save more money

I never qualify for those great marketing research studies. The ones that pay $150 for two hours? They called me tonight, but I think I didn’t drink enough energy drinks to fit into their quotas.

I hereby swear that if I ever get chosen for one of those, every single penny will go into savings. A worthy cause. Now please, create a study I actually qualify for.

and was about 1/4 of the way there, until I realized that tuition at the new school is due quite a bit before tuition was due at my old school (so I’m behind on my savings schedule).

But I have the goal in mind. When I get to that number tucked away where I can decide whatever I want to do with it (separate from emergency, car insurance, tuition savings, etc.) I’ll consider this done.

and still, I’m on pace to sock away more next week than I usually did on a normal paycheck. I do want to take advantage of a sale coupon I have this weekend. My goal now to assess how I’m going to pay for graduate school and also decide what my first “savings” goal is going to be, and what it’s going to be for.

I seriously have been doing awesome at this. I just paid my summer tuition bill (in cash, thank you very much) and still have some socked away. Not as much as I like (it’s amazing, if I paid all my last classes in cash, to think of how much I’m capable of saving if I wasn’t paying for school) but I really am proud of how much I’m sticking away.

my squirrel account is getting bigger as I type.

which I still do want to do…

But I have been saving quite a bit of my last few checks, and I’m just in the midst of deciding what my specific savings goal will be for this goal, and then reaching it.