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Holding Steady

April 18th, 2007 at 01:59 am

This month is a tough month. The semi-annual worker compensation insurance premium was due. It was about $500 less than I had earlier estimated, which I was happy about, but we still had to pay quite a chunk. Estimated quarterly taxes were due. And it was also time to buy more homeschooling curriculum, which ended up being more costly than usual. Also, I received our first garbage bill at our new residence. The garbage bill is for this past quarter plus the next quarter in advance, and it is about $300. That's almost four times more than the garbage rate in our previous town. Yikes.

The good news is that I haven't had to pull out any money from the savings account to pay for anything so far. I wish we could add to the savings, but that probably won't happen in the near future as we need to get some dental work done.

4 Responses to “Holding Steady”

  1. Fern Says:
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    Do you have the option of getting a sticker and bringing your trash to the dump? (aka, refuse station)?

    I save a lot of money by doing that plus i'm not restricted to just 2 cans of garbage, like i was when i paid a service to pick it up.

  2. daybyday Says:
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    Unfortunately the dump fee here has gone way up so, along with the cost of fuel for the truck and our time, we calculated that that option is not worth the trouble. I guess I just better get used to the new cost. Oh well.

  3. Fern Says:
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    I pay $80 a year for the sticker, much higher than most other towns here, but i still think it's worth it.

  4. daybyday Says:
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    That is a very good price. It does sound worth it!

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