Parking Ticket...

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So, south county boy has to park on this back ally street for work every day...

Well, he was coming back from picking something up for work and most of the parking was gone. Another business parks some forklifts on the street sometimes, so South County Boy parked near one of them... and parked his car facing the same way the fork lifts were parked... which was facing the wrong way for the street...

Apparently people do it all the time...

but he got a nice lovely $51 parking ticket for parking his car the wrong way on the road...

#FAIL

Getting back on track

What a couple weeks we have had over here in our neck of the woods. I had to help run a huge Relay For Life event for my local city ($115,000 raised and rising!!!) but it took a lot of hours to get there and a lot of frustrations I'm still recovering from. Lets just say I probably worked 40 hours in 3 days it was nuts.... and I'm still working like crazy trying to absorb a lot of work from some other employees on leave...

Hubs and I are working on trying to get back into the groove of things and get back to basics with not only our spending but with my new schedule. I'm no longer working at early morning AM shifts at the moment while i'm covering for some other employees so we have been trying to figure out cooking and chores once more all over again as i'm now staying up later in the day and sleeping in more. It's amazing how much more I was able to fit into the day when I had the early morning shifts... but i'm slowly adjusting and doing a few things before work and then staying up later to get other items done in the evening hours.

I'm still working hard on my weight loss and I have a few days left for my work weight loss challenge and the first weigh in for my 6 month dietbet and i'm hopeful! I've lost over 10 lbs so far and strangers are telling how good i'm looking and I can't wait till Monday to see how everything is going since Monday will be the final weigh-in for my work challenge. I can't wait to see how many inches I've lost.

I also helped throw a bridal shower for my friend Amy (her wedding is this month-- so excited) so I've been getting my dress altered and doing all sorts of things with the wedding prep too so its been busy all around... but were still here!

Hoping to get back on track and back in the game on things. 

June Budget

After 2 months of basically having to cough up almost a grand in car repairs, you'll notice the new $100 monthly savings we have built into our budget for car repairs. I'm crossing that goal off as completed because we have already essentially saved and then spent $1600 this year on maintenance for our cars... and i'm sick of that goal... its haunted me for years so its just getting built into the budget at this point so I can just forget all about it.

The big focus is going to be my Roth this month because it was shorted last month in order to make our budget actually break even. June and July will be spread between catching this up, and saving a little extra for our vacation to see SCB's parents for a week. We can't get the roth fixed this month because my friends wedding is this month and I have to pay for my dress alterations, gifts, etc. So we are hoping to get at least half way there this month and then half way next month too.  

June Budget:

Spending

Mortgage: $771.99

Church Tithe: $580.00

Other Church offerings: $40.00

Groceries/Household Items: $300.00

Date Nights & Eating Out: $100.00

Pocket Money ($40 each): $80.00

Cell Phone Work Reimbursement: $60.00

HOA: $270.00

Utility Bills: $150.00 (Second cell, Electricity, Internet)

Gasoline: $250.00

Discretionary: $74.95

Savings

Christmas Savings: $50.00

Birthday/gifts Savings: $50.00

Vacation Savings: $100
Car Registration Savings: $25.00

Roth IRA: $275.00

Insurance Savings: $143.00

Prescriptions/Doctors Visits: $50.00

Roxy (Dog) Savings Account: $50.00
Car Emergency Fund: $100.00

Husband's Paychecks: Half for ROTH IRA CATCH UP, 1/2 for wedding and other monthly stuff that comes up.

What we spent in May

We had hoped May was going to be a cut and dry month for us... but boy were we wrong! We spent money like no other and if it weren't for the fact that it was a 3 paycheck month for us, we would have gone into the red. With that being said, June for sure is going to be a savings month because it has to-- My Roth IRA got shorted $1200 since we had to spend that check instead of save it...

Our eating out was triple what it normally was because my work house got all junked up and we were too exhausted to cook or just didn't have the time to prep the healthy foods we purchased...

