save more money

This I am doing!

The possibility of me moving out is becoming more real… every 2 weeks that I make a deposit to my savings!! I’ve been spending much less money on a weekly basis lately than I have in a long time. I feel so much less wasteful and so much more productive. My life holds more purpose…. I feel like I have a REASON to save money now- like I have plenty of hope for a better life to come about.

Made a $560 deposit to my savings account today!!

I’m making another deposit on Monday! Oh yes! I’m also going to start working 5 hours overtime each week… because the sooner I am financially ready to move into my own place… the BETTER!

For the last 2 years I’ve saved very little money… because, before, my life held no purpose… therefore I had no goals to work towards. Since my life held little meaning and I felt I had little possibility for growth in my future… I blew my money. I felt trapped living with my parents. Well – now I’ve finally found reason to save money… reason to improve myself in so many ways.

I had moved away from God, therefore I could no longer be blessed. I put myself in a horrible position. Luckily, God is gracious. I prayed for Him to pull me out of it earnestly, made a list of all the things I needed to change in my life in order to grow and find meaning in my life again… A couple of days later He brought a wonderful man to me.

Through that man and the short-lived relationship we had, God has shaken me up and given me a new purpose, a new focal point of ambition and a goal to build upon, to continue to move forward: my goal is to become the kind of woman who can be great for a man and my future family, as a wife and a mother. My biggest fear, for most of my life, has been turning out just like my emotionally and psychologically abusive mother. God used my relationship with David to show me how much I really need to change before I could truly be uplifting and good for a man in that type of a love relationship. It hurt tremendously to lose him.. and to realize the negative effect I had on him in some ways, but I realize more than ever how important it is for me to work on improving myself in many areas… so that love will be more of a possiblity as something being successful in my life.

Now, I’m focused on saving at least 75% of my monthly earnings each month… so that in about a year… I’ll finally feel ready enough financially to move out and support myself as I continue working and going to school part time.

Pay day was today…. and next week, the first chance I have to step away from the office… I WILL be depositing the majority of this paycheck into my savings account. I HAVE to save right now, especially, as I prepare to move out on my own. I’ve been practicing self control lately by not giving into nearly as many urges to go get coffee, go out to eat, buy clothes, spend money in general, when it’s not really neccessary. Too bad I know I need to spend around $450 soon to get three fan belts and a water pump in my car replaced. UGH. I guess I should go ahead and get that out of the way or I could end up having to spend even more than I would have to!

WOW – I am doing so much better in this area. It’s easier for me to save money now because I have more direction for my life… and I am working towards moving out very soon. I’m serious this time and know that having a savings to back me up in cases of emergency is extremely important.

I’ve noticed that the more money I’ve given to the ministry and to my church… the more God has provided for me, not only financially, but in all other areas of my life also… and this is just in a matter of about 5 months! God is amazing. Thank you Lord.

I am being a lot more frugal lately. It feels good to know that I’m not wasting my money as much and to know that every day I’m one step closer to supporting myself well, when I do finally move out. I plan on moving at least $400, at each pay period, to my savings account from now on. I also plan on tithing 10% of my monthly earnings from now on… I know that God will bless me, whether it be financially or in intangible ways, for my faithfulness in supporting my church’s ministry.

I’ve begun to save again… this time I’m going to keep it up and not randomly go on shopping sprees that mess everything up. I’m about to start tithing again since I found a new church to go to too, so I know God will bless my life more abundantly for giving to the church – what He demands that we do… what really belongs to Him anyway. He will bless me for this, I have faith. I’ve seen it happen before and don’t know why I ever stopped.

I deposited $300.00 into my savings account last week. It’s been a while since I’ve done that. Though it’s also been even longer since I’ve taken any money out of it… which is definitely a good thing. It’s time to start saving money again. It was harder to do so around Christmas time, but I no longer have a good enough excuse to not save… so here I go!