Patience....

Patience... Is something I don't have much of!  I HATE waiting :(  I can't wait to get my car sold, I just hope I didn't get too excited too early, counting my chicks before they hatched!  Haven't heard back yet from the potential buyer for a couple days now, hopefully they're just working out some fine print though!

WAAHOOOO!!!!

I received some pretty funny and exciting text messages from my husband today at work :)  He works for a Dodge dealer, one his mom happens to be a partner at and is a car dealer.  When we decided to sell my car we enlisted the help of the other dealer and he put it on autotrader.  We had some calls about it last week, this is the text conversation with my husband today!  

DH: One Chicken

DH: Two Chicken

DH: Three Chicken 

Me: ? Four

DH: I'm counting our chickens before they hatch

Me: OOOOOOOOO

DH: You might want to drive your car tonight........

Me: Please tell me that means Melissa won't have a pink get away car at her wedding! LOL. (my sister gets married in June, one of her colors is Fuchsia) 

DH:  Guy from Wisconsin.  Wife got a bunch of inheritance money.  Want pink with white seats.  They'll start making plans to get down here!  

The remaining balance on my car is $23,059.22.  Selling price of the car $32,500. Our only other debt is the mortgage.  That's gonna make for a nice deposit in the Emergency Fund!

Mini Vacay

We are taking a little mini vacay this weekend!  We are gonna drive the couple hours to the Kansas Speedway to take the kids to watch the "races," tonight.  Actually it's just practice and it's free will donation to get in.  The in laws will be camping out in their motor home all weekend at the race track, so we're gonna spend the night with them tonight and we'll eat with them probably in the motor home.  They also offered to babysit the kids tonight, so that DH and I could go to the bars, hopefully we will avoid overspending there AND the brand new casino!  Tomorrow morning we plan to spend some time at the Legends shopping center and see what we can find to do with the kids there, maybe bowling or hanging out at the T-Rex cafe.  There is also a theater, but we'll probably avoid it since our hometown theater only charges $6 for an adult and the kids are both free there ;)  DH plans to drive his Buick Grand National (which is paid off), the Buick is already full of gas from last summer, so he thinks he needs to burn the old gas.  Saturday night we're gonna meet up with a bunch of other Buick Nerds drivers and hang out and then we'll head home.  We contemplated staying Saturday night too, BUT the kid's have a Sunday School program during church this weekend and I don't want them to miss it!

Join Swagbucks!!!

I know there are posts all over different blogs, especially ones about budgeting that talk about swagbucks!  I've been a member for a few years, but recently I've really been earning some big bucks!  Click the sign up link at the bottom of the widget to your right!!!  Every time you earn swagbucks with a search, I will too!!!  I almost ALWAYS win on my first search of the day, then after that I make sure to do a search every few hours.  I have the swagbucks toolbar downloaded, so it's pretty easy to open a new tab search something quick and see if I win even while I'm at work.  I am trying to earn enough swagbucks to pay for my son's b-day gift in June!  So far I've been able to redeem $25 in amazon gift cards just in the last 2 months!  It's easy to win about 10 swagbucks a day!  I've been getting about 75/day for the last couple weeks!

One place NOT to skimp!!

This week I've learned one place NOT to go cheap as you can is.... CAT Litter!  I never wanted an indoor cat because I always think they make your house stink.  My sister pointed out to me that my aunt's house never smells and she has a cat, that as long as I take care of the litter box it should be fine.  I used to scoop it every morning, then got a little lax only doing it every few days.  I bought the $1 litter from the dollar general and 2 days after changing the litter I can smell cat poop! yuck.  We'll be going back to Tidy cat ASAP!

A Step Closer!

My husband got my car all cleaned up today and actually LISTED it for sale on autotrader :)
http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?zip=66538&endYear=2013&modelCode1=CHALLENGER&startYear=1981&makeCode1=DODGE&listingType=used&searchRadius=25&listingId=319589140&Log=0

Partnership

I am the person that takes care of all our finances and makes sure the bills all get paid.  My husband puts his set amount in the account every payday.  Then all the bills are magically paid and he doesn't have anything to worry about, right?  He apparently has no idea the stress that comes along with managing all of our finances.  He hasn't taken my budget very seriously.  Tonight I think we're going to have a little talk about our finances and I'm going to put him in charge of everything for a month.  I'm gonna have him change the password on the bank account and take my debit card, then I will live on ONLY the small amount of cash which he usually does every 2 weeks.  This isn't only going to be a learning experience for him, but for me also.  If it turns out that this arrangement works better for us, then that would be Great!