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Pay Day, A Trip To The Car Shop

April 17th, 2008 at 02:58 am

Payday will officially be Friday 4/18 (when it will be direct deposited), but I got my pay stub today:

Net Pay After Taxes: $1,079.92
Health/Vision/Dental: -$56.76
401K: $0.00
Net Deposit: $1,023.16

Included in the net pay is 1.85 hours of overtime, amounting to about $11 extra. I'm adding that to the challenge, and will deposit it into the Wedding Fund at the end of the month.

The amount taken out for my health/vision/dental is the same as last time, which is a little more than I had budgeted for it, so I'm going to go ahead and change that part of my montly budget. The good news is, the net pay after taxes is higher than I expected, so I'm going to change the budget reflecting that as well.

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Spent $2.12 on McDonalds breakfast this morning. That's what I get for being early! Smile

Also spent $20 on the DC for gas on the way home.

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At the recommendation of a guy that I work with, I went down to the car shop in our shopping center on my lunch break. When I described what I had going on with my truck, the man there said his guess was the brakes hitting metal in the front end (whatever that means). I was able to make an appointment for Friday morning, so I will drop the truck off and then walk back to our store for work. Then they are supposed to figure out what's wrong with it, and call me to let me know. From there, I'll probably ask the same guy I work with (and maybe call my brother) to make sure what they are saying & what they want to charge are reasonable. Then, if everything is a go, I was told that they could have the work done by the time I got off work.

Right now, I am just hoping it's not over $700. I also need to get the oil changed while it's there (if they do that), and I probably need new tires if I'm going to try and keep the truck for a while. I would estimate the tires at about $90 a pop, so an extra $360 plus labor if I wanted to do that. Ugh. I really don't want to spend $1,000 or more right now, but I know the mechanics are going to push new tires, and I will feel stupid not taking them, because they are about 4 years old, and I'm constantly battling flats. Oh well, we'll see what they say and how much the first repairs are going to be.

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The good news for today is that we had free pizza for lunch at work, so no money spent there.

And finally... I am off to update a few of the pages in my side bar, and then FINALLY fill out my graduation invitations to mail. Woo hoo.

2 Responses to “Pay Day, A Trip To The Car Shop”

  1. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    Sounds like you have a good plan with checking out your car. I would suggest though, if at all possible financially, you might really want to consider replacing your tires. Worn out tires are not only a safety hazzard, but they also reduce your gas mileage. -- Maybe do a little googling to see if you can find a good deal on your kind of tires.

  2. sagegirl Says:
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    We take our cars to the same mechanic--been going there a few years. When we go in to have work done (ave $400 for our old cars) they change our oil for free. Ask them to do that for you if you are spending a big chunk of money. That is about $25 in supplies for them and they are already working on your car, so labor should be nil. Our mechanic is glad to do it for us and they also top off all our other fluids as well for nil.

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