Week #3 - Friday January 18th

Let me say right off the bat that this is a VERY slow week in the world that is my OCD budgeting. Like I mentioned in an earlier post I have a set up that dictates what I do with each paycheck and last weeks check and this weeks check both go toward paying my mortgage. Wait until the next paycheck comes in though, that's the one that will get split between at least 2-3 different accounts! I promise you.... shit is about to get real!

So... this weeks paycheck is for the same exact amount as last week, $602.79 and all of it will go into my 'mortgage' account. This week I will also schedule the mortgage payment to be deducted from that account sometime in the last week of the month, maybe around the 29th. This week there was another $38.26 taken out pretax and put into my 401K account.

The only other thing that I did this week in the realm of saving was my usual $20 transfer from my regular checking account into my vacation saving account. I still have some more deposit cans at work and a few more at home that need to be returned, but I will probably wait a couple of weeks before I do that again.

This weeks savings were....$38.26 in my 401K
$20 in the vacation fund

which makes the 2013 totals...
$126.81 in my 401K
$60 in the vacation find
$9.05 in the piggy bank

I also want to tell you that there could be some disruption to my budgeting schedule, which upsets me! I have to have my gallbladder taken out next Tuesday and will be out of work for at least 2 weeks. I will be getting paid through a temporary disability insurance which will give me a % of my normal 40 hour paycheck, but I'm not sure what days those checks will come in the mail. I'm also not sure how much money each check will be for so my saving might be stunted for a few weeks! In true OCD fashion I wont deposit those checks until the day they should have gone in (or as soon as I get them if they are late). I will keep updating the blog as money is deposited, but it might not be every Friday for the next 2-3 weeks.

As this weeks added bonus I present to you the little yellow paper that I use to keep track of my 'vacation transfers'. It's a trimmed down post-it-note that I keep in my checkbook. It has the date of a bunch of Fridays written down the side and they are separated in sections of 5 dates (which would equal $100 per section). I just write in '$20' next to the date after I make the transfer each week..... I told you I was crazy!