July Budget

Here is the July spending plan: Feel free to throw your questions at us if you have any...

Guest Post: General Budgeting Tips in and Around The Home

Budgeting tips, make your money go further by comparing outgoing on line such as car insurance, home insurance etc. General budgeting tips in and around the home Setting a budget and sticking to it is something many of us struggle with. The bills – which cover everything from mortgage repayments, food, utilities, entertainment, car insurance to home and contents insurance – come thick and fast...

Updated Budget

Jordan and I have had a few pretty big changes lately, so I thought it was time to update our budget.  While we aren't sure exactly what Jordan's raise is going to look like, we know on the low end what is salary increase is going to look like. I also recently sold my horse - so we no longer have...

Mid-June Monthly Check In

Jordan and I set a pretty lofty goal for ourselves in terms of spending only in the gas and groceries categories for the month of June (less the wedding).  We haven't quite stuck to that - but I wanted to do a pulse check before the end of the month so we don't slide to far off the tracks. As...

Starlight

Star Light Star bright,The first star I see tonight,I wish I may, I wish I might,Have the wish I wish tonight. Those that have followed this blog for a while, know that I have a horse, Starlight.  I've had her since I was 12 and she was 2 - I'm now 26.  I've known for the last few years that...

Credit Cards of Doom

That's right, I said credit cardssss... plural. I've been hinting in a few posts lately that our credit card was creeping up with a higher and higher balance.  Now that we are finished making our last two largest purchases (flights to vegas and wedding bands) - I thought it was time to share where...

Wedding Ring

This weekend, among many other things that got done, we bought our wedding bands.  While we bought my engagement ring at Spence Diamonds, we found the bands at Michael Hill.  They had the best price for the ring that suited the engagement ring the best! Before we stopped into Michael Hill...

House Fund = 100%

Yesterday I shared our plan for the house fund and that we had reached our goal with time to spare!  I'm pretty excited about that...for all of the obvious reasons AND it means that I get to re-arrange the goal trackers on my blog again...and maybe the colors too.  I'm feeling a need for chan...

Final Deposit Payment

Today is the day that our new home builder Sable, will deposit the last of our 5% down payment for our new home purchase.  We were given the option when we purchased our new home to pay the 5% upfront or to break it into four payments.  After a quick conversation we decided that...

Jordan's Income Potential

Yesterday I shared with you that Jordan will be getting a job promotion within the next couple of weeks.  I took the potential for his gross salary and broke it down based on current pay stubs and the Canada Revenue Agency's payroll calculator to get a close guesstimate of his potential net take...

Jordan is Getting Promoted

Jordan called me yesterday at work with some very exciting news!  After working at his truck/trailer rental company for the last three years as the Parts Supervisor, he is being promoted to the Repair Dispatch Manager.   This promotion will open a lot of doors for growth within his company.  With this transition he'll now have two to three people reporting to him as well as a variety...

I love June

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Suits: Check

Jordan, his best man, and his groomsman went suit shopping this weekend.  It was their second trip and they found everything they needed!  The guys wound up with a dark charcoal suit, white french cuff shirts, purple ties, and purple cuff links! They went to a variety of different...

New Page

Just a quick note... I added another page to the blog called Found Recipes Like dialogging the books that I've read/am reading I thought this would be another fun way to write and share.  So if you have any recipes you'd like to share with me and the readers of this blog, feel free to email them to me and I'll post th...

Architectural Controls

I mentioned Architectural Controls briefly a few weeks ago and had mentioned that it was one of the final pieces of the puzzle that we were waiting on before we could finalize everything with the house.  We were told to budget approximatively $2,000. The final...