Zero Money to Hero Money

Made it through the long weekend… and still have money left over :)

Wow what a relief, a bit of a tight one, but I made it through the long weekend, with enough money left over for a movie tomorrow night, and probably $10 to just put in savings by Friday.  I planned it fairly well, 2 rounds of golf meant taking $28 out of my budget, plus the golf balls, another $20.  I ended up having a 2nd round and playing 36 holes today, but we somehow managed to convince the course to let us play again for free, and only charge us half price for the Cart, so our greens fees went from the regular $48 with a cart, to $15 each.  Not too shabby.. it was snowing when we arrived for our first 18 so I guess they felt kind of bad.

I ended up spending my extra money where I thought I would, and where I didn’t want to.  Coffees for all the guys in the morning before golf, breakfast at golf when we got there and it was snowing (in may??) and decided to wait it out, and a couple of beers at a concert that I went to on Saturday night with my girlfriend.  All in all, I think I made my $140 budget of fun money play out pretty well for a long weekend.   2 BBQ’s, 3 rounds of golf and a concert.

On top of my extra $600 from last week coming in this week in the form of cheque, I have that event on Sunday for roughly $400, as well as another short 3-4 hour web development contract which means an additional $260 to the bank.  Woohoo!

I’ve got my yearly golf trip that I haven’t saved for on June 2-3, and a trip to Cuba that’s already been paid for on June 14th for a week with my girlfriend.  So I plan on taking $275 from the cheque this week for the golf trip, and putting the rest into the LOC and then taking $200 from the $400 for the trip to Cuba, and banking the other $200 + $260 back into the LOC.   That means an extra $750+ into the LOC, that should really help out my May goals, not to mention my 2008 10k+ additional income goal is appearing even more attainable than ever.