disney fund update....

it's been such a crazy month that i've forgotten to update my disney fund. here's my deposits since my last posting about it:
9/28 - $30.44 - leftover cash from our monthly budget areas
10/3 - $5 - for being a neilsen digital voice participant
10/19 - $11.12 - leftover cash from our grocery budget
10/19 - $60 - from toluna surveys
10/25 - $30 - for being a neilsen tv family this week. i love being a neilsen family.

so that brings our grand total up to $338.98. as i say each time, this is all from couponing, budgeting, and doing some surveys and fun stuff online.

on another note, i'm thinking of starting another blog on my passion, saving money. it feels so good when people say i should teach a couponing class. i would love to share my knowledge, tips, and hints with the world. there's so many savings sites out there, so i'm gonna think long and hard how to differenciate it from others.

quick post....

i've had a super busy week. i took a couple days off last week to go home for the holiday weekend. it was a nice trip. i feel like i slept for 2 days straight.

i did make a deposit to our disney fund. $42.02... $20 left out of my birthday money. i used the rest to start my thirty-one business. and the rest from leftover grocery budget money. total $202.42. long way to go, but i'm getting there :) plus if i make any influence on people to budget, coupon, save money, etc. i'm doing pretty good. wink wink jill.

disney fund...

i'm getting our september budget set up and have $11.10 leftover from our personal, house, pets, and eating out budgets from august. i'll have another deposit tomorrow or tuesday when i see how much we have left from our grocery budget for august. it's going slow, but $160.40 in a little over a money in money we don't miss. that's pretty good. couponing and smart shopping pays off.

busy busy...

that how i feel these days. i feeled pulled in so many directions and just can't get it all done. i was going to create a blog for my 31 stuff, but i have enough trouble keeping up with my own blog. i think i'll just post on here about it. so here's the august customer and hostess specials if anyone wants to order or have a party:


you can shop online anytime at my website, samantha's 31. check it out. super cute stuff!

on another note, i got a $40 check for doing some surveys. so $149.30 in the disney fund now. yay! my mean ol parents are going back next month without me. :( better bring me back some park 4 and have a laugh vinyls.

disney fund and thirty-one....

that almost rhymes :). anyways, i have a couple of things to write about today. i'm adding to our disney fund, $21.38 leftover from our grocery budget and $45 from opinion outpost surveys. $109.30 saved in a month. slow start i know, but i've got other survey checks coming and hopefully i'll have a bigger deposit at the end of the month.

on another note, i'm officially a thirty-one consultant now. yay! i didn't know this company existed until my favorite blog, couponing to disney, did a giveaway of one of their items. well, i looked up the site, fell in love with the products, and signed up. didn't happen that quick. i researched it all last week. the company name comes from proverbs 31:31. i love that. i'm hopefully going to set up a seperate blog sometime this week to keep up with my progress.

my last few posts have been weird and vague and upset and so on. but things seem to be looking up now. it's just hard for me to accept God's plans are not necessarily my plans. i see things falling into place now. i really feel like i was led to thirty-one, so that will hopefully help this year since david's assistanceship was not renewed. he'll defend his dissertation this fall, give his recital in the spring, and graduate may 2011. finally! :) he'll be dr. after all these years. it's been tough, but i gotta keep faith that everything will fall into place.

disney fund deposit....

so i wrapped up july's grocery budget cash today. i had $26.69 leftover to put into the disney fund. grand total as of today, $42.92. it's a start. plus, it's not any extra money coming out of our budget. this is just savings from couponing and smart shopping. hopefully, i'll have a good increase to post in a couple weeks. i gotta requests my survey site checks for july. i got a pretty good balance in two of them.

disney fund, the beginning...

i've been saying for the longest time i was going to start a disney fund ever since i stumbled upon couponing to disney. so i officially started it this week. i put a ticker at the bottom of the blog to track my progress. the first deposit - $16.23, leftover money from our grocery budget from the past two weeks. i don't even know when we'll go next year, but we really want to since it'll be the magic kingdom's 40th anniversary. i figure they'll do something special for the year. what am i saying, disney always does something special. i'm a disney dork, i know.