<$Monday, November 12, 2007$>
Score another one for the Emergency Fund
| I'm still here, y'all. There are plenty of reasons for my lack of posting lately, not the least of which is the food poisoning I got last week. Hoo boy, that really did a number on me. It took me all week to completely recover. I'm also participating in NaNoWriMo (you can follow my progress here), and between that and trying to finish knitting a sweater in time for my sister's birthday later this month, all of my free time is pretty much spoken for. I just got word that I'm about to receive a nice little $100 windfall. I was sitting here debating whether to throw it at my debt or use it for Christmas shopping when I remembered the hospital bills I'm sure to have soon. They had to call an ambulance for me for the food poisoning, and I'm not sure whether my OTHER trip to the emergency room after my fainting spell a few weeks ago (which I still haven't received hospital bills for, but my insurance statements assure me will cost me about $500) will use up the rest of my deductible for the ER. I've been trying to squirrel away money whenever I can to put towards that, so we won't have to cut too deeply into our emergency fund (though if this doesn't qualify as a justifiable emergency expense, I don't know what does). So this $100 will help towards that. I might have to put the debt reduction on hold a while so we can build our savings back up after the medical bills are paid; but the good news is that we're in a position where that won't hurt our ability to pay the rest of our bills or cut into our living expenses. And that's pretty cool. Labels: emergency fund, personal, saving+investing |
