Being Paid Twice A Month Stinks!
Anyone else paid the 1st and 15th or the 15th and 30th of each month?
Why does it seem that when you are faced with a two and half week time frame between paychecks the earth stands still? I honestly thought that this coming Wednesday was April 1st and I would be getting paid. I guess I am playing a pre-April fools day prank on myself and a mean one at that. This next week and a half is going to be a true show of determination and will power to stay within the budget and avoid plastic like the plague. I can feel my weakness coming on stronger than ever and having a relapse against my plasectomy.
Our cash has been divided up into the correct categories, grocery money spent, blow money gone, entertained by entertainment, and the vehicles have had their gas thirst quenched. Maybe it’s the idea that I know my bank account is at $0.00, the first time in a long LONG time it has ever been there. It is a very unsettling feeling to know that there is NO money. Thankfully we have our emergency fund so that if something truly does happen we are covered.
8 days and counting….I hate Mondays.



March 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Yuck! I get paid every other week which means 26 pay periods per year but I only budget for 24.
I feel for you! Hang in there!
March 25th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I envy you getting paid twice a month! Our company only pays on the 15th! I have adapted but every so often I have to dip into the (small) reserves…..
Best wishes!
March 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am
@Maria – Thanks for the support, less than a week to go.
@Carol – Oh my, how do you do it? Once a month? That has to be quite the budgeting system you have going on.