Bookish Life Budget ~ December 2015 Check-In

Posted December 28, 2015 by Tanya in Book Haul, Budget / 4 Comments

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December is normally the month of gifts. This month I received some great books as gifts. However, I did pick some up for myself. Book Outlet had this deal on to get a special bear when you spend over $35. If you posted a picture with your bear and used their hashtag, you would also be entered for a grand prize. I cannot bring myself to buy books I don’t need for my series collections, so I just missed the $35, but you can still enter!

Free Book Outlet Bear with every order $35 or more while supplies last!

With these new additions to my library, I have had to do some shelf rearranging. I have now removed all cook books I had on one shelf and put them on a shelf in another room altogether. I hated doing that, but I’m getting stuck. It freed up a lot of space though. I’m still debating on buying one more book case, just to use the shelves out of it to add to the cases I have now. The ones I have only came with a few shelves, and it can fit at least a couple more. My brilliant daughter came up with the plan, now we just need to buy the book case!

As this will be the last check in for 2015, I want to say I’m pretty pleased with myself. Here are December’s numbers:

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Category Amount Spent this Month Remaining Balance
RT15 Final Payment $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
B&N Membership Renewal $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Audible Subscription $24.84 $24.84 $0.00
Books (Ebooks, paperbacks & hardcovers) $160.89 $41.57 $119.32
Total: $524.60 $66.41 $458.19

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December’s Book Haul

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So this was a month that included some gifts, some purchased and I finally did end up using some of my Audible credits. I always jump on the 2 for 1 sale they have. I also got really frustrated with Hoopla when I couldn’t download the book I wanted right that second, so I ended up using credits. Can’t waste listening time because Hoopla has reached its daily limit! It also helped that Audible told me I had to use two of my credits before the end of the month! They’ve been building up nicely since I started getting most of my audiobooks from the library.

So this has been December. Keep an eye out for my yearly budget total post coming up soon! I’d also love to hear about any goodies you got for the holidays, so leave me comments and tell me about them!

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