The Financial Adventures of VelvetFreak

I sold my kindle and put the money towards my debt :rotfl: because let's face it, I'm too tight to pay for books just realised that the library is only 900 meters from work so I really should walk there in my lunch break.

ACE, I have never read gone with the wind :eek: but I really should.
Call me a weirdo, but my favourite author is V.C. Andrews and really liked her standalone book My Sweet Audrina. I like anything by John Green. Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden. To Kill A Mockingbird. I think you get the idea. I like stuff with an element of drama/craziness/weird happenings, but nothing too paranormal.

I also loveeee to re-read books. Perhaps because I don't have a great memory so I forget most of it. :think:

In other news, I got pizza for dinner and it was great.

Thank you so much Ace for the book recommendations.

It's Saturday morning here. I had a very quiet Friday night in. Resisted the urge to get takeaway junk and ate junk from the freezer instead.

Company shares should be hitting my bank account any day now. Am deadset excited about that. At next payday I should have at least $7k in the Emergency Fund :T

I spent most of last night scheming about house renovations. I desperately want to do new flooring but didn't want to do it in part of the house and leave the rest, but at the same time, I don't have the $$ for a full renovation, and even if I did save up and do it, it may not be wise to pour too much money into a 1-bed unit.

Anywho, my plan involves ripping out part of my kitchen (breakfast bar type thing), and moving the pantry to the other side of the room. :eek: And perhaps saving some of the parts that I rip out to be used in the laundry to make a sink/counter. I'm also thinking that with a bit of shuffling around, I could possibly be able to get a dishwasher installed . It won't be perfect or brand new, but for the cost of a couple of appliances and an electrician & plumber and a bit of physical labour, I think would be worth it (need to get an electrician in at some point anyway)

I should really post some pictures so you can see what I mean. Let me know if you're at all interested and I will post some.

What I'm getting at here is I think I will pause my EF savings for a little while and save up some money to do this. If I'm going to make this sort of change to my house, I'd rather do it sooner so that I actually get to enjoy the fruits of my labour for a good amount of time. I think it would just make me so much happier living here because I would actually be able to have a dining table and floors that are easy to clean. You get the idea

Also I finally listed my fish tank for sale on FB. Yay me. :T

Thanks for popping in Wilde. I do feel like I'm opening a can of worms a little bit. I keep thinking of more things that I should do such as ceiling fans and stuff like that.

Well today has been really nice. It's getting really warm here, it got up to 31 degrees but it stayed pretty cool inside the house. I always get a really weird feeling when the weather starts to warm up, I don't know how to explain it other than perhaps the anticipation of christmas and some time off work to go with it. I didn't get much done than a couple loads of washing and I did tidy/organise my linen cupboard. House is looking like a tip as I somewhat trashed it during the linen cupboard process.

Spent all day looking at renovation stuff and crunching numbers. Getting a bit excited but I need to save the money first so it won't happen for quite a while yet. Still haven't added it all up, not sure if I want to at this stage.

I was forced to be frugal tonight as I went to get into the car to go and get takeaway and it wouldn't start. Remembered I'd sat in there on Friday night talking on the phone and had the radio on for probably half an hour as I was too lazy/tired to get out. Obviously flattened the battery. :doh: so will beed to find a friend with jumper cables tomorrow, and probably get it booked in for a service on Monday (it needs it anyway) and get then to check the battery.

Ended up scavenging from the freezer for dinner again, which is certainly not a bad thing.

I need to stop being so fussy and spoiled about food. Sometimes I just don't want to eat what I have in the house, which is stupid.

Today was quite a frugal one. I took lunch to work but unfortunately had to suffer through my colleagues talking about football for half an hour straight in the break room, so not sure it was worth it :undecided Went to the shops after work and spend the last of my grocery money on food for the cat and a pizza from the deli that tasted like cardboard. Have packed the rest for lunch tomorrow.

Today was payday so I put my usual $300 to the Emergency Fund.

Annnnnd my cashed out shares finally hit my account! $3103.38 to be precise.

I've decided that I will start a proper fund for house renovations, however I won't spend the bulk of it until my 6 month probation period is up at work. And it should be around then that I actually have enough $$ to get started.

So I put $1950.65 in the Emergency Fund to bring it to a neat $6000.

And got the Renovation Fund started with $1152.73

Am unsure if I should start on my flooring this weekend - would be a good time to start as it's a long weekend due to Queen's birthday holiday on Monday. Or perhaps I should dedicate the time to selling off some of junk (mainly fish tank stuff) to fund the flooring rather than dipping into the account to do it. The bedroom window frames also need painting before I lay new floors. Same with the linen cupboard. And I have pretty much all the materials for that already. Hmm. I need to not get too ahead of myself here