January 26th, 2006 - My personal savings
Also back in March, I wrote about saving half of my personal spending money (with an update a few days later). I decided to save the money and see if I decded on somethhing later in the year. I never did, although I have come up with a dozen things to spend it on, most of which required waiting until the end of the year or even two years to have enough money for it.
I’m proud to say that I saved all of the money, plus at least half of the money I got from test proctoring, except once. At the end of the year, I had $585. One month, I miscalcuated some other personal spending, so I used the month’s savings amount to cover that in order to not be indebted to the house. However, as already noted, I also put in half the money from proctoring, something I wasn’t initially requiring myself to do, which made up for the lapse. (This month, I also spent the money on a discounted outdoor fire pit, something I’d been eyeing for a while. Seeing them on year-end discount, I picked one up. One of my ideas is patio furniture, which I didn’t end up buying because we got two outdoor captain’s chairs and have a card table from the CR-V. The fire pit is a nice addition to this setup.) Actually, that amount doesn’t sound right, I’m missing another month–perhaps I didn’t send December’s portion off to the savings account.