Set but not settled

Hello fans!  It's been a while.  I've missed you ;(

Thought I'd update.  This is more a life update than a savings update, because for right now they're one in the same for me. 

At the end of August we moved in with my in-laws so that we could save money to rent a house.  We found a great one right down the street from them, put a deposit down, and now we have to save money for deposits on utilities that we've never had before.  I need roughly another $1,000 before we can move in, and that's not including cost for a truck rental/gas. 

Mr. Newbie has a new position at his same company.  The pay is different.  He gets hourly now instead of a daily rate.  Well, before his average "hourly" turned out to be close to $9 an hour.  His new ends up being more per hour, which is awesome!  He'll work slightly less hours, but because it's hourly instead of daily he'll make a little more money.  Now, here's to hoping he gets OT pay.  For his job it would be totally legal for him to not make OT.  Sucks, but it's true.  Still, it's better than being jobless... but not as good as the moving to Arizona deal would've been for us.

Now that Nana Newbie and I have gotten into the swing of living under the same roof (I honestly do love my in laws and couldn't be happier to have them!) it's time to catch up in coupon clipping and saving money!  I'm so excited!  I'm going to help Nana Newbie get her binder together and I'm going to be a clipping fool for the next week.  I have 78 inserts (not including the ones coming up for this week) that are just sitting there doing nothing and not saving me any money.  Guess the filing method doesn't work at all for me. 

Time to get cutting!

I didn't realize my last post was 2 weeks ago.  Sorry about that.

Update on my life.  We're not moving to Phoenix :(  It was definitely circumstances beyond our control, but it was circumstances that someone else could've controlled.  Before I get all angry and ranting on something doesn't belong here, I'll stop even though I want to go on.  Grrrrrrr.

Well, one of the drawbacks of the Phoenix plans was that we had to give our apartments notice of our moving out.  According to our lease they required 2 months notice.  So.... well that means we have to move and they knew we were moving about 1 1/2 months before plans fell through.  That means we're homeless until we can come up with deposits to rent somewhere else (technically in TX if you're of age and live with family or if you live in a hotel you're considered homeless).  We'll be living with my wonderful in-laws Newbie!  Hi mom and dad!  Love you guys!  Even with how much love I have for them, I'm still angry about being forced to move with them because the other situation would've been so much better for us in the long run.  Even so, I'm expecting... I should say I'm hoping... to have all deposits saved up by the end of 1 month.

I hate to add to the fact that the 18th was the 2nd anniversary of my mom's death and the 28th would've been her 66th birthday... oh and September 3rd would've been the 10th anniversary with my 1st husband had he lived.  It's been a rough month for this little Newbie.

Mr. Newbie wants to rent a house and in my in-law's area, houses cost as much as the rent we're currently paying.  I know, I know... electric and water will be more than we're paying, our credit's shot (rental credit is near perfect, though), and we'll have to put utilities in our names that we've never had in our names before.. oh and we'll have to get a lawnmower (that I'm crossing my fingers I won't have to nag Mr. Newbie to use), but having much more room will be like a dream!  I'll miss the pool so incredibly much and now PreK newbie has made friends that are his age (4, 5, and 7) this past week which will totally SUCK that we won't live near them any more, but we're working to turn lemons into at least lemon juice.

Lemonade will have to come later.