Regularly put money into my savings account

I rolled about $140 in change this week and put it straight into my savings. I’m going to try and make a more concerted effort to roll my change, because that shit adds up!

Got my tax refund and my “Bush money.” Guess where that’s going?

I have been really good about putting money in the Gayle Fund over the last couple of weeks. I used to have the cash squirreled away where I couldn’t see it, but now I keep it hidden in plain sight. Seeing the money jogs my memory and reminds me I need to put a few more bucks toward the goal everyday.

I’ve got $125 to deposit into my savings account this weekend. Naturally, the money will go to the Gayle Fund. I haven’t been able to put in $100 a month like I originally hoped, but I still think I can come up with round trip train fare to Seattle by August.

Now that my best friend has announced she’s getting married in Seattle next August I’ve got something to save up for. This weekend I deposited over $200 into what I am now calling the Gayle Fund, which is, appropriately enough, the funds I am saving up to go see Gayle get hitched. At first I was merely squirreling away spare cash in a drawer in my apartment. Then it dawned on me that I’d be better served by putting it into my savings account where it could accumulate interest. So now my savings account is where the Gayle Fund lives. I’m going to try to put at least $100 dollars into it every month, so by next August I’ll have about $1200 in there. Not enough to cover the entire cost of the trip, but a helpful sum nonetheless.

My Dad gave me two hundred bucks for my birthday. Guess where that is going.

I have a dream and this dream is to keep to the budget I made up for myself after following my spending habits for a whole month, and deposit whatever money I have left over at the end of the month into my savings account. It should come to roughly $500. Of course, “should” is the operative word in that sentence. Who knows what little side purchases will seep in. I’m gonn atry to resist though. Try to resist.

We all know that I started hording stray ten dollar bills four months ago and that i had planned to deposit these collected bills directly into my savings account. I have stuck to this practice. Or half of it at least.

You see, a couple months ago when I found out that the Philadelphia trip was actually gonna happen I decided not to deposit my hord into my savings account. Instead, I would keep all the bills in my apartment, and when the time came use whatever amount I had saved to pay for the Philly trip.

all in all the Philadelphia trip cost me $209. When I hauled out my hord last week to pay for everything, I found that i had managed to save $177. I only had to withdraw thirty-two extra bucks to make up the difference. I was so happy. Not only had iImanaged to save, but I had managed to pay for a long awaited trip without dipping into my actual savings. I’m really excited to know I can do that.

I would like to go to Illinois in June. Guess I’d better start saving :-)

I apparently double paid a medical expense, which is to say, the provider hounded me to settle up on the bill because my insurence company was dragging its feet in processing the claim. So, I sent the provider a check for the specified amount, $133, to shut them up and get them off my back. Seems that my payment arrived around the same time the insurence company finally reimbursed them. So yesterday I got a letter from the provider telling me I had double paid, and inside was a check made out to me in the sum of $133.

I was thrilled, especially since money has been a bit tight recently. But I’m no dummy. That check went directly into my savings account where it can sit and collect interest. That brings the total amount I have deposited into my savings account so far to $212. Good on me!

Today, for the first time since adding this goal to my list 100 million years ago, I put money into my savings account! Almost 80 bucks to be exact. Last week I read an interesting money saving tip on MSN that I thought I’d attempt to employ. You designate a certain type of currency, like five dollar bills or ten dollar bills, and whenever that type of bill finds its way into your wallet, you automatically set it aside to put into your savings.

I decided tens would be my designated currency. For the last week I have been hording them and today when I counted them up I had sixty bucks! Woohoo! And after rolling some change I had an additional 19 bucks to throw into the pot. I just returned from depositing all of it and I feel spiffy!