Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed St. Patty’s Day. I’ve decided to start combining my Saturday and Monday life posts together. I figure most of you probably don’t want to hear about my life twice a week. And I’m not that interesting… 😛 Anyways, it was a pretty relaxing and boring weekend, especially since W was sick the entire time.
I think we’ve decided to wait until next year to buy our next house. We’re not ready to sell just yet, and honestly, we still love our house. Getting rid of it so soon, especially when we haven’t found anything that we liked more to justify the cost, just seems stupid. Unless something 100% perfect comes along, then I don’t think we plan on buying this year at all. We really don’t want to buy something that we only kind of like and then end up buying another house quickly after again.
Next year is not out of the question though. It will most likely be next year when we buy, so hopefully something perfect comes up by then. I’m sure it will, but for now we’re just going to continue enjoying where we live. Lifestyle inflation has definitely been catching up with me, but we should be trying to save so that maybe we can buy the next house with cash or at least a majority of it with cash.
What made you decide to buy your second house? Was it lifestyle inflation, or you just grew out of your current house? For us it’s a mixture of both. Something with a bigger yard would be nice, and so would more than just a 1-car garage (check out my “Spending” section below for an idea about why).
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Spending
Hmmm some major spending in the past week, that is for another post though. Lets just say we bought a new car but it hasn’t been delivered yet…
Target also had almost its WHOLE Home section on sale at two Targets near my house. Let’s just say that I went to Target a total of 3 times this weekend and spent a little over $300 redoing the home decor in our living and dining room. I bought tons of things and love it all! Now I just need a new side table in the living room and I think we’ll be done (except for the fact that we still need to install carpet in the living room).
As most of you know, me and W have lived together for nearly 6 years and up until recently, never really decorated our house. Yes we have furniture and things on the wall, but nothing matches and it just looks like a disaster. Now that we have time (and more money to spend), we have decided to start decorating more. There are TONS of things that we still want to do, and I have a whole post dedicated to that and it will be published in the near future.
Extra Income (does not include income from our main jobs)
I received approximately $2,323 in payments in the past week. It was a good week and I would love it if it just stayed this way forever. As most of you know, extra income does not include any salary or income that we make from our jobs (I’m an analyst and he’s a car salesman). A lot of you have wondered about my schedule and how I make time for everything. Were there any specifics you wanted to know or maybe I should just make a whole post on it? Such as with my daily schedule, everything that I do, etc. Please let me know if this sounds really boring or like something you would read.
Affiliate income is still going great and I’m glad I started working on this. I do have bigger plans for this and hope to see this area of my extra income to continually increase. I’m also starting to think more about passive income. What do you do for passive income?
Me and my friend are still stuck on a name for our business. Some of you said to just think of something and change it later, but with what we want to do, the name is an important part of the business. We can’t really do much else until we start thinking of our “brand” and the name.
Food
Yet another meal plan this week! We are still doing great with eating at home 5 days a week. I’m not sure how much we spent on food last week but it was minimal. We did go out to eat twice, but it was at two places right next to our house that are super cheap (but the best Mexican and Chinese we have ever had).
How are you doing with your food budget?! If you have any tasty looking recipes from last week, please share the blog post in the comments so that I can add it to my meal plan for future weeks 🙂
- Tuesday: Pulled Pork Sandwiches
- Wednesday: Chicken Rollatini with Spinach alla Parmigiana
- Thursday: Out to eat
- Friday: Steak and vegetables
- Saturday: Out to eat
- Sunday: Breakfast for dinner (French toast, eggs, bacon)
Being healthy
I’m still doing good with this. I could be eating a little more healthier though. I’ve been eating a lot of fruit for healthy snacks. My sister still yells at me all the time for being unhealthy and she is definitely a motivator!
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If spending $300 to decorate makes you enjoy staying in your house, then it's definitely money well spent. Especially if you haven't found a place that you love. Closing costs are expensive! =)
Yup that's one thing we keep thinking about. Thankfully when we bought our current house, the seller paid all of the closing costs, but that won't happen again most likely.
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Perhaps its best not to move just yet. The Mrs and me are getting antsy to move as well, but we know that we'd never make back what we paid + what we've put into our house. And so we also wait as well.
You ask: What do I do for passive income? I write a whole blog about it! 🙂 I've got another niche site update coming up on Wednesday. Stop by to check it out. It should be entertaining at the least.
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You're the master of niche sites haha!
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$300.00 is a small investment if it makes staying in your current home more enjoyable. My husband and I think of moving all the time but he wants to move to a cheaper state where we could buy a house for at least 40% less than what we paid here in NY. From a financial standpoint it makes total sense but moving away from extended family is emotional.
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I agree Sara. I don't know if I could move away from family just to save money. I don't have much family, and I'd prefer to stay close!
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I think it's always a good idea on waiting to buy a new house. No reason to rush the buying process unless you have to.
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I agree! I guess we're just worried about prices and interest rates rising. But we need to stop thinking about that.
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Thanks for the mention Michelle! I can relate to the name for your business, you do want it to be something good that you're happy with. It took my wife a while to come up with our name, though I know it depends on the type of business you're doing in terms of how important the name is.
I agree. With our business, the name is really important, so that is why we want it to be perfect.
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Good to know! I will definitely start writing a post on that.
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Thanks Catherine! We've been doing good with eating at home thankfully.
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Oh I definitely will then! Thanks for letting my know.
I love the home section at Target also. I always have to go to that section when I go to Target.
My extra income has sucked this month but that happens from time to time. I am glad you made a decision on the house. Should make things easier to figure out for everything else going on.
Oh whatever Lance, you are doing great!
You never know, if you save to buy your new house with enough cash, maybe you won't even have to sell your current house and you could rent, and start making rental income! 🙂
I spent some time this weekend switching my site to self host. I should have done it months ago, but I just kept procrastinating. It was so easy.
We are not huge on decorating since we live in our apartment. Many of the decorations we have were given to us by my in laws and mom.
Eh I don't think we want to get into the rental business, we're just not interested.
And congrats on switching to self hosting! You won't regret it.
I'd love to know you daily schedule! 🙂 Seriously I have no idea how you do it all and if I can learn some better productivity all the better! I didn't receive any extra income via something other than video editing, but I did make more than triple my projected income (and March isn't done yet), so that helped with a lot of things like having to spend 3k on my car. I'm also spending $500 on a new (used) computer but that is coming out of future paychecks, which helps, and should cost $100 less since I'm selling my old monitor. Hopefully the new ebook will generate a little passive income. That would be nice. Thanks for the blog mention!
Haha yes I will make a post soon! It'll probably be extremely boring though 🙂
Yes I agree! We're not looking forward to selling our current house, so that is also a main factor.
Congratulations on another great week of income. I wouldn't worry about buying a new house. So long as I live in my current region, I'm not even going to think about scaling up to a house unless I get married and start a family. The added costs just aren't worth it.