All Christmas gifts are bought, wrapped and those that needed to be shipped have been mailed! Our Christmas budget is $600 and we came in under budget by $17.75. I probably would have been a little over budget, but I did get a credit for an item that came slightly damaged from Amazon (so it was free), and I earned some Swagbucks $25 that I used to purchase one gift on Amazon, in addition to using about $15 in Amazon credit card rewards.
I have some snowflakes fall around here!
I redeemed $47.06 in American Express Rewards this morning. Those are redeemed as a credit, but I record it as money sent to our Big Goal in YNAB.
My husband received a travel reimbursement from work and it was $58.40 more than his expenses. I saved it of course.
I also sold a salt lamp on Facebook that we had been given as a gift. I was paid in cash, but used the cash for groceries so I moved $25 out of the grocery budget to the Big Goal.
I received $3 from a Pinecone Survey in my PayPal account, too.
And the final snowflake (small amounts of found money) is a sale on eBay which netted us $5.34.
I'm a big believer that small amounts of money can add up, of course large amounts can too, but don't discount the small amounts to add up to something!
Did you come in over, under or on budget for your holiday spending this year?
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