Ok so I knew that this was an experimental budget. I never had one before and I wanted to set limits and make adjustments for the budget for next month. It's just frustrating to see how much money I just spent!
I bought books at B&N that I could not find at amazon.com, overstock.com or half.com--grand total $65.01 for 2 books! What a rip off! At least there was no shipping fee.
Then I registered to take a grad school exam next month--$210! Oh yeah and if I cancel, I only get $105 back! If I reschedule the date, I pay an additional fee.
No wonder many students do not want to continue their education, they can't afford it! So today's spending comes to $275.01 from the miscellaneous portion of my budget(which was $100). It gets better, I have to drive for 1.5 hours to get to the testing site. So the cost of driving adds to the equation.
I'm just gonna suck it up, I mean it's an investment in my future. Hopefully I can continue my education and make way more money than I am now with my new degree.
At least it's FRIDAY!
Over Budget and Frustrated
August 15th, 2008 at 03:34 pm
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Just stick without for 3 months and see if it starts working for you.
little, you might want to put in a budget item called "Unexpected Necessities that Screw up My Budget" and fund that $100 a month or whatever. But hopefully, as you continue doing budgets, the number of unexpexted necesiaties goes down. (Like I have birthday budget and I put $100 in that a month, so I have the money. But that category didn't occur to me until someones birthday came along.)