August was a pretty significant month. My Sister got married. My Boyfriend bought a condo. I survived three days and nights at a music festival. I finally started my Emergency Fund. I'm looking forward to a quieter, less expensive September.
My goals were not too ambitious in August but I still managed to fail one of them. Crappy. Here are the results:
1. Establish Emergency Fund. - Success! I opened up a Savings Account at the same bank as my Checking Account and deposited $50.
2. Avoid Evil Overdraft Monster. - Success!
3. Only use in-network ATMs. - Fail. When I was home for my Sister's Wedding I had lots of unexpected expenses and no local branch of my bank to visit. The same thing happened at the music festival. All told, I went to a total of 4 out-of-network ATMS.
4. Buy Sister's Wedding Gift. - Success! And what a gift it was.
I also managed to pay my Mom debt of $100 which I wasn't expecting to do in August so that was productive. I am upset that all the expenses of the wedding means I couldn't pay my rent on time in September (it was one day late) but it happened and I'm paying it today and moving forward from my mistake.
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That's a lot of successes! You've reminded me that I still haven't done my August round-up. I'm not sure I've done as well as you have :)
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