Hey everyone! Happy Monday. I hope you all had an awesome weekend. I still can’t believe that it’s June. The year is just flying by.
We didn’t do a whole ton this weekend, just did a lot of relaxing and some side hustle work.
This week I have Thursday off and we are taking our engagement photos. W isn’t too happy because he doesn’t like photos. I honestly just want pictures of us and the dogs haha… I hope they turn out great! I really don’t want the normal cheesy looking photos where everything is posed. I want them as natural looking as possible. I’ll share some photos with you all as soon as I get them.
I wanted to share something funny with you all – well at least it’s funny to me. The other day I received an email from a reader, and she was telling me that my blog is helpful. We then started talking back and forth and she actually went to the same high school as me, and she lives in the same town as me! Small world, right?
Also, don’t forget but Google Reader shuts down in a couple of weeks. Don’t forget to switch your reader over to something else. I’ve come to love Bloglovin, so I recommend trying that out. What are you switching to?
Student Loan Update
My student loans are ALMOST GONE. That’s so nice to say. I will definitely have them paid off by the end of this month. I know that I’ve had some delays, but I am still of course very happy with my progress. Also, not putting thousands of dollars (my minimum payment was less than $500 but I’ve been throwing a lot of extra money towards the loans) towards student loans every single month will feel awesome!
Spending
We did do some spending in the past week. We bought W some new clothes for the engagement photos but I believe that was all. Spent around $200 but he could use the clothes anyway, so it was worth it.
Extra Income (does not include income from our main jobs)
Extra income was good last week, but I’m still waiting on quite a few payments. Hopefully these will FINALLY be collected this week because some are so old that they were due when I was on vacation in St. Thomas early last month.
I also finally launched my new blog this weekend. Diversified Finances is live! There isn’t much on it right now. I was going to wait to share it with you all, but I’m not much of a secret keeper and wanted to share it immediately. This blog will be all about how I’m trying to diversify my finances and eventually become financially independent.
Some of you might be wondering WHY I started a second blog. Well, I figured I wanted to bring Making Sense of Cents back to all things personal finance, and not talk 100% about my side hustles.
I went through my past posts recently, and pretty much 99% of them are about my side hustles. I have a ton of ideas for side hustles posts for the future (like over 50), and decided that since I like to talk so much, a second blog would probably be a better idea. I don’t think I will be posting too, too often on Diversified Finances, but maybe 2 to 3 times per week.
So what does this mean for my extra income posts? I’m still not sure. What would you rather I do? Should I post my monthly extra income posts on this blog or the other one? It would fit on the other blog better, but it seems to be such a big staple on Making Sense of Cents! Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Being healthy
I have actually been doing AWESOME with being more healthy. I did eat unhealthy yesterday, but for the most part I have been eating pretty healthy and working out a good amount.
I’ve been trying to run/walk at least a mile each dog with our dog (the other dog doesn’t go for walks – the joys of having a French Bulldog runt). I’ve also been trying to run around 4 miles every other day along with working out each day. It’s so nice having a gym in our basement and a cute pup to run with. I think I’m going to make it a monthly goal to run/walk at least 100 miles each month. It’s a lot, but I definitely that that it is doable.
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Congrats on the second site Michelle. I’m sure you’ll do amazing just like with MSOC!
Thanks Lance! 🙂
Fantastic that you are paying off the student loans. I hope you’ll take a lot of that money you’re saving and start investing it so that you’ll get extra income without the extra work! It’s a lot easier to do if you start early than if you allow your lifestyle to swallow the money that used to be going to the loans and then try to cut back to invest. You can then use some of the income you get from investing to supplament your lifestyle, and you’ll have your cake and eat it too.
I agree, we will definitely start investing more heavily 🙂
Awesome new site! I have a plan for a new one that is not personal finance related and I’m going to start planning it over the Summer and maybe launch in the Fall or Winter depending on how side income from Y.A.M. goes. I hope your engagement photos go well and don’t worry too much about them being too posed. A good photographer will make sure that doesn’t happen.
Thanks DC! Oooh excited to hear more about your new site!
I’m like W I really dislike taking photos. Go figure as my wife loves them. Thats amazing how small the world is that someone who emailed you could be right around the corner. As for the income reports maybe give the weekly reports here and the monthly reports put on both. This is online and most people what to know what you make and how you are doing it so I wouldn’t take it completely away.
Thanks Thomas!
I agree that the side hustle updates fit better with DF. “Making Sense of Cents” sounds more like a PF blog for young adults.
Thanks for highlighting my post!
Agreed. Thanks Emily!
Congrats on your new blog. I am sure you are going to have a lot of fun and tons of success.
Thanks Jai 🙂
Thanks for the mention!
I can’t wait to see your new website up in action!
Thanks Holly!
Good luck with the new blog Michelle. I would take your side hustle posts to the other blog because that is the point of it. It will give you good content and keep readers because they will want to do the same. Thank you for the mention, I really appreciate it.
Thanks! And yes you are probably right.
Congrats on the second site Michelle! I am sure it’ll do great just like this site. 🙂
Thanks John 🙂
Hi Michelle, I just checked out the new site. I like the design. I think you should put the financial updates on that site; you can always have a page on this site that provides a history of links on both sites that chronicles your progress.
Cheers,
Ree
Good idea. Thanks!
Congrats on the new blog! I’m sure it is going to be awesome.
Thanks!
I can’t imagine running two sights. I’m working hard enough just to take care of my one. 🙂 I think it’s a great goal you have to run/walk 100 miles a month. That will be especially challenging but you can do it. I’ve got a goal to run 1,000 miles this year and am on track to complete that barring any injury. And I love the results in that it really helps give me energy and focus for my daily tasks.
Haha well hopefully I can manage it all! 🙂
Two sites! WOW! Busy lady!
I guess I’m indifferent about where to put your extra income. I think it kind of belongs on both sites, actually!
Rock on!
Thanks!
Congrats on the new blog. I can’t wait to check it out.
Thanks Jason 🙂
Congratulation on your new blog, great to see things are going so well, I don’t see how you find the time to do everything.
I wish there was more time 🙂