admin on Feb 3rd 2009
Its difficult to write about saving money when you simply don’t make enough to save. I wanted to write todays entry in the blog about how I was planning to save up some cash for needed repairs and wanted upgrades to my kitchen. I guess What I’m really going to write about is the fact that I don’t seem to be bringing enough money home to have any left at the end of the bills for saving.
One thought that had crossed my mind was to leave the money in adsense that has collected over the past year or so. (No this site doesn’t make any money… But I have managed over the last year to finally get to the first $100 payout from my other website) It occured to me later on though that letting google hold on to the payment until I had enough to actually do something with it was a really bad idea. The big G has a rep for taking peoples income if someone complains, even if the person who got a complaint didn’t actually do anything wrong. Using google as a sort of temporary savings account would be kind of like leaving it on the dashboard of my car. Who knows if it will be there when I come back for it. Most people are honest but theres still a pretty good chance I’d come back to a broken window.
This leaves a dilemma though. If I cash out the $100 I’ve finally built up, It will be spent long before I get up to enought to really feel like I got something for my money. I want to retile the floor in the kitchen where its starting to come up, and as you can guess $100 isn’t going to buy the tools let alone the materials. It might cover the grout if I go for the cheap stuff…
Anyhow, I know this weeks blog post is a bit late. I’ve been working overtime so I haven’t been here to write a new post for a while. My company only offers overtime about as often as haleys comet comes around. If they’re offering it, I have to take it while I can because its a once in a lifetime deal. (mix that with the fact that I had to choose between grocerys and car insurance this month and you’ll see why keeping up with this blog is just a tad less important.) Btw, I chose the car insurance so I sit here typing while dreaming of what kind of foods I can scrape together from the assortment of old canned goods left in the pantry.
Well, until next week… (perhaps I’ll lose some weight)
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