Finally after one full month of waiting, we are able to access our funds. Imagine that you got paid today, April 7th but you were not able to cash your check until May 7th! Well, that is what we are now subject too in Spain… a one month holding of funds. Praise the Lord we [...]
Well, John came home today (Friday the 6th) from the bank, saying that our Spanish bank just made a new rule to hold our checks 1 month from now on. It used to be a week then 2, 3 and now 4 weeks. The process goes like this: we get our deposit each month on [...]
Balance: 20€ Money spent: 11/28/08- zero 11/29/08- zero 11/30/08- zero 12/1/08- toilet paper 1,05€ 12/2/08-zero 12/3/08-zero 12/4/08-chicken bouillon, 3,85€ 12/4/08-lettuce, 1 kilo of tangerines, 1,80€ 12/5/08-zero 12/6/08-zero 12/7/08-zero 12/8/08-zero Well there you have it! I have spent 6,70€ to get us by with 13,30€ left to spend the next 10 days. We continue to eat [...]
This has been a good and fun week! Well, it’s been 12 weeks, 3 months of spending 10€ a week! This week, I have to give myself a raise… to 15€ a week instead of 10€. I am just out of too many baking items. After having our guests with us, and all the beverages [...]
What an interesting time this is! We continue here in the village and have received some “garden blessings”. One of my greatest challenges in this venture, is not so much the food, but rather the toiletries; toilet paper, toothpaste, etc. On the food front, if I run out of potatoes, I can just prepare rice [...]
I keep going on this personal challenge and I told John that it seemed as though we were living the parable of the fish and loaves being multiplied! It has been a lot of fun and also fun to read some of your comments. I hear that several of you are doing the same challenge [...]
Fun times! We are in the village working and hoping to get a lot of work done. I marketed for the summer before leaving Madrid at the cheapest store because the village stores are at least triple the price. Just can’t do that. I have stayed within my budget however. So… this week my 10 [...]