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This past weekend was the time for garage sales for my area. We pulled all or junk out of the basement and storage, brought it upstairs, got it set up on tables and tagged. Saturday morning came, it was raining and nobody near us had their garage door open either. I accidentally scheduled a dentist appointment that Saturday too and was going to cancel it but decided to go because I could at least get something done that day. Dentist didn’t cost me any money because I had a credit, but got some ugly news that I’ll discuss later on the blog.

When Sunday came around, the weather was still lousy and nobody had their garage doors open in the morning. By about 11:00 am there was one small one around the corner of our subdivision, they were just sitting there watching cars. We never even opened the garage door because the last thing I wanted to do was just passively sit there waiting for someone to come by.

All is not a loss though. My wife called her parents and their area has a garage sale day (my parents already had theirs) and we could haul our stuff down there to sell it in August. We’re going down there in about 1 week so we won’t have to store too much stuff in our basement waiting to get rid of it. Out of sight, out of mind is what I’m after, but the extra cash would have been nice.

On the subject of extra cash though, my wife received ALL of her paychecks in a lump sum for the last 4-5 pay periods today. She got a bit wide eyed when she looked at the pay stub we got in the mail Saturday. I told her the majority of this money must be held in savings to cover things for this summer. There is a few ways to handle this. Keep her ‘paycheck’ the same amount as if nothing changed, or her paycheck could take a slight cut to help make that money last us another month depending on how much to cut. I’m trying my best to get her more involved with the money stuff because she does not want to deal with it. The bills was one of those things I wanted her to sit down with me to look at, but because I have always just taken care of it, that’s what she expected me to do. I have to get these things paid and in the mail today though so they make it on time. Maybe next month will be better, at least the emergency fund is refunded back to 1k and the car insurance will get paid. It is nice to feel that we will make it this month after the way it started out.

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