So its week #40 today's pay date is October 4th and I will be going on vacation soon. We leave for Florida on October 20th and will be there for a week returning on October 27th. It is mostly paid for and we got some great help from friends that go to Disney regularly for family vacations. We are staying at an 'In The Park' hotel and we got a meal plan for free that should cover most of the food we will need for the week. Now all that being said, it is still damn expensive to go to Disney World and I can't believe that some families do it every year or even more than once per year. If I hadn't started doing the $20 a week vacation fund a few years ago this would have been a pretty big stress to pay for.
Things will get screwy around the time of my vacation because I'll be away for 1 of the Fridays which probably means no blog but the way that my job issues paychecks for vacation weeks is odd. We actually get paid in advance of a vacation. The rational is that you might need/want the money for your vacation, but as a saver I see the negative being if I spend this check on my vacation then I have no paycheck to pay my bills when I get back from vacation. Usually what I do is I set the check aside and don't do anything with it until the actual date that I would have gotten it if I hadn't gone on vacation.
So this is the first week of the month which means that my whole check will go into my regular checking account to pay for my monthly bills and gas. I got a check for $608.45 and $38.76 went to my 401K. My check is about $5 short because I was 22 minutes late one day and god forbid a multi national billion dollar corporation give me 1 free pass for being late. I also did my usual $20 vacation transfer which at this point is mostly being saved for a vacation next year. Here is the wrap up....
Here is the week 40 wrap up:
$38.76 to my 401K
$20.00 to my vacation fund
Which makes the 2013 totals:
$1373.18 in my 401K
$800.00 in the vacation fund
$85.90 in the piggy bank
$500.00 in the quarterly loan payment account
$200.00 in my vet bill savings
$2027.41 in my money market
$1477.40 in my car account
AH off to Florida! We've done Disney when the kids were young, it really was pretty awesome! The meal plan helped a LOT and was actually a pretty good deal for us (and LESS to deal with when at Disney with two small kids is GOLD!! You just want to let the trip run itself... have a BLAST!
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