Thursday, March 3, 2011

March Financial Goals

Expenses I expect this month:
-We bought a new macbook pro and 2 Ipad 2s! $45mo each plus $100 for macbook. Adam needs a new one, so i'm buying a new one and giving him mine =)
-$370 for new cookware from cookworld. AWESOME stuff!!

Wedding plans this month:
-book a meeting with Fr Ted (he has our available dates)
-get guestlist uploaded to the knot (Adam....)
-book florist for real now ( I think i'm going with Pat Catans...)
-book a meeting with our cake lady ( I can't get ahold of the cheap one)
-finish invites (Molly's getting that done now :) )

For my accounts according to mint.com:
Orange is this month  Red is last month
  • PERSONAL
  • Chase (low yeild checking):  closed!!
  • Charles Schwab (high yeild checking):  $1695.21 $2346.77 up $651.56
  • Charles Schwab savings: $364.27 $364.27 same
  • PNC  $1948.80  $2049.28 up $100.48
  • PNC  $10.01 $10.01 same
  • PNC  $10.04  $10.05 up $.01
  • First Merit checking: closed!!
  • Capital One emergency: $19147.65 $16,163.12 down $2984.53
  • Capital One Savings:   $678.96 $879.15 up $200.19
  • Smartypig (our wedding fund):  $9974.44 $10974.44 up $1000
  • INVESTMENTS
  • Charles Schwab Roth IRA (5/09 opened): $9697.19  $9717.78  up $20.59 (I didn't contribute, I will this month)
  • LHS retirement account(stopped contributing 5/10, beginning april/mid march I will be): $4685.08 $4767.06 up $81.98
  • OPERS retirement account(account now closed, opened Traditional IRA 5/10): $10123.50 $10123.59 up $.09
  • Zak's Etrade savings account: $2813.31 $2840.89 up $27.58
  • Zak's CollegeAdvantage fund: $1447.85 $1472.12 up $24.27
  • MISC
  • Coupon savings this month: I'm going to change this category to ATM savings next month
  • Speedy points:   143241 143690 up 449
  • Swagbucks!:  1866 1996 up 130
  • Spending this month: We're going to start adding the ATM money.

Total gained: $951.75 :( Not much, but hopefully it will make us some $$ with ATM
Should be getting my tax refund this month and that can pay for a lot of things!! Washer and dryer, kalahari, Zachary's new bike (and mine), and his adoption (Don't want adam to drain his savings, so he will pay me back in installments, maybe it won't be as bad as we think)



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