No-Kill Finance

Wanted to check in quickly before bedtime and describe the beauty of a 3-paycheck month.

I’m sure you’re all familiar with this phenomenon, but:  following a bi-weekly pay schedule, 2 months a year there are  3 paydays within a single month.  March is one of 2010’s 3-paycheck months for my pay schedule.

Admittedly, I haven’t investigated the long-term mathematical consequences of spending this money hastily, but nonetheless, I accomplished a lot this evening:

• I posted the final $159.40 into my emergency fund to reach the $1000 mark.
• I paid April’s rent and still have over $500 in my “rent” account (separate from my other various savings sub-accounts).
• I repaid the rather sizable (as in, say, half a grand) debt I owed my darling girlfriend.
• I managed, after all of this, to retain plenty of money to comfortably get me through to my next pay period.

All in all, a great success, and worth bragging about in my opinion…if I’m to brag, I wanted to remember to do it now.  (Ideally, I’ll be writing again tomorrow to celebrate “Happy New Month!”, but given my recent track record for blogging, I may forget totally.)

So, please forgive me for patting myself on the back so publicly, and try to have as good a night as I’ve had…I’m off to bed.