Things are looking up. I'm only $730 short in my savings account right now. Yay! Every small victory is a victory.

And after this week, I will have $144 in my SmartyPig account. I made $62.47 this week from DoorDash. Half went into the SmartyPig account and half went to bring my checking account up to the positive after paying bills. Yes, my bills for this pay period were more than I brought home, since I am no longer getting the $200 (Okay, $120 after taxes) every pay period. Sucks, but at least I still have a job and I still have a paycheck.

Fingers crossed, but I hope to have my credit on my State Farm account in July. I thought it would hit in June, but it didn't. Supposedly State Farm was giving a credit for car insurance because of COVID, since people weren't driving as much. We'll see.

More fingers crossed - July is when they start sending the refunds for the property taxes. Last year I got mine in August, but I'm hoping to get it earlier this year. More money is always a good thing and that will take care of the deficit in my savings account.

I've been busy on the home front. I cleaned my downstairs this weekend and made some headway in organizing things in my son's room (now my storage room). My office is still clean, although I have some papers I need to file still. Sold a file cabinet this week, so that money is going into the savings account. I hope to be able to make it to the bank tomorrow before it closes.

Trying to keep things clean. Which isn't always easy, but I hate doing huge cleaning sessions. It's easier to only have to do a light cleaning every week. Like the bathrooms. Maybe some vacuuming. Keep all my cleaning to a couple hours on Saturday, then I have the rest of the weekend to list things or organize things.

Good news and bad news on the debt front. I was able to pay $161.49 on my Christopher Banks card. Leaving only $181.46 left. Which should hopefully be paid off next month. Bad news is that I purchased the new filing cabinet on my Wayfair card, so that total went up $190.67. But, I did make a payment of $39.00 on that account Friday, so all in all, my debt total went down $9.82. On the 10th, I will be paying $464.48 off my debt. Woohoo!

Well, that's all for tonight. I have laundry to finish and some crocheting that needs to be done. Until next week!

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