{"id":625,"date":"2017-01-02T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2018-01-11T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:42:33","slug":"uber-frugal-month-challenge-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Uber Frugal Month 2017: Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a semi-serious New Year&#8217;s Resolution (and both of us looking for new jobs), we thought we&#8217;d attempt the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frugalwoods.com\/2016\/12\/19\/uber-frugal-month-the-ultimate-guide-to-saving-more-money-than-you-ever-thought-possible\/\">Uber Frugal Month by Mrs. Frugalwoods<\/a>. It&#8217;s more me wanting to do this, I manage all of the finances, but\u00a0Eli is also on board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz&#8217;s suggestion for today is: &#8220;<span class=\"s1\">be bold and write down where you want to be in 10 years, in 20 years, in 40 years\u2026 you get the picture. And then, put that piece of paper in your wallet.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 years&#8230; I want to have fully paid off our mortgage (by the end of 2017) and have enough investment income that I don&#8217;t have to work unless I want to. KK will be pretty much all grown up, and I want KK to have the money skills that are needed for life.<\/li>\n<li>20 years&#8230; I think I&#8217;ll be having a mid-life crisis by then. It&#8217;s almost as much time as I have been alive, and I&#8217;m not sure what I want to achieve in this next part.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eli has been seriously unhelpful with these questions. She just &#8216;wants to be alive&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I had a frugal fail today. I had a free voucher for a swim at our local pool, but it expired on the 31st of December! So it cost us $17.40 for a swim at our local pool (two concessions and a child).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>January&#8217;s running expenses (and a catalogue of posts in this series so far):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=623\">None<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">swim -$17.40, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">PayPal payment for Lego\u00a0sale\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">$69.40<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a semi-serious New Year&#8217;s Resolution (and both of us looking for new jobs), we thought we&#8217;d attempt the\u00a0Uber Frugal Month by Mrs.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=625\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber Frugal Month 2017: Day 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9,67],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nzXS-a5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":695,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=695","url_meta":{"origin":625,"position":0},"title":"Uber Frugal Month 2018 - Day 2","date":"January 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my second attempt at an Uber Frugal Month. 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