After declaring I was gonna go out and spend some money, well, spend money I did. Then...I had a bit of a health scare, resulting in the following charges:
Urgent Care Center co-pay - $20
E.R. visit co-pay - $70
Prescriptions (including those not related to the health scare) - $20.
Grand Total = $110, which puts my total health care expenses at $180 in the PAST TWO WEEKS if you count the random $30 I owed my OBGYN.
Seriously boo to all of that. The Emergency Room is definitely a spooky place to spend your Saturday. And I don't even know if I will be charged a co-pay for my followup appointment today. Plus I went out and got some OTC things to help with my condition after the appointment. (Note that expenses today don't count towards the budget report, it's just aggravating.)
Anyway, the good news is I'm okay. And really considering opening up a Flex Spending Account since open enrollment season is coming up.
So here's where it went:
Projected/Actual
Sallie Mae - 407/407
Defaulted Student Loan - 260/260
Sprint - 74/74
Health - 60/180
Event Tickets - 60/60
Charity - 30/50
Groceries - 100/100
Clothes - 150/0
Misc. - 144/289
Booooo! Totaling everything up is scary. A lot of the miscellaneous is household stuff as I went on a kick of sprucing up our condo. But reality has set in and I'm done with shopping sprees for now. And I didn't even get any clothes!!!
I was able to earn $50 for consenting to take on another court assignment. I'm excited that these are coming in more frequently now as I definitely enjoyed spending the last $500 I earned. There may be more news in the area of additional income soonish so stay posted.
3 comments:
I would definitely open up the flex spending account. A couple years ago, we opened up one with my husband's company and only put in $400. This year, we put in $1000 and we will use all of it. Of course its pre-tax money but its really nice to have that money there for when you need to pay doctors' bills or need new contacts.
I'm glad you're okay. Do you mind me asking what you had??
It sounded serious enough to put you into ER!
Thanks! It was just pink eye but they thought it had hurt my eye in some way and I needed to see an opthamologist. Had it been during the week I could have just called one but they wanted me to see one right away.
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