May  2014 Spending:

• Church Tithe/ Giving: $828.00
• Groceries: $358.11 (6.32 Household items)
• Car
• Gasoline: $343.70
• Car Repairs: $715.57
• Insurance: $638.43
• Housing:
• Mortgage: $771.80
• Extra Principle: $0.19
• HOA: $270.00
• Bathroom fan: $47.35
• Eating Out: $274.99
• Date Nights: 
• $5.50 (Beach parking)
• $16.99 (Movie Tickets)
• Gifts:
• Other: $55.52
• Fun Money: $80.00 (Always $40 a month per person)
• Work Cell Phone: $60.00
• Electricity: $17.04
• Internet: $47.99
• Cell phone: $39.88
• Dog: $16.88
• Clothes:
• South County Girl: $56.91
• South County Boy: $17.05
• Medical: $109.69
• Doctors Visits: $74.09
• Prescriptions: $35.60

• Other:
• Water Barrel / Emergency Essentials: $97.83
• Wii U Accessories: $15.57
• Postage $7.62
• Home Depot: Wood for storage closet: $119.51
• Garden: $74.51
• DietBet: $25.00
• Bedroom Wardrobe: $487.76 (Includes Truck Rental)
• Amazon - computer cables $16.62
• Trashcan, 2 pillows, 2 steering wheel covers: $65.70
• Allen wrenches: $11.26
• New Bed Frame: $61.56
• Computer Speakers: $59.38
• Make up - $38.96
• Treadmill $215.19
• Other Random trips to Walmart: $296.39

What We Spent in 2014:

• Church Tithe/ Giving: $3,608
• Groceries: $1,514.04 + Household Items: $97.47
• Automobiles
• Gasoline: $1,212.35
• Smog: $51.24
• Registration: $104.00
• Repairs: $1,633.65
• Insurance: $638.43
• Housing: $4,328.49
• Mortgage: $3,859.19
• Extra Principle: $13.76
• HOA: $1,350
• Small house repairs:
• $6.44 (fixing under the sink piping)
• $53.91 (New front door deadbolt)
• $87.18 (Bathroom Faucet + Tp Holder)
• $47.35 (Bathroom Fan)
• Eating Out: $734.70
• Date Night: 
• $2.00 (Movies)
• 5.50 (beach)
• $16.99 (Movies)
• Clothes:
• SCG: $148.35
• SCB: $87.18
• Dog: $55.16
• Fun Money: $400.00
• Cell Phones: $381.23
• Electricity: $259.27
• Internet: $183.95
• Gifts:
• Wedding: $100.00
• Other: $94.45
• Birthdays: $576.75
• Medical:
• Prescriptions: $76.96
• Dr. Visit: $309.20
• Allergy Pills: $32.38
• Cold Meds: $10.17
• Furniture:
• Bedroom Wardrobe: $487.76 (Includes Truck Rental)
• New bed Frame: $61.56
• $361.19 Vacation to Utah: 
• Food: $124.66
• Gas: 187.30
• Other: $49.23

• Other
• $27.45 (Wedding Card, Walking Safety Light, 10 Storage Boxes)
• $4.69 (2 car key copies)
• $24.09 ($5 dry Vac, 7 house key copies)
• $10.79 (MLP dog tag, running light)
• $3.21 (Bug Spray)
• $347.75 DYSON Pet Vacuum (Kohls)
• $208.18 Disney Half Marathon
• $208.18 Disney Half Marathon
• $9.12 Laundry Basket
• $27.98 (Running Arm Band, Computer Cable, Computer Microphone,Nose hair trimmer.)
• $91.98 Turbo Tax/State and Fed File
• $13.18 V-Day items.
• 21.55 (Metal Skewers, Organizer bins, Shower cleaner)
• $7.83 OTC Medications and Water bottle
• $51.60 (Postage and Handcrank/solar radio)
• $35.54 (Audio Book, Journal, card, etc)
• $153.28 (15 & 30 Gallon Water Barrels + Solar Batteries / Food Storage)
• $30.98 (Food Slicer)
• $14.27 (Postage)
• $24.82 (CPU Fan + Workout gloves)
• $5.90 (Straws)
• $17.16 (polarized sunglasses)
• $55.00 Diet Bet
• $138.51 New Running Shoes
• $0.99 Game App
• $34.78 Rental Car
• $7.26 Cutting Boards
• $8.00 Batteries
• $15.57 Wii U Accessories
• $119.51 Wood for storage closet
• $74.51 Garden
• $16.62 Computer Cables
• $65.70 Trashcan, 2 pillows, 2 steering wheel covers
• $11.26 Allen Wrenches
• $56.38 Computer Speakers
• $215.19 Treadmill
• $38.96 Make-up
• $296.39 Walmart