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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I too, would like to read about your schedule. After all, you are Superwoman!! 🙂 Congrats on the extra income!
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Thanks!
I'd definitely be interested in hearing about your daily schedule!
That stuff from Target all looks super cute :).
Thanks Brittany!
extra income is very inspiring!
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Thanks 🙂
Ha, the Target home clearance stole my money too! Those little red stickers are like money magnets. I like your meal planning idea, I need to start doing that again. It makes life so much less stressful and saves a ton of money.
Haha I know! The WHOLE entire Home section at the Targets around me were on sale, it was a disaster for me.
We are building our second home right now. Prior to this we were living in a condo and it was starting to get a little cramped. Plus, our condo complex had become increasingly full of renters instead of owners and they are not as invested in keeping things looking nice. I won't lie though, there was a little bit of lifestyle inflation going on as well. 😉
Haha there is definitely lifestyle inflation going on with me 🙂
I think it is great that you are considering want vs need for a new house. I know so many people that find out they are having a baby and then think they need a new house and/or a new car. Not true! We lived in an 800 sq foot house for about 10 years. It wasn't until the third baby that I thought… hey, we could really use more space! We got a "new to us" car also. Trying to fit three car seats in the back of a Camry is really hard! I did it for a year. Boy, was I ready for a bigger car !
Here is a something to think about. Buying a house can eat up a huge amount of your time. You are doing so well with the extra income – how will this change if you don't have as much time ?
~ Christie
Thanks Christie! Yeah, we like our house now, so we think it's stupid that we want something bigger. Our house now is a total 2,500 square feet, and we definitely don't need more room!
I am with you regarding not buying a house this year. We are waiting until next year to sell and buy. I also agree with you for the business name. It is the most important aspect of setting up the business. It doesn't matter what you actually do because if you have a crappy business name, it will affect your ability to succeed.
Glad someone agrees with me! 🙂
I agree, thanks Jordann!
Haha I should have but I already started decorating. I will post AFTER pictures though 🙂
we`ve never really decorated our apartment either, it`s a random mix! Good for you, choosing to stay with your current house for now, I can understand the dangers of lifestyle inflation, so good for you for staying where you`re at!
Thanks! 🙂
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I would also love to know your daily schedule.It doesn't seem like I have enough time in the day for everything that I am trying to work on.
I will make one soon. Seems like everyone wants to know!
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Another great week, Michelle – congrats! I would love to see a post that breaks down what your monthly extra income comes from and some tips on how you got to the point where you are earning so much. As far as the house selling stuff, go with your gut. When it's time to move, you'll know it. :-). Go to Mr. CBB's website and look for his Spinach and Ricotta Fettuccine recipe – it's one of our favorites!
Thanks Laurie!
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You're doing the opposite from me regarding companies… I am pretty much designing mine completely backward! I highly recommend checking out marketingforhippies.com and the ebook that Tad has there. His stuff is amazing.
Thanks! I will definitely check that out.
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I'm pretty glad the nearest Target is 70 miles away, or it might be ugly. You'll know when it's time to buy a new house. I don't think rushing into something would be good. Thanks for including me this week.
There are Targets all over the place here, not good!
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We've been talking about whether we should stay or move once we pay the mortgage off. I blogged about it last week as it really was something we have been tossing around for a while. I think we will stay though for a bit, fix up what we need around here and if the perfect house pops us then great if not we still love this house. It's more the land we were wanting but I guess we can't have it all> Great job with the income! Cheers
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Yes this is exactly what we're thinking!
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