Green Panda Treehouse

Working Student’s View of Personal Finance and Frugal Living

Archive for the ‘Savings’

July 2008: Progress Update

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Photo Credit: ivanx Half the year has past I feel like I want to stray off my financial course. Being semi-responsible for a ‘long’ time is making want to take the money I sock away and just spend it. Has [...]

Welcome Alpha Consumer Readers!

Photo Credit: by alborzshawn Welcome! If you’re visiting from US News’ AlphanConsumer, thank you for visiting my blog. The post was inspired by my last 2 apartments. Here’s an overview of some of my most popular posts to get started: Banking Does Your Bank Care About Online Banking Security? Another Reason Why I Hate Bank of America Make Banks Treat You [...]

Weekly Round Up: Washer and Dryer Edition

Photo Credit: A Princess Yesterday my husband and I got a washer and dryer for the apartment. The total cost was around $190. We got the pair from Craigslist for $150. We asked a friend if we could borrow his truck and we paid $20 to cover using his gasoline. The gentleman who sold the washer [...]

Rebuilding An Emergency Fund

Photo Credit:  babasteve I used some of my emergency fund to help with the moving expenses. Let me explain. I got a job opportunity offered that would give me: A slight raise More flextime Less stress A reason to move to an area with a lower cost of living Sounds good, doesn’t it? The catch was we had to move out [...]

5th Paycheck of the Month!

Photo Credit: bnhsu There are 5 Fridays in March, so I got an “extra” paycheck this month. How will I spend it? 54% will go towards my emergency fund/snowflake account (I’m also putting my extra car payments here) 18% will go to my IRA 14% will go for gasoline for the week 5% will go towards eating out (so far [...]