Week #5 - Days Late & Dollars Short!

OK, I'm sorry that the week #5 blog is late. It should have been out last Friday and I'm actually writing this on Monday morning. I was hoping to get some money to actually talk about, but I'm still out of work from my gallbladder surgery and I haven't gotten any of my temporary disability money yet. Actually they said that I might not get anything for another couple of weeks so it could get messy when it comes time to pay my bills (mortgage & credit card) for February!

All that I can really add to the blog for this week is that I did add $20 to my Vacation Savings account. I think that this is important because even though I have had no income for a couple of weeks I still pushed to add that money to my vacation savings. There are a million excuses NOT to save money and as soon as you skip one week it becomes easier and easier to skip more and more weeks. I have been putting aside $20 per week for a future vacation for over a year and a half now and I know if I had skipped one week over the last year it would have been very easy to skip this week and probably the next few weeks where I'll have no income money either.
The only other savings related thing I did last week was cash in some more deposit cans and get another $6.10 to put in the piggy bank.

So let me give you the week 5 wrap up:
$0 to my 401K (because I got no paycheck)
$20 to my vacation fund
$6.10 in the piggy bank

which makes the 2013 totals...
$165.07 in my 401K
$100 in the vacation fund
$15.15 in the piggy bank

That's about it for this week. I'm sorry its not as exciting as I had promised a few weeks ago, but I swear there will be some more serious money saved starting sometime in the next month or two. If nothing else you can look at the totals and see that even though I have been struggling with money because of a credit card bill from Christmas and some lost income from missing work after a surgery, I have still managed to save $115.15 in cash, plus adding $165.07 to my retirement fund. 

Have you managed to put away any money so far this year? I want to hear about your saving goals what you have managed to do so far this year so please comment and pass the link around to your friends & family. 

See you on Friday with our without a paycheck!