This is a preview of my monthly review, or a monthly review preview. I haven’t had a chance to put together all the supporting details, but basically, my numbers for April look pretty good. A portion of a new student loan was disbursed in March (although I didn’t find out until April), so I had to adjust the previous month to account for the loan origination fee. It seems kind of silly to get financial aid for courses that are being almost completely (90%) reimbursed by my employer, especially with the current student loan rate at 4.7%. I’ll approach this topic some other time.
Being on vacation with my family in April helped my expenses. During my spring visit each year, on which a number of us go on a trip, my mother tends to cover much of my expenses. Is this a case of the Bank of Mom and Dad issue that everyone’s been blogging about lately? I don’t think so. I never have any expectations and I’m always prepared to pay for everything. (My mother may be reading this, and thus my “dramatically-discounted” vacations may come to an end.)
Stay tuned for my numbers, which I’ll make a concerted effort to have online tomorrow. Everything’s basically ready, I just had to concentrate on a paper and other assignments for my new class (another Finance course).
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Part of my fun is seeing how much I can squirrel away for a year just to support our vacation trips. You’d be surprised to see how frugal I can be for 11 months of the year! It is a great joy to me to see people I love having a good time, that’s worth much more than money to me. And it certainly is NOT tha ‘Bank of Mom,’ as I never really know what’s going to happen monetarily during the year and there are no expectations on any of our parts. In addition, I’m counting on your wise consumerism to turn it around someday soon and treat ME to a nice vacation!!
Yo—Yo Mama