Mistake
I made a serious money mistake this week. I changed the primary account attached to my PayPal account from my checking to my savings thinking that the change also updated my backup funding. It did not. Two large transactions went though that should have been deducted from my savings but hit my checking instead. One of which was the deposit on our new apartment. Thankfully, the recipient of the payments aren’t privy to the mistake and nothing ‘bounced’, the fees are not pretty. The fees pretty much make me sick. The fees are equal to one of my husband’s overtime shifts. Going to cry now.

November 18 thru 24
My husband and I spent the weekend in Texas, but I won’t bore you with the details of our spending. I will mention that we stopped at the Tanger Outlets and they.were.awesome. $250 food, travel, spending money $263 Le Creuset $83 Columbia $21 Victoria’s Secret Now we’re back to the grind and hunkered down till next payday. $153 grocery $26 Applebees $26 liquor store (It’s the holidays. A girl needs her egg nog.)

Oprah’s O List – Custom Gift Cards
When there’s someone that’s difficult to shop for on my list, I always default to gift cards. I like that they can then go out and buy themselves something that they normally wouldn’t or have a nice evening out on the town, but I always feel a bit guilty because they aren’t as personal as a gift. This year, I won’t feel so bad with custom photo gift cards from GiftCardLab, especially since they are on

November 18
$39 Staples $31 Costco $34 Sprint – husband’s cell $25 Best Buy $38 Old Navy $86 DSW $21 Hobby lobby I convinced my husband to do a ton of running around with me last night – I prefer to have company, and someone to carry everything in. He got new shoes and socks out of the deal and I got groceries and supplies for the Christmas gift baskets I’m planning. We also recycled some ink cartridges and picked up some office supplies – woohoo.

An Introduction to Sponsored Tweets
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Sponsored Tweets. All opinions are 100% mine. It seems to be a taboo topic, but every month I share how much money I’ve made blogging and what companies I’ve partnered with to make money, so I thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at one of the newest companies I work with – Sponsored Tweets. Sponsored Tweets is part of the Izea family (PayPerPost, SocialSpark…) which connects Twitter users looking to monetiz