This week was a good week! I sold another $41.00 worth of things this week. My current total from selling my old things after shipping and fees is $182.61. I have just a few things left. Whatever is left at the end of the month is getting donated. Will I make it to my $200.00 goal? Only time will tell!
Nico had been wanting to start Karate for a while. He started the first week in February. Valentin saw how much fun he was having and wanted to join the class. When I went to pay for Valentin. I found out they where having a buy one get one free this month for all new members. I had no idea that was going on. That $60.00 saved is going straight into my Universal fund!
I took advantage of the new Ibotta bonuses. To stock up on some staples we where out of. You can read more about that here. That earned me a nice chunk of change. The cereal offer didn’t credit. I put in a help request. When that credits I will have another $13.64 from that haul. $3.64 from the cereal and $10.00 from the bonus offer. I also cashed out Fetch for a Zappos gift card. The cash from my clothing and shoe budget was swapped out for the Zappos gift card.
This week I earned/found $228.03! I have the money for the tickets now. For those I am just waiting on a good promotion to come out. Or I will buy them when we arrive. You save 15% off park tickets for up to 6 people if you are a pass holder. The new goal I am working towards is the food and spending money. I am budgeting $250.00 a day for food and souvenirs. The kids have been saving their money to spend while at Universal. It will really just be whatever souvenirs my husband or myself want. We are going to buy 4 of the quick service dining plans per day and share. My grandma will be paying for her own dining plan. That will cost me $103.96. That leaves me $146.04 a day for food and souvenirs. The quick service dining plan will cover 1 quick service meal with drink, 1 drink (which can be butterbeer), and 1 snack a day per plan purchased. We normally only eat 2 full meals out a day while traveling. Either breakfast or dinner will be sandwiches, snacks, or quick breakfast type items in the room. I really only need to earn/save $1,000.00. Since we will be gone most of week. I am planning on taking my weekly grocery budget of $250.00 and applying that towards the cost of food.
You can see my past check in’s here.
*Goal 1 was plane tickets. – DONE
*Goal 2 is the hotel. Need $1509.19 after the down payment. – DONE
*Goal 3 is park tickets – Need $1175.96 – DONE
*Goal 4 is food and spending money – Need $1250.00 have $176.38 towards this.
2/8 – 2/14
My Swagbucks – $25.00
Ibotta – $47.11
Fetch – $25.00
Rakuten – $29.92
Savings from BOGO free Karate class – $60.00
Ebay Misc. Sales – $41.00
Total to date – $4937.95
Money Spent and cash balances:
Southwest Plane Tickets for 5 – $1433.42
Universal annual pass and two 5 day tickets – $643.00 – Already spent!
Cash Remaining in my Universal fund – $2861.53
Linda says
Just keep swimming
Love reading your updated