walked with mom for 55 min today.

Colorado passed a tax increase bill yesterday, so my State taxes will go up between $300-400 a year for the next 5 years. Between tax increases, gas increases, grocery increases, utility increases and just general increases even if I do get a raise next March it will all already be spent by the increases. Fortunately I don't have credit card debt or that would be another increase.

I sold another book at half.com for 6.50

I was looking through the ads for this week since I will be going in town tomorrow. I have a ton of errands to do both before and after work. Every year around this time until the end of the year a lot of things that I use frequently go to their lowest prices. And every year I think I should stock up more in Nov and Dec, but I don't always have the money put aside. I've decided that next year I'm going to budget $5 a week to put aside to spend on bargains in Nov and Dec next year. For this year I think I'll take $200 out of my extra fund and use it for stocking up on items I will use during the rest of the year. I'll track what I spend here.

A lot of times I see really good gift card bargains around now, like buy a card for $20 to give to someone else and get a $5 one for yourself. I should stock up on some of those, especially at restaurants I eat at a lot. I see that Longs has 15 oz cans of chicken and beef stock at 4 for $1. I think I'll buy a case, you can't beat that price. Stock always goes on sale this time of year as well as spices and baking goods. I don't do much baking, but I plan to stock up on spices and stock.