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The Immigration Illustration Scholarship is going on until July 17th, 2008.
There are three different winners for this scholarship. One is the grand prize winner who gets $500 and one of those camera printers. The second gets $400 and a camera printer, and the third will get $100 scholarship or cash.
Check out that first link for all the information you'll need. Here are ocnum=1" target="_blank">the rules as well.
Good luck!
You all know my grocery budget is $50 and that gas for my car is budgeted at $30 per month. But this month I spent $50 on gas, and it was the best $50 ever.
I got to go to my hometown and actually see my family for the first time in three months. There was a birthday party, and mother's day, and my favorite food in the whole world two days in a row.
What was the best $50 you've ever spent? (Or what was the best money you've ever spent period, not necessarily $50).
The hardest part of my $50 grocery budget is that $50 has to include soap, laundry detergent, toothpaste, etc. I could eat whatever I wanted on $50 if I didn't have to buy anything but food. I haven't actually had to buy any toothpaste yet, (I get free samples of those, I think I'm set on toothpaste for a long time!), but this month I did have to buy laundry detergent. It was on sale, but I could have eaten for days on that $4.25 that I had to pay for stupid detergent.
Anyway, as for the total I spent on groceries, I'm at $47 for the month. Of course, I still have to go back and buy bread and milk, so once again, I'll be a little bit over for the month. It may seem like I should just up my budget to $55 each month, but then I'm quite sure I would spend $60 each month on groceries.
I spent $4 at CVS, $3 at the dollar store, and $40 at Kroger. The dollar store and the CVS are right by my apartment, so I just walk to those. No extra gas needed. Plus, the dollar store always has a few things cheaper that I like to get on a regular basis, like gatorade, apple juice, oh, and stupid toilet paper that would fall under the same category as laundry detergent.  CVS was a random trip I don't normally make because their stuff is usually more expensive.
So I guess it's been a decent grocery month. I did the "buy two loaves of bread" thing again (did I even write about that before?) so that I've been eating a bunch of sandwiches and it makes my money stretch farther.
There is something exciting for next month's grocery budget, but I'll have to write about that later! 
So the consolidation loan I applied for through Chase, the one I mentioned a few times, yeah didn't happen.
I had emailed them about a week ago, and the email just said I'd have to call. Well, I hate the phone, almost have a phobia of it, and I got kind of busy last week so I didn't get to it. Today I call. The lady on the other end of the line then tries to tell me they tried to contact me, then mailed something that I needed to send back, and then tried to contact me again about the mailing. I'm assuming the "contact" me part meant calling me. I never got a freaking call from them, never got any mail from them except for stupid stuff about my credit cards. I'm so mad. So now I hate them as well.
Since that one wasn't going to happen (they are not doing any more consolidation loans for a while - says so on their website, plus the lady told me that), I decided to try the one my mom had found for me before I had done the chase one. (I did chase first because I thought it would be easier to pay that one online, plus I could pay extra and it would be automatically applied to principle amount). I get to that website, enter everything in, try to do the electonic signature, only it wants me to find something on a PDF that won't come up on my computer. It told me the file was damaged and that I can't see it. WHAT?! Ok, try again.
Same response. By now I'm pissed and wanting to throw things. So I call my mom. Ask her to do it and see if her computer will like her. If all else fails, we could try the printing it off because she has a printer.
For some reason, her computer likes her and it works. I immediately got an email saying that my loan is being processed. Thank goodness. Hopefully this one will actually work.
In some good, related news, checking out Sallie Mae and my private loans, the payments will only be $96 and some change. This is lower than originally planned when the email from them said $138 a month.
Phew. That was more of a rant than anything, but I feel better now.
This year seems to be flying by quickly. I can't believe it's May already. Anyway, here's how I did on last month's goals.
1) Pay an extra $20 to tuition cards. Check! Paid an extra $85 above what I normally pay to my cards
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April was a fantastic month! It was the first month where I had my full paychecks, so I was able to pay my bills just from money coming in, and not from my savings.
The new number is -$32,283. An increase of $582! Woohoo! I love it when that happens! Check out the chart
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I got an email about a link going to "101 Wellness Tips for College Students." And while most of you are about to be getting out for the summer, it is still something to think about. Plus, it's helpful to use next year.
Most of the things on this list are things you all probably already know. Like, wash your hands, don't eat crap food, don't over-eat crap food, etc. haha. But I'm sure you will all like #27! [ Click here to read more ]
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