Save money

Well, I’ve opened a new bank account which is VERY difficult to access, at least to pull money out of. I won’t go into details, but it’s much easier to put money in than to get it out. I’m contributing a little bit of money from each paycheck into this account.

In another note, I’m going to be increasing my contribution to my retirement fund at work… I’m already at the match amount, I’m going to increase it by 2% more.

I have not dedicated myself to putting a certain amount of money aside, but I’ve been monitoring my spending a little more closely. The economic stimulus plan has aided me in this as well, I used half to pay off a car repair and the other half has remained relatively untouched!

I need to set aside a certain amount (percentage, even?) of money from each check so I don’t have to panic when catastrophes/unexpected situations happen. Also need to have money put aside for the fun things, like vacations and other things on my list.

This is more of a short term-ish goal for me, I already have long term savings accounts already set up.