A little money stuff

While it's dry and sunny today (and supposed to be for next 10 days at least), we did come up with a solution to see if it will help with the muddy paws on future rainy days. We have a water spigot right outside the shop door. I told DH to put a bunch of gravel all around the area in front of the door. We put a nozzle on the hose and will have them stand in the gravel to rinse off paws, before they come into the shop and we can then dry them off.

The 2 guys who started framing the house yesterday were complaining at the end of the day how far behind they are on jobs. The head guy said they are like 2 weeks behind schedule. Well........I can sure see why. Just in the last 2 days they have already lost almost a full days work! They didn't show up until 11 yesterday (and were done at 4:30). When they left they said they'd be here at 7:30 this morning. They just got here at 9:30.

The best part about being here is DH doesn't have to get up and drive over here early every morning! We didn't have to get up until 7am. No more 5 or 5:30 am. I hated that! LOL. Plus we will save some money on gas, too, now. He was filling up about once a week the past few months. Also, no more water/sewer bill. That was a minimum of $70 a month, higher in summer months.
 
I received a check in the mail for $12 from a class action law suit I registered for. I swear I had already gotten a check for this a year or so ago, but maybe not. We also saved $7 by taking our garbage can with us from old house to our new place. My company also funded our 401k for the year with matching and some profit sharing, so another $4335 was just added to my 401k account.

We haven't really been spending much on food, since we aren't having big full dinners. Did I mention DH has lost like 30 pounds? He was 198 this morning, so lost another few pounds. His jeans are hanging on him, so he has to keep wearing a belt now. I am down to 118, just about exactly where I like to be (I like 115, but I'll take it, since I was almost 130 before).

We're going to get a mailbox set up next week. I will not miss having a PO Box and having to go to the post office all the time to get mail. Plus, it's often been confusing ordering stuff online, with having both a PO Box and a physical address. Now, it will all be one and the same. And if I need to mail something for work (which is usually a couple of times per week) I don't have to get in my car and make a special trip to the post office. I can now just walk down the street a bit and put it in our mailbox.

I'm not really missing tv much, though I do have Netflix I can watch (still watching Heartland, on season 5 of 10). I think DH is missing it more than me. We will probably get our satellite service transferred over sometime soon, but not in any real hurry. I think he'll just put the tv up on a wall.

Our hot water heater not working again.......