{"id":2797,"date":"2011-03-31T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2011-03-31T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:50:51","slug":"and-another-thing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"…and another thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Related to my March update<\/a>: because I’m the kind of organized nerd who plans my 101 Things projects for the upcoming month, I’ve decided that one of my April tasks will be #19, spend only cash for a month and see if my budget changes<\/em>. I kept putting this off because I was waiting for a ‘normal month’ to happen, i.e. one in which we weren’t traveling or doing anything different than usual. Then I realized that was kind of silly, and that a normal month often does include some kind of travel. So I’m going with it.<\/p>\n

Though we’re going to LA at the end of April, we’re also spending an entire weekend doing trivia and mostly trapped in the house. I figure that spending should sort of balance out, right? Anyway,\u00a0I’m setting up some ground rules for this.<\/p>\n

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  1. It only applies to my discretionary spending, because our rent, bills, savings, and investments are set, and I keep all that money in a separate account. I have $500 per bi-monthly paycheck that goes into my Schwab checking account, so that’ll be the source of my cash. This isn’t entirely play money, though, because I use it for things like groceries, too.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m not going to try to track where the cash goes, because that’s part of the challenge. I keep track of my finances in Mint.com every day, so this will be a good experiment to see how well I handle something that’s fairly uncontrolled, and whether I become more or less likely to spend.<\/li>\n
  3. I’m going to use my debit card to take money out $100 at a time, instead of all of it at once. That’s because I want to be able to buy things online if necessary, and in that case I’ll transfer the money out of the account so it’s not available. Same as spending cash.<\/li>\n
  4. If I run out of cash, I’m not going to go panhandle by a freeway exit. I’ll think about it, though.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In non-obsessive-list-making-related news, here are some other things that have been going on! I had to actually sit and think about it, because work is so busy it makes my brain cloudy.<\/p>\n

    – Our save-the-dates are in the mail today!! There was a lot of other work we had to do to get to this point, and I will tell you about that next week after people receive them.<\/p>\n

    – My San Diego photos<\/a> are published. We had such a great time there, and I got to have lunch with April!<\/p>\n

    – I’m nerdblogging about .NET. More on that when it’s all official, but it could be a pretty exciting opportunity.<\/p>\n

    – There’s been some production issues with the company who makes replacement rollers for my press, so I’m still waiting on that. It’s pretty much the last thing I need to be able to test it, and I’m very impatient! I’m going to investigate the possibility of getting composite instead of rubber rollers, perhaps.<\/p>\n

    – Opening day(s) plus the NCAA tournament this weekend?? One of the best sports times of the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Related to my March update: because I’m the kind of organized nerd who plans my 101 Things projects for the upcoming month, I’ve decided that one of my April tasks will be #19, spend only cash for a month and see if my budget changes. I kept putting this off because I was waiting for …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[60,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101-things-in-1001-days","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-J7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}