A while back, beginning of August to be exact, I participated in the Fuel for School Rebate and the Back to School Rebate. I should be receiving a $20 rebate and $10 Rebate.
The paperwork for the $20 Rebate I mailed in on August 10th, it should take 6-8 weeks.
The paperwork for the $10 rebate was delayed a bit because of not having stamps (I do everything online), and so it wasn't mailed until August 27th. Again, 6-8 weeks (sigh).
So I should be expecting surprises in my mailbox ($20) between now and October 5th.
And an additional surprise between October 8th-22nd.
This comes in handy as my son's birthday is Friday (09/25).
My birthday is the 30th. These birthday expenses are pretty much paid for.
But, then we have the numbers: 4, 14, 16, 23, 30. Which corresponds to the 5 birthdays of family members in less than 1 month!
Plus, the weekend of the 3rd we are going away as that is when I am running the marathon.
And two weeks later is a big celebration at our alma mater, which I have hosting duties and no doubt will be asked to support financially.
So in the big scheme of things, $30 is just a drop in the bucket compared to what I have to pay for in October, but at least it is coming.
On another note, I am going to start setting aside $50 each month specifically for family birthdays. This is ridiculous. I pull friend birthday expenses out of our miscellaneous money, but it's hard to do that for these birthdays, especially when there's an 11 year old who really wants a birthday party. We did the party on the low end scale, simple but fun. There was only 6 boys including him. We did pizza, a cookie pizza in lieu of cake (almost caught my kitchen on fire) and they swam and had a nerf gun war in the front yard. That said, there are still basic expenses that are just impossible to throw a party without spending one penny. Luckily, I'm super smart when it comes to Christmas. I put money each week into an ING account, and each January I bump it up by 3%. To adjust for inflation J
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