No Money Spent Today!

Today my wife and I spent ZERO dollars and ZERO cents. That's a good feeling.

I also raided different areas of our bedroom and our old car for change, and came up with $2.70! That's over a gallon of gasoline. (And it's exactly the kind of money I would have spent on cigarettes in the past.)

With any luck, I'll get paid tomorrow by work. It should probably be around $120, but with us having such little money, I'll probably have to save $100 of it and keep the other $20 for odds and ends during the week.

Still, today was a financial accomplishment.

Look at it this way- if we had a CD worth $20,000, it would generate roughly $1000 a year at 5% interest. That comes out to $2.73 a day. So today, we earned the interest we would have made on a CD worth $20,000. And we didn't spend any of it!

(Not adding $2.70 to savings total because we'll probably end up spending it.)

Total saved: $3,170.36