Sorry, Daisy is part of the family. Unless I knew who we were giving her to and that they would take REALLY good care of her and we could see her often, there is no way she is going anywhere. She had a rough start at life, being rescued as a stray, skin and bones. She is happy here and we are happy with her here :)
Pizza is gone. For a very LONG time.
Oddly enough, I read the post about the breadmaker today! It sounds like a plan, I looked on craigslist but there are none locally, would have to drive 20+ minutes to get a $20 one. Maybe I'll get one as a gift for my birthday or Christmas (not from my little family though). If we want pizza, we usually buy a bag of english muffins, some pizza sauce and toppings and make them at home :) Homemade pizza crust sounds so good!
So, checklist for this weekend:
Car Insurance: raise deductibles, reduce coverage, try to find other discounts. We tried getting quotes from other companies, but because my husband was in an accident earlier this year, our current company gave us a "freebie" supposedly. Rates would be outrageous to switch to a new company with that on our recent record.
Phones: research options...cancel vs. keep We thought we would save money by getting a family plan. I don't feel too bad though, my parent's are paying over $200 a month for their first every "smart phones" and they can't even use them!
There will be more nights in playing Fruit Ninja and board games. No more pizza-we don't love it that much!
I'm going to print out this quote and post it around the house:
"Celebrate it like a little victory... you just beat the system ,instead of the system owning you." Is that ok with you, happy?
Also, for the gas, that usually includes at least one trip up to my parent's house, which is 60 miles round trip, per month. $240 is what we budget, we are always under, sometimes just barely. And then there is the 8 miles a day that my husband drives to drop our daughter off at school and pick her up, which happens to not coincide with our work schedules unfortunately.
For the car, we are going to pay off the credit cards and the small student loan before we look at that. We are thinking about offering her half the payment in a lump sum, but they she would be responsible for the entire payment each month (nobody would go for that). Next option would be to refinance half in my husband's name and half in her name to separate the debt. It's written in the divorce decree, so he can't get out of it. I think it's a joke, him paying that much for a car he can't even use...but that's how the legal system works.