Money Monday Discussion Thread: Monday July 10th, 2023 - eviltoast

Hello beeple! Another week, another thread, this one kind of late 🙃. Feel free to comment below with anything and everything money related that is better suited to a conversation or a quick question and answer than a full post. Some ideas include:

  • Journaling about an ongoing job search
  • Asking for ideas about how to manage an emergency fund
  • Logging recent stock trades
  • Talking about the impact of inflation on your budget
  • Your plans for maximizing the rewards on a credit card

Again, those are just suggestions, if there’s really anything you’d like to talk about related to finance in your life, feel free to put it here.

  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.orgOPM
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    1 year ago

    Another relatively quiet week for me. I did join a gym, which based on some cancellation stories I’ve seen might as well be signing my life savings away, but I definitely don’t have anywhere in my apartment to keep a rowing machine. I’m also nearing the end of my FSA funds about 5 months earlier than I had hoped, which isn’t great but I still have some money left over in my old employer’s HSA that I need to start spending before the custodian nickel and dimes me out it.

    For my hobby account I have had some dividends come in which is nice, it means I have about 5 more dollars than I did before with a smidge more on the way.

    For my paper account, my strangle is in the green, though if I was looking short term and had been smart I would have closed it sometime last week for a few hundred in profit, which for a week at a risk of about $10k fake dollars is not so bad, but I am hoping that by looking long term I’ll be able to capture something more substantial.

  • Witch@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    My mother’s internal review went through and she not only is going back on disability, but because the decision to kick her off was a wrong decision, they’re giving her almost a year’s worth of backpay.

    Things this means:

    • We can actually move to a place without a landlord and her son living in it, giving us tenant rights and the ability to communicate with a landlord without worrying we’re going to get evicted
    • We can even afford movers
    • We might not have to go to a food bank anymore
    • We can now budget things instead of being like “okay that goes to rent, that goes to debt, and anything leftover is groceries”
    • I don’t have to hunt for a job while physically and mentally incapable of doing one right now

    I’m honestly so thrilled my head hurts.