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Vacation Update

August 3rd, 2011 at 05:56 pm

I’ve barely been here 24 hours and already I’m starting to see the savings. I will admit I’m spending a little more than usual eating out but then again it’s already in the budget. I get paid again this Friday so it looks like I may be able to pay for this trip out of take home pay. Stay tuned. I will admit I am going shopping for yet another outfit. I need something all white which I don’t have. It will however be the only outfit I buy because I’m so close to the weight limit with my luggage and I don’t want to pay an extra $19 if I’m over.

I did use a credit card for my car rental but that’s customary since you have to hold the cost of the rental plus a deposit. I still have enough to pay for that cash. I budgeted $91 for parking because I researched the cost at the hotel's website for the week but it looks like it will only come to $45.50. That’s exactly half since I’m choosing to park myself. The other $45.50 I will use to pay down my Macy’s. Which brings me to update you on what’s going on with Macy’s. At the present moment my Macy’s balance is…$458.83 which is a far cry from the $292 and some odd cents I reported in last week’s blog. It’s still in my budget to afford. However, I decided to return two dresses and three bras that I don’t need. That’s a total of $192.58 in returns. It does bring my total down to $260.31, more than $30 less than the original budget.

My cousin is getting married next week but it looks like I have enough to pay for a dress I’ll need out of take home pay. I still have my vacation budget available to use before I transfer that to my emergency savings. I have another cousin getting married in September but guess what? I’ll be wearing the same dress since my two cousins are on opposite sides of the family and no one will know except my sister. Then again it’s not like I’d care if anyone did. If not I can still use either dresses I bought from two of my cousins weddings from 2008 and 2010. I would have worn the same dress to my cousins wedding last year but they are brother and sister so I wanted to switch it up a bit. Sister got married in ’08 and brother got married in ’10. I did recycle the shoes I wore in the 2008 wedding last year back when I was a bridesmaid for my cousin. She noticed and was totally flattered that I found a way to re-purpose the shoes she bought me. I’ll have to update you on my vacation budget progress next week since I’ll have a clearer understanding on the financial matters of this trip.