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Snowflakes Cost Me $300

March 12th, 2014 at 11:30 pm

The real kind, that is. We got dumped on with snow overnight, which means I couldn't get out of the driveway, which means I couldn't go to work. Since this is overtime season, that means I missed 10 hours of time and a half. I was able to work a couple of hours from home, I had an extra hour yesterday, and I can probably add a couple of extra hours the rest of the week, so I'll probably only end up missing five hours of overtime, but still, it's a pretty significant hit.

I am so over this winter.

In the good snowflake category (which I'm using toward my 52 week mega challenge), I had $3.53 left on a Subway gift card that I used for lunch Monday, and $6 from Pinecone surveys that I'd forgotten about. (I haven't gotten a survey from them for almost a year, but they haven't kicked me out yet, either. I'm going to send an email to see what's going on with that.) So, $9.53 goes to the reserve, added to the $1.37 that's already in there, for $10.90 available to use at the end of the week.

I'm still debating with myself about what kind of "saving" I'm going to use as snowflakes. The Subway gift card I'm comfortable using, because I would have spent that money anyway. However, we had some coupons for free pizzas at a new place that just opened, and I'm reluctant to include the $6.95 (plus tax) as a snowflake, since if we hadn't had the coupon we wouldn't have gone there. On the other hand, we would have spent some money somewhere for the meal, either at a different restaurant or at the grocery store.

How do you decide between a snowflake and money you just didn't spend?

1 Responses to “Snowflakes Cost Me $300”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    I don't count coupons as snowflakes because it is just too confusing! Some people can keep track, so it is up to you. Oh, I had a lull with Pinecone surveys at one time. It turns out my spam folder was catching them.

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