Money Matters Week 34

[penguin129]

How are things going mid month?

Best purchase/s made?

Impulse purchase/s?

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month?

Anything else?

GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc?

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Things are going well. H got a job and will be starting in a week, so I have stopped my spending freeze.

Best purchase- clothes for myself and took myself to a movie.

Impulse buy-DS said he wanted to go fishing so I got poles and got DD some toddler style roller skates. I was going to go today, but we went to the beach instead. So maybe next Sunday.



I plan to buy a Couple seasons of a TV series I like as my reward for getting through his job loss.

I get my TV through antenna and Netflix.

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How are things going mid month? Things are going ok.

Best purchase/s made? Went to a movie and grabbed dessert after with my best friend. It's been too long since we've hanged out without kids.

Impulse purchase/s? We are trying to cut back on impulse purchases and putting the money into a vacation fund.

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month? I need to buy a birthday present for my sister and for DH's cousin.

Anything else? We put a down payment at a travel agency for a trip for our 10 year anniversary in May. We are going to Europe

GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc? We have basic cable and Netflix.

[penguin129]

Things are ok. We have some things coming up this week I wish would be after our next pay, but we can still handle it.

The best thing I bought this week was a pair of gray elephant decals for over DD2's crib.

The candy I bought was on impulse/to use to get DD2 to kick when I haven't felt her. At $1 it really isn't that bad of a choice though.

My mil's birthday is today, but we most likely aren't celebrating until the weekend. We will get her a card and maybe a picture or flowers. We have another party to go to on Saturday I just found out about yesterday. We think H has a sinus infection so the doctor co-pay and whatever medicine he needs for that.

We have basic basic cable and Netflix.

[sanibel21]

How are things going mid month?
Pretty over our normal, but it was all planned or necessary

Best purchase/s made?
A night away in the city, with good meals

Impulse purchase/s?
Ummm, the not planned but necessary purchases lately have been GI meds and related stuff for both DD and I. That stuff adds up!
And then we keep random bills from the ob for parts of labs and visits. Insurance and deductibles suck.

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month?
Nope

Anything else?
Don't think so.


GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc?
We have cable with DVR. DH usually calls when the "intro promo" is up and talk about cancelling and they send him to the retention department and give him somewhat of another deal.

[mrsmuq]

Aug 21, 2016 23:45:41 GMT -5 @auri said:

How are things going mid month? Things are going ok.

Best purchase/s made? Went to a movie and grabbed dessert after with my best friend. It's been too long since we've hanged out without kids.

Impulse purchase/s? We are trying to cut back on impulse purchases and putting the money into a vacation fund.

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month? I need to buy a birthday present for my sister and for DH's cousin.

Anything else? We put a down payment at a travel agency for a trip for our 10 year anniversary in May. We are going to Europe

GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc? We have basic cable and Netflix.

Oooooo... where in Europe? (DH and I are still 3 years away from the big 10 year anniversary trip, but it's fun imagikning where we would go hehe)

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Aug 22, 2016 15:56:57 GMT -5 mrsmuq said:

Aug 21, 2016 23:45:41 GMT -5 @auri said:

How are things going mid month? Things are going ok.

Best purchase/s made? Went to a movie and grabbed dessert after with my best friend. It's been too long since we've hanged out without kids.

Impulse purchase/s? We are trying to cut back on impulse purchases and putting the money into a vacation fund.

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month? I need to buy a birthday present for my sister and for DH's cousin.

Anything else? We put a down payment at a travel agency for a trip for our 10 year anniversary in May. We are going to Europe

GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc? We have basic cable and Netflix.

Oooooo... where in Europe? (DH and I are still 3 years away from the big 10 year anniversary trip, but it's fun imagikning where we would go hehe)

We're going to Edinburgh, London, and Paris. We figured that we haven't really been on any vacations since our honeymoon, so we could splurge a little.

[namastebiotches]

How are things going mid month?
Meh. August is usually our splurge month with DS' bday.

Best purchase/s made?
Probably the star wars buildabears for DS we got this weekend. He's been obsessed & so cute with them.

Impulse purchase/s?
The buildabears. We were going to a town about half hour away for a touchatruck event & I looked up the mall over there. Turns out they had a BAB so figured instead of wasting gas & coming back, do an early surprise for ds. He was thrilled.

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month?
A bike for his bday & a few other bday things. Luckily we're not having a big shindig this year so it'll be just the 3 of us. We'll probably go somewhere for it. Just now sure where yet.

Anything else?
August would have definitely gone a bit better if we didn't make the trip to our parents' area which made us do a day trip to Pittsburgh. Lol oh well, it was a good time

GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc?
We have DirecTV. The second cheapest package with 2 dvrs. Also we have a firestick & use the Kodi app. Love it.

[cam]

How are things going mid month? Good. It has been a more expensive month, but we expected that.

Best purchase/s made? From this past week, stumbled upon a gift for someone on my Christmas list that can be a difficult one to buy for.

Impulse purchase/s? None really.

Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month? Typical stuff like groceries and whatnot. Gifts if I see deals.

Anything else? Nope.

GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc? Antenna mostly. Apps/channels on the Roku also.

[mrsmuq]

How are things going mid month?

Ugh.. several hundred dollars in unexpected expenses! DH's brake line failed on his truck and needed to be replaced... that was $500. Our industrial sized dehumidifier for our basement has ceased to work, so that's another $400. There's also a leaky shower pipe slowly dripping into the laundry room... grr.


Best purchase/s made?

New boat


Impulse purchase/s?

Two new shirts for myself... they were half off and I'm under my "going out" budget for the month anyway.


Do you have any plans to buy anything else this month?

Preschool supplies. 


Anything else?

I started Christmas shopping for the kids. My goal is to be done shopping by December 1 this year.


GTKY- How do you get your tv shows etc?
We get ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS (actually 5 PBS channels), and CSPAN just from our local (free) cable hook up. We also have Hulu, Netflix and Amazon for streaming (Hulu we stream stuff from Fox largely, plus it has Curious George, Netflix is mostly to watch re-runs and/or for their kid's programming, and Amazon we have because we have Prime anyway.)

[ashiscute]

Things are going okay. I had to renew my tags on my car which always annoys me.

Best purchase- DH and I spent like $65 on a date night satisfy. First in over a year!

Impulse purchases- just bought a new fireplace door for $250. Hope i like it!

Staying in a hotel for a OOT wedding Saturday.

We have Netflix and Amazon Prime. We have an antenna for local channels. We use my brothers cable log in for streaming channels.