I crossed a double yellow line in a small town last weekend. My mistake will cost me one point, which may not appear on my record, and $80.37. The 37 cents is for postage. I got the ticket out of state. The town sheriff was kind enough not to ticket me for speeding since I was obviously just trying to pass someone. Haste makes waste, kids. No frickin’ kidding. Too bad cruise control doesn’t operate for speeds below 30mph, which is when I need it most of all apparently.
I bumped up the Save-O-Meter too. My goal is in sight. I stand at 84.99% which I thought I could get away with rounding up. I should explain how I’ve saved that money because it’s kind of strangely allocated. I have a chunk of it in an out-state credit union savings account earning little interest. I transferred money out of my ING account to buy a CD at a local bank that advertised a good rate. The remaining money is at ING Direct in short term CD’s and savings account. I can’t tell you how glad I am that I am saving money with ING. Three out of the last five months I’ve been able to sock away over 10% of my gross income into additional savings. That’s what a Save-O-Meter is for.
I am very happy because my ING CD’s allow me to receive an interest disbursement monthly into my regular savings account, rather than receive all of it at the end when the CD expires. I am quite glad about this since I keep the disbursement in my savings account and where the interest compounds! ALWAYS, ALWAYS let interest compound. If you don’t take the disbursement, you can’t make interest on it and why pass up on that opportunity.
I’m not fancy schmancy like other PF Bloggers out there. I have no idea how to make a nice little clickable link for you to get a referral. On the eve of my holiday, I’m not about to figure it out. If you would like an ING Direct referral for opening an account, please email me at mapgirlsfiscalchallenge *at* Google’s mail service. But understand that I might not be able to send you one until after the Memorial Day holiday.
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I hope your check makes it with only a 37 cent stamp
Thanks for the comment on my blog about different sorts of PFBloggers. I am pretty clueless on the ad thing. I thought I signed up for AdSense but nothing happened. Can’t be bothered to pursue it as I don’t get the idea that it would bring in much money and those little Google ads are ugly I think.
My blog is a space for me to think and discuss with commenters and try to keep myself disciplined
You probably did sign up but now you have to place the advertisement code on your blog. I have no time now to offer to help, but remind me after the holiday weekend and I can point to you to some help.
Like Udandi said, it’ll cost you an extra $0.02 to take care of postage.
Geez. I don’t even pay attention to that. I buy the stamp books so I forget how much a single stamp costs. My my. They say the memory is the first thing to go…