Break Over
February 26th, 2009 | 8:42 pm | Posted in Finance, Motivation, Savings | 2 Comments »
Remember that list I put together when I decided to stop my automatic savings plan?
I claimed that I was “taking a break” from saving.
Yeah, it was less than a week ago.
In short, I stopped my weekly transfer into savings because my checking account was feeling drained.
That, and I also wanted to:
- Pay my latest auto insurance premium in full.
- Erase the remaining credit card balance from the baby furniture purchase back in January.
- Be financially irresponsible and feed my addiction one last time before the smurfling is born.
- Pad my checking account balance to $5000.
So here I am, less than a week later and I’ve already accomplished the first three items.
Insurance is paid, credit card balance is zero, and there are 5 new jerseys in my collection.
The crazy part is that my checking account balance doesn’t look too bad even after all of that! (This is due in part to my State Tax Refund coming in this week.)
So maybe I won’t be off the saving wagon for as long as I’d originally thought?
I think that all I really needed to do was break from the monotonous routine for a few days…
March 4th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
[...] ago, I took a break from my weekly savings transfers that were wearing me down and it was just a matter of days before I realized that that’s all I needed to re-energize myself to continue moving [...]
March 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
[...] It’s not like I drop $897.20 on auto insurance each month. And the $818 spent on hockey jerseys, as lame an excuse as it sounds, was a much needed splurge. [...]