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Ummm... I made copies of our condo keys for our nanny and my parents so that I can go back to work at the end of my maternity leave in 1.5 weeks and start making some money again!

We canceled our direcTV service for good not too long ago and just watch shows through Amazon prime or Apple TV. This saves us $125 per month because we had multiple receivers and premium channels too. I really don't miss it at all.

We paid off all our cc debt with our tax refund. Not fun, but definitely made me feel better!

Made dinner! I know it sounds small, but we were ordering in a lot when LO first arrived so it feels good to have cut that back to once a week.

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I mailed in our tax assessment for the new house to make it our legal residence. Saves us lots of $$ on property taxes!

To get rid of stupid little bills we have, we've been making weekly payments instead of monthly payments. We've already paid one off, and the next will be paid off in a couple weeks. We hate having these hang over our heads even though they are interest free.

Convinced my husband he did not need to buy the $500+ set of tools he was looking at on Craigslist.

But in all seriousness, we sold some old furniture and are using it to pay for our yard to get some TLC. I recently lost the dog among the weeds...

I got paid today. That improved my finances drastically.

Today I did some "spontaneous saving." I read on a blog something about how if you tend to be a spontaneous spender, try being a spontaneous saver instead. So occasionally when I see threads like this and start to get nervous about if I'm doing 'enough' to become financially secure, I'll sneak a little extra into our savings account.

We are almost 3/4 of the way to our savings goal for the year, and it's not even June! Granted, maternity leave might set us back a good bit, but I'm hopeful that if we are just hunkering down at home and not paying daycare we won't have to dip into savings that much.