Happy Monday everyone! Above are some pictures from my weekend. I’m really loving having an iPhone 5 because it makes everything much easier. Expect more pictures from me! Also, if you scroll through my Twitter, you will be able to find my Instagram (I posted it multiple times), so follow me! Yes, I will make it difficult and not post it directly on my blog. 🙂
Thanksgiving was really great for us! I love going to the Boy’s Grandma’s. So many family members go (well over 100 I’m guessing) and it’s a lot of fun. Just check out the dessert table that I posted on Saturday, so many awesome desserts! And I also got my ears pierced on Friday. Yes, I know, truly sad.
I also updated my blog a little bit, I think it looks better, what do you all think? I also added an Extra Income tab above so that I can keep everyone updated and my readers can quickly click on each update without searching too too hard.
I also wanted to thank everyone for your support for my aggressive $38,000 student loan payoff plan. I am excited to finally start putting more effort in this, and I can’t wait for it to be done.
My updates:
Spending:
We are still doing good with our spending. We have bought some Christmas presents for each other (the Boy is completely done), but I still need to tell him what I want! And then we still need to get presents for my sister and the Boy’s family. Still not sure what to get everyone.
I did go shopping over the weekend. Bought a dress, a shirt and a cardigan. Yes, I probably didn’t need these items, but I know that I’ll enjoy them! Did you do any Black Friday shopping? I wasn’t and never will be brave enough to shop with the crazy crowds.
Extra Income (this is on top of my salary from my job):
Yet another great week. I made around $1,175 from online income (staff writing, website, etc.) last week. This is before fees and everything else though. I am still in the middle of drafting my extra income explanation post, but if you have any questions, remember to ask.
Food:
We’ve been doing well with our food spending. We ate out a couple of times last week but it was all cheap food. This is something that we are of course still working on and we will be working on it forever most likely.
I’ve been thinking about this, do any of you do batch cooking? I tried it once and it didn’t go great for me, mainly because I have no patience to cook all day?
I forgot yet again to do a meal plan yesterday, so here it is below:
Being healthy:
I’ve been doing MUCH better with this, but mainly only with me eating better. I ran with my dog a couple of times, but it was so cold last week that each run was not for a very long time.
I did lose 3 pounds last week. I am very surprised how just eating better helped me lose so much weight. Here it goes to future weeks/months/years/decades of better eating!
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I just got an iphone 5 too and love it! Also, congrats on paying off such HUGE debt! I absolutely love the craziness of Black Friday but never end up buying very much because I've noticed that many of the items are not really at their all-time lowest prices :/
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Thanks, I haven't finished paying it off yet, but I'm excited as well.
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Once again, thoroughly impressed by your side hustle income! I keep meaning to try out some batch cooking, but haven't got there yet. I made a meal plan last week and that was awesome. naturally, I neglected to do it for this week and we will be off to a rough start. I have a meeting tonight that includes dinner, which will leave us scrambling for lunches tomorrow as my spouse will likely only make enough for one person tonight.
Thanks! And if you do try batch cooking, you should tell us all about it 🙂
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I can't wait for your extra income post!! I'm doing really well this month so far, but some of it is money I won't see right away. 🙂 Great job on everything you do!
As for batch cooking, I'm going to try a new strategy in December. I'll be posting about it too, hopefully later this week!
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Looking forward to your post!
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$1,175 in online income is pretty nice. I think I've made about half of that so far. But I'm still on track to be debt free in about 6 years.
Thanks!
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Yup we did go to the range, we go every weekend almost! The Boy has enough guns for an army, so it's always a lot of fun 🙂
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Thanks!
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Thanks!
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Yup we went to the range yesterday, it was fun!
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Your extra income figures NEVER fail to amaze me! The shooting looks fun… need to try that sometime 🙂
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Yes shooting is a lot of fun 🙂
So glad you're on instagram so I can keep tabs on you more =) Glad to see things going well!!! Looking forward to the extra income post, especially since I will be quitting my job soon and winter break is coming up!
Haha I'm glad as well!
That's an amazing side income. I can't wait to see the details. I'm jealous you lost three pounds with Thanksgiving and all!
Haha I know! I was very surprised.
That's nice side income….for just a week! Great job on the healthy eating too…what a nice week you had.
Thanks!
Here is my secret to batch cooking:
Each week I make 1 dish w/multiple servings, usually on Sun
Recently that has been soups:
Chicken stock
Gumbo
veg/mushroom/barley
On my list of to dos is:
meatloaf muffuns
6/more servings of chicken (usually split flavors: lemon, BBQ, oven fried)
lasagne
I have in the freezer some lentil stew, chicken cassarole, rice & beans, salisbury steak, swiss steak.
Yes, I do batch cooking – chili and ham/lentil soup. A little time on the weekend, and then meals for several weeks. 🙂 That is amazing on the weight loss – healthy eating does definitely make a difference!
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I batch cook almost every week. This is how my wife and I eat throughout the week and month. I am interested to see your side income post. It is nice to see how other website owners monetize their site along with other freelance work. Nice job so far.