Welcome to Money Mondays!

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I used to post my financial inflows and outflows on Fridays in the past but I decided to move this to Mondays instead. I normally go grocery shopping on Sundays after church. I will now post the last week’s worth of financial inflows and outflows on Monday so that I can include the weekend spending as well.

This week my financial outflows were:

$7 for a car inspection so that I could get my car registered. I think that the inspections used to be a lot more…for some reason $$13.50 is stuck in my mind. In any case I needed to get this so that I could get my car registration taken care of.

$72.01 for the actual car registration for one year. Now I don’t need to worry about this again for another year. The money came out of the Car Fund which is a sub account in my budget. I place a small amount into that account on a monthly basis and it takes care of the things we don’t think of like inspections and registrations!

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By the way, this is NOT my car…it is my dream car for after I graduate and get a job. #visualize #makeitreal.

$61.98 to order some things for a friend…for which I got reimbursed. This is a situation where I have a couple of friends who do not trust themselves to use credit cards. They have taken to giving me cash for items they wish to order online and then I place the order. This is a win for me because I get to earn the credit card cash back effectively for free, since I don’t spend any of my own money.

This week my financial inflows were:

$0.25 which I found on the ground and $10 from credit card redemptions. As always, I do not expect to get cash inflows except for my salary and I only get paid once a month.