola bars and pretzels. I’m just afraid that I’m going to go to our work-place convenience store and buy chips or donuts. I’m trying to let my weight loss pills work their magic. I am exercising too […]

I wasn’t expecting a big raise and I sure didn’t get one! It wasn’t a surprise though. I work in banking and they had already told us that the 2009 raises would be significantly lower than 2008. I wanted to increase my 401k by 1% this year but once I saw that my raise barely […]