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sabrina

has filed her first fafsa ever, go her!



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How I did it
How to donate more to charity
It took me
365 days
It made me

How I did it: I set a goal for a set percentage of my income this year to be donated to charity, and so I sent out chunks through the year for various organizations.  The only real gotcha is that I am on so many snail mail pleading lists now, it makes me sort of sad because I can't give to everyone and I wish they would quit wasting their money mailing me.  I give to everyone online anyways...their budgets would be better served if they had a… Read how I did it…

Dec 15, 04:48PM PST | 0 comments


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own a kitchenaid mixer (read all 5 entries…)
Well, that sucks. 4 months ago

So the KitchenAid Experience store is in Greenville, OH. I go to an annual group gathering that meets in various sites around Ohio every spring, and the last time it was in Greenville was about 4 years ago and I decided then that I wanted to get a KitchenAid mixer there next time we went back. So that’s been the plan for a while. This year the gathering’s back in Greenville. Which is naturally why I signed up for a Saturday biology class, meaning I’d have to blow off a day of class to go… and then my professor redid the syllabus so now there’s a super important test that day that I can’t miss so now I can’t go at all!

I know I could just get one in the store but I am so mad about this. The KitchenAid store has a little outlet shop in the basement with everything in 40,000,000 different colors and all the accessories and you can look at everything all in one spot and dude, seriously, 4 YEARS I HAVE BEEN WAITING, and now I can’t go because this guy can’t write a test or a syllabus.

(Yeah, I could just go, but it’s a 6 hour drive and there is not really that much to Greenville—there’s just not much point to going there just for one store, you know?)

Grrarararrarrrarrararhghghghhhhhhghh!!!

Feb 16, 09:55AM PST | 0 comments


Max out my 401(k) in 2009 (read all 2 entries…)
Ha. 4 months ago

I forgot to re-adjust my withholdings at the end of last year. Since I had changed my withholdings in January of that year, to start out maxing them then for the very first time ever (!), they were actually much higher than $15,500/24 paychecks. Since I haven’t adjusted them yet, they actually work out to $16474.56 right now… so I need to change them to take up that extra $25 to max them this year. Convenient that I don’t have to make a huge adjustment for my remaining 20 paychecks! :)

Feb 16, 09:48AM PST | 0 comments


save 3 months salary (read all 5 entries…)
Slow progress 4 months ago

As soon as I get my tax refund, I’ll be just over halfway there to achieving this goal!

Seems like this process has been a whole two steps forward, one step back sort of deal, where I get some money put aside but then I dip into it for one thing or another. Most recently, I took a vacation. But it was my first vacation in five years, so I can’t really feel bad about it. (Actually I feel pretty good about it. It was great! :) But I’ll continue saving up for this and I hope to have at least like 6500 if not more by the end of this year.

Feb 16, 09:44AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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