Zero Money to Hero Money

Yikes, that golf trip was a little more than I expected…

Well I got back from my golf trip, and it was a little bit more than the $350 that I had budgetted.  I used about $80 of my spending money for the week and took $270 from some recent side income that I had made to pay for the rest.  The total ended up being closer to $450 (it was actually $440) so I took $90 out of my budget for this upcoming week, and will try to make do with about $30 until next Friday, in case I get desperate, I had another cheque for $100 from a webhosting referral but I would rather put that money into my house savings.  The trip cost extra because when we arrived, we decided we wanted to play a round of golf that day, the 2nd day instead of playing just 2 rounds, we ended up playing 3, which cost an additional $20 (unlimited golf but we had to pay for carts).  I think overall I did pretty good, spoiled myself a little too much, but that’s alright.

A week from Saturday I leave for Cuba which should be awesome, I have a lot of contract work to finish up before then.  On a plus note I was accepted to 2 photography/art shows, one in Toronto called Enlightened which will run from July 1st-July 30th, and a one night only show called The Cheaper Show in Vancouver.  Neither of them will cost me any money to show, for the Toronto one they are printing for us (on lightboxes) and handling the sales of prints, for Vancouver I am sending them 2 prints I already had done, at no cost as they are paying the shipping via FedEx.  It would be great to sell some prints at both, I could really use the extra income towards my goal of $10,000 for the year.