Week 2 on the jars

Well this blizzard rages on. There have been all sorts of fender benders and a few slamming into lightposts, bringing the light standards down across the road. My friend brought her son in for hockey camp. She lives just a few KM outside of town. She hit the ditch twice on the way home. Safe and sound thank goodness.

DS1 is back at a different hockey camp (same was friend's son) than he was the previous two days. DS2 is home from an overnighter at a friend's house.

I was mock domestic goddess today, baking bread (machine), made muffins and cookies and did a bit of batch cooking for a few meals in the weeks to come.

Tonight marks the end of Week 2 on the jars. I had a fairly money quiet week; surprising given I was offwork and the money seems to slip out faster on those weeks. if I count purely the money I popped into the jars for Week 2 (and not anything leftover last week), I managed to save 32% of the jar money this week!

I am building a nice lil carryover amount in the jars, which is great because I know things will come along to eat away at that money. Literally eat away as my pantry and freezer stores slowly go down and I will need to buy some meat and produce for the coming week.

The past 9 months or so, I often would take the leftover weeky jar money and call it a snowflake and whap it down on a savings or debt target. I am holding back on that this time, though it's very tempting indeed to take it and go to the bank. I am not sure how much of a carryover I will let myself keep, if that trend continues. The budget gets modified again in June as I should be ready at that point to begin lump sum payments on the vehicle loan.

Well Happy Friday to you all, no matter what your weather may be.