$480.00

Today, thanks to the "third check" phenomenon that occurs occasionally when a person is paid every two weeks, we'll be able to save $480.00 towards our house. It would be more, but we're using $120.00 to pay off a bill I incurred from renting an apartment over the summer for my internship. Thus, we're basically improving our net worth by $600.00 today- not an insubstantial move in the right direction.

Once this money is added in, our "total" savings level is over $19,000.00, which was our goal for the month of September. Sister's $160.00 check should be in the mail, so the two totals should grow closer together in the next few days.

This is, if I'm not mistaken, the highest "current" total we've ever had- we were at $18,420 for a day or so but that was it. So we're excited. Our next goal is to have at least $19,750 by the end of October.

Current savings: $18,581.93

Total savings: $19,127.93