Six on a journey

Deleting my blog: Help

(Six) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:32:02 PST

I would like to delete this blog. How do I go about it?

How I saved my sanity and $6.99

(Six) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:27:49 PST

So yesterday I swung by the drugstore so that I could pick up some mani/pedi stuff that I needed. I haven't gotten a professional mani/pedi in months and decided to give them to myself. Hence I needed to stock up on a few items that were running low. Well wouldn't you know it before...

So tired

(Six) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:09:04 PST

I am so tired. I have been running around since I came back home from work. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, running. Accck. Sometimes I just want to relax. I never seem to have time to do that. I don't know why. There is always something to be done. Right now it's 1 hr past the time I...

I think I am being too passive

(Six) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:01:21 PST

I would like to have a savings at least 2 x the size of one I have now (not including the 401K) and have enough for more than 20% of a down payment on a house. But I think I have been too passive about it. I think it's going to take me a long time to achieve these goals by making...

Hum di dum - I can't come up with a title

(Six) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:00:25 PST

Well I seem to be running out of everything and thus not helping my tight budget. I have to live in a very tight budget all of remaining July. BF birthday is in August and I will be traveling, and I have a little surprise planned for him.
Yesterday I had to buy some necessary toileteries...

Really the end of grocery budget this time around

(Six) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:59 PST

Guess what? I found $7 in one of my pant pockets! I have used it up in buying eggs, fruits, veg and now I am really out. But I will be fine though. Last night I made rice and beans. It was simple and delicious. I had some tinned organic kidney beans. I looked up a recipe online and...

TO DO:

(Six) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:48:20 PST

[X] Eat ramen with stuff in it for lunch
[X] Learn how to use my stopwatch
[ ] Transfer windows itunes to mac
[ ] Get comfortable with using mac
[ ] Inquire about replacement battery for my old Dell
[ ] Learn a particular programming language
[/] Laundry
[ ] Clean
[X] Run
[X]...

Used up my grocery budget until the 15th

(Six) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:10:13 PST

An Indian take out last night did me in. After my run, I really did not feel like cooking, or eating the same things I had. I had about $16 left until the 15th in my grocery budget. But my take out was $13. It made leftovers though and I will be having the remaining for dinner tonight....

Adding up pennies and dollars

(Six) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:14:41 PST

I have been getting a little frustrated as of late. I participate in a 401K plan, I do automatic savings, I try not to go overboard in my spending. The only areas where I seem to have any control over are flexible spending like grocery, miscellaneous purchases, lunch money etc.

And...

Grocery and a little bit of un-motivation

(Six) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:49:32 PST

Uh I feel exactly that somehow - unmotivated. The whole tracking your money business sounds like and is kind of tedious. Why, I spent $26.85 on groceries yesterday and I spent about 10 minutes trying to remember one of the items I bought. (The receipt doesn't indicate the items, just...

Weekend Updates

(Six) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:49:42 PST

The weekend did not start out nice. First of all, it rained all day long in my city. I was supposed to leave that night to go see BF, but my flight was delayed by 6 hours which would have meant that I fly out after mid night. So we decided that I would go home instead and take the...

Went Running & Budgetted

(Six) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:09:55 PST

So yesterday I went running and I felt much better over all. Then I made myself some ricotta pasta,showered and packed since I am leaving to see BF tonight. I have a very tight budget this month. I am planning to not go over $100 in grocery and $20 in lunch take outs. I only have...

I feel so blah today I don't know exactly why

(Six) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:50:45 PST

Uh. Exactly that.

Probably because I missed out on my run yesterday and instead had 2 leftover beers from the fridge. TWO, not one.

Probably because my place has a mind of it's own and starts to clutter itself no matter how much decluttering I try* to do.

Probably because...

July Goals

(Six) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:08:51 PST

1. Keep Grocery/Lunch Expenses under $150. Update: lowered to $120
2. Set up and keep vet appointment
3. Take inventory of items to sell (craigslist?)
4. Place advertisement for items to be sold
5. Plan out BF's birthday surprise
6. Run 4 times a week
7. Loose 5 pounds
8....

A great weekend with not much spending

(Six) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:41:00 PST

BF came to visit this weekend. We had a great time, with not much spending. I did not do any of my runs this weekend, but we did a lot of walking. So, I need to run today and on Wednesday. I will try to run for 25 minutes continuously, and if I can't reach that goal, no big deal....

Got a little carried away with decluttering

(Six) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:23:27 PST

Yes that happened. If that's possible. To start with, yesterday I went for a run and ran 1.75 miles in 22 minutes. I didn't push myself too hard, so I know I could have done better.
After the run, I got myself a personal size veggie pizza from Subway like I always do on Thursdays...

Ideas for extra income: can clutter be my friend ?

(Six) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:19:39 PST

I have a considerable amount of cds that I could get rid of once I convert all the music I want to keep into mp3s, and hard bound text books and paperbacks that I can do without. So I am leaning towards selling them. Would it be illegal to burn mp3s and then sell the cds? Will I get...

How to PFB (personal finance blog) effectively?

(Six) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:35:23 PST

Writing a PF blog is hard! I can't always think of PF related topics to write about. I am afraid this is turning out to be a diary instead of a blog. Hopefully I can throw in some financial stuff here and there. I created this blog so that I can be accountable for myself financially...

What constitutes a NSD?

(Six) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:59:51 PST

Does not spending any money apart from "reoccurring planned for" payments thwart a NSD?

For the record, I did NOT have a NSD. I was too tempted by a mini ice cream in my favorite flavor. So there goes $2.50 and a potential NSD.

I did pack my lunch to bring with me though, so...

Hello World!

(Six) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:46:44 PST

Hello everybody. Today's my first day here. I started this blog to challenge myself to save as much as I can in 6 months. Once that 6 month time period is over, I will reevaluate my situation and set up another set of goal(s) for the next 6.

Hello I am Six, and I am very happy to meet you all.