My kids are on Spring Break this week and I'm concentrating on spending quality family time with them. As a result, I will not be posting the Walgreens, CVS or Rite Aid deals this week. I thought I'd share my favorite sites for hunting out deals with you in the mean time.
SlickDeals
A Full Cup
We Use Coupons
Hot Coupon World
Happy Deal Hunting!
Well, I must say I'm glad to put this month behind us. We got the bulk of our medical bills from a February ER trip and follow-up drs. appts. during March. This all went on our independent health insurance that had a high deductible which meant a lot of out of pocket expenses for us. There was absolutely no savings and we had to dip into our emergency fund to cover some of the medical expenses. There were also a couple of unexpected bills including a tax bill. Clearly I need to start paying closer attention to local government so I know when they create new taxes. It would've helped to have been prepared. I am so thankful for our emergency fund. I'm just ready for it to start going back up instead of down. Thankfully we will be able to replace the money we had to take out as soon as our tax refund comes in. I have listed our goals but the only thing we accomplished was a little extra on the mortgage. I am hopeful that April will prove to be a much better month for us financially.
And as frustrating as this month was, I feel really blessed that we have no debt aside from our mortgage. We've come a long way in the last year which made this month a lot easier to manage. Our new insurance went into effect which has a much lower deductible as well as costing us less per month which really helped.
1) Pay off my husband's car.
Completed in January. Yay!
2)Make monthly "car payments" into a car savings account each month.
3)Build our emergency fund up to six months of living expenses.
4) Continue our normal contributions to retirement savings.
5) Paying extra on our mortgage.
6)Save $1000 to cover all expenses for next Christmas.
7)Finally, by the end of the year, we plan to evaluate our savings plan and find a way to begin saving for college expenses.
Not there yet.
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