Sabrina’s Money Madness

I’ve been saving for a few months now but I need to make sure I’m on track. I want to have a 6 month emergency fund and I want to start saving for a house at the same time. Both of these goals are going to require a nice chunk of change. I usually update […]

I started saving money to buy a house. I’m on a 3 year plan that will hopefully end with me making a down payment and paying closing costs. Right now I’m saving very little and as my bills are paid off, that money is getting redirected to my savings. Now that I’ve made this a […]

In one of my previous posts, I talked about having new neighbors which I’m not thrilled about. That’s really only one factor though. I’m just ready to get started on the path to home ownership. In the past I wasn’t really ready but I feel that now I am.
Starting in the new year, I’ll start […]

I just talked about how much I love my piggy banks. I save all of my change in them and challenge myself to fill up each and every one. Once they’re full, I transfer most of the change into my largest pig and I spend the rest. I’m going to continue that for this year […]

This next semester is my final semester. After I’m done with school, I’m supposed to move. However since I’m using the majority of my savings to pay for school, I won’t have a lot of cash to move with. I don’t even remotely know how I’m going to be able to save money once school […]

On the GPT site that I used to frequent, I had accumulated some points that I needed to turn in. The site was supposed to close so all points had to be redeemed by the end of August.
I ordered a gift card and a bank. I got them both yesterday. The bank is yellow and […]

I had a decent month of May. My goal is $175-200 per month and I made it again. I plan on increasing the amount I expect to make starting in July.
Blogging income - $169.36
Survey income - $25
Total May online income - $194.36
 $70 is going into savings, $25 is going to my vacation club, $25 is […]

I love to read. I always have ever since I was a child. It really doesn’t matter what kind of book or magazine it is, as long as it’s compelling and holds my interest.
 I love personal finance magazines. Reading through them I always see articles that I love and articles that I don’t like as […]

I update my net-worth quarterly. I know a lot of people do it monthly, but I don’t feel like schlepping all of that paperwork out every month. I don’t have a lot of assets but it’s just a pain trying to add all of that stuff up.
Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good […]

I make money from various on-line survey sites. The money I make from each site has a purpose. Money from one site will go into my vacation club until I reach $100, then all the extra money will go into my stock fund. Right now I have $25 in my vacation club so I have […]

I thought I had some serious work to do to fund my emergency fund. But I don’t. I’m not fully funded with 6 months worth of expenses, but I do have 3 months worth.
 I don’t make bupkus. So when you multiply 3 x bupkus it’s not a very large number. I’m going to continue to […]

And the numbers are dismal. I need to up my savings. I’m slowing building them back up but with school, I dip into them fairly often. I know I will add an extra $500 to my savings by the end of the year. Anything over that will probably go towards tuition.
 I do have 3 months […]