I’m a Texas gal. Texas is NOT supposed to get cold…or not very cold. The past 3 days though…it’s been freezing! Now, I know everyone else is going to think I’m nuts for whining about the weather (considering its only 15 degrees out), but it’s been too cold for me! I usually go skiing in New Mexico, but with the wind and temps lately, I feel as though I’m on top of a mountain!
Work has been crazy because of the weather. You see, my office is in a portable building outside of the high school, and has a gate around it. The gate always gets locked at the end of the night (so that no one will mess with my portable, the other portable, and the greenhouse) and because of the weather, the lock has frozen! I cancelled after school for the kids yesterday because I couldn’t even get in my office, but I couldn’t do that again today. Did a little complaining/troubleshooting to the assitant principal and she ended up having a janitor cut the lock off the gate! Then, once school finally let out and the kids were coming in for our after school program (which we hold in the cafeteria), we found out that the main water pipe for the school burst in the kitchen part of the cafeteria! Needless to say, I’m glad I’m home from work now.
In wedding news, today marks 10 months until we get married!!! I’m really happy. The other day I even took out money I had in my account and put $4,000 into our wedding savings!
Our wedding savings is a small accordian folder that we have in our safe in the house. Each section of the accordian is labeled for something like “wedding attire”, “cake”, “reception”, “honeymoon”…etc. It’s working really well and is helping us save faster because it’s not just laying in a bank account.
Do any of you have methods you use for saving for your wedding?
Lexi says
This is an awesome idea! My idea of “saving” is a term that I’ll use VERY loosely.
I was doing really good at putting money into my savings. I built up a pretty good balance and now, instead of dipping into the savings when bills come along, I have decided to pay for things a little at a time with my paycheck every month. I haven’t put money in savings lately, but I have also not taken money out. Like I said, not exactly “saving” for the wedding, but spreading the costs along the way has been VERY helpful!!!
TriGirl says
What a pain about the weather. I used to live in Texas and it was always a mess when the thermometer dropped below zero…come to think of it, I now live in the Pacific Northwest and the city shuts down here too when it snows.
Saying I do says
I’m with Lexi..we’ve been spreading out costs along the way too and it has been helpful. Chris and I opened a joint ING Account that links directly to each of our individual bank accounts. From our accounts, we each transfer a set amount of money each month into this ING Account labeled “wedding fund”. When the economy was good, the ING account earned you about 4% or 5% interest each month…now I think it’s at like 1$ or something small like that..but it’s something! We get at least a few extra bucks each month just from holding our savings with them!
Saying I do says
whoops, I meant 1% (percent, not one dollar)