MONDAY MINIS | MONTH AHEAD | MONTHLIES | DEBT STORY TINIES

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome back, and welcome if you're new. My name is Dawn.

[00:00:05]Today, we are going to be working on our Monday Minis, our Month Ahead, our Monthlies, our Debt Story Tinies, uh and our Merry Money Monday.

[00:00:16]I hope everyone had a great weekend. I did. It was relaxing.

[00:00:22]Um I did get in the pool on Saturday to clean it and try to get it ready. It was so cold. I didn't feel my legs for a couple hours after, even after a hot shower. But, it's kind of ready.

[00:00:36]It's um Sunday that I'm filming now. I'm going to get back into it um to do a little more cleaning. But, um yeah, it's kind of ready. So, let's just hope our weather keeps being warm, cuz they're saying it should cool down again.

[00:00:54]Okay. But, I hope everyone else had a great weekend.

[00:00:58]First thing we're going to do this morning is a roll for our savings this comes from Miss Anna in a banana budgets. Every day, I come in with $6.

[00:01:07]I roll a color dot die with a six-sided four, three.

[00:01:13]And where's my color? There we go. And whatever color I get, I will look at the key that'll tell me which dice I need to look at.

[00:01:22]So, we have green, which is a D4. Oh, D4 is one. Now, I'm getting the ones.

[00:01:28]Two in a row. Okay. So, we're going to save a dollar for today.

[00:01:32]And we're just putting that dollar in the envelope, and we will count it at the end of the month.

[00:01:39]Then, $5 will go into our autism roll color and save. This comes from Miss Lisa at Lisa Grateful Me, and this is free on her Kofi.

[00:01:50]Five is blue, so we will color this one blue.

[00:01:56]And this one it is will go to my sister-in-law.

[00:02:01]It's a weird color blue.

[00:02:03]I don't know if I should have picked this color.

[00:02:06]Um, she has a nonverbal autistic son.

[00:02:10]And they're having some struggles. So, yay.

[00:02:13]We're going to put that in there.

[00:02:17]And put our $5 in here. And now we have 51 150 70 90 210 30 [snorts] 50 70 90 95 96 97 and 98.

[00:02:32]298.

[00:02:34]>> [sighs] >> Tomorrow maybe we can get to 300. Yay.

[00:02:40]All right. So, I'm going to put that there. I don't know if we're going to finish any. We will need this eventually. So, we're going to just turn it to what we need it and set it aside.

[00:02:51]The first thing we are going to do is our Merry Money Monday. This is a collab between myself and Tiffany at Saving with Tiffany. This is free on both of our coffees. We have We started this in December and started saving for Christmas all year long.

[00:03:05]So, on Mondays I pick a card tier one that are numbers one through five. She picks a card tier two five through 15.

[00:03:14]Um, and then what I do is I decide do I want to save what I picked, what she picked, or add them together. So, last week I picked one, she picked a 10. So, I am going to save the 11. So, I have my $11 here.

[00:03:28]This is just an additional way um, to save for Christmas.

[00:03:32]So, now we have I have in here 5 10 11 12 13 14 and 15.

[00:03:40]And then this also comes with it. It's a little color and save. So, like the first week I save $4, I colored mom in.

[00:03:47]This week I saved 11, I did my butterfly. Then when this is finished, I'll laminate and put stickers on it and have a challenge for next May.

[00:03:56]So let's pick our number for next week.

[00:04:02]So I have my cards here numbered 1 through 5. So let's just set these out in no kind of order.

[00:04:11]All right, and then we will roll our five-sided die.

[00:04:15]And we got number three.

[00:04:17]And we got three. So I am going to write three.

[00:04:23]And then I will see what Tiffany pulls.

[00:04:26]I am thinking I'll probably just save the three since I saved a big number this week.

[00:04:32]But we will see what she picks.

[00:04:36]All right, so that is our merry money Monday.

[00:04:41]All right, and then our next thing we're going to do is our month ahead.

[00:04:47]So my month ahead I learned from Miss Steff's Miss Steff's on a budget, and what I do, I have nine or I originally had nine categories. Every week I came in with $27, and I would put $3 a category. Then when my smallest one completed, I would move the $3 I was putting in that one, and I'd move it to the next one, so the next one would get $6. I'd put six every week until that one became fully funded, then I would move the six to the next one, the next one would get nine every week. So you're snowballing your savings. So I have completed seven. So I only have two categories left. I still have my $27, but 21, 2, 3, and 4 is the snowball for our debt, which is our next one we are working on.

[00:05:39]And now debt has, let's count it first.

[00:05:45]And let's grab our calculator.

[00:05:48]So, debt has $600 in the bank.

[00:05:52]20, 40, 60, 80, 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.

[00:05:58]So, 707.

[00:06:00]And then each of my icons are $18, so divided by 18. So, I can have 39 icons colored in. So, we have 10 20 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.

[00:06:13]8 and 9. Yay!

[00:06:21]This one is getting us so close to finishing.

[00:06:25]All right. And then our last envelope will just get its normal three, which is mortgage.

[00:06:33]And mortgage now has 50 70 90 95 96 97 98 99 100 1 and 2. So, 102 plus 200 in the bank. So, 302.

[00:06:48]And then each icon is 20, so we can have 15.

[00:06:52]So, right now we have 14, so we're finally able to do another one.

[00:06:57]I also have minis towards this as well to help it along. And I used to have box challenges towards this as well.

[00:07:05]So, love it. And when I finish it, I will be doing this again cuz it is amazing and anything can happen. Um I could lose my job tomorrow.

[00:07:14]We just never know. And to know I'm a month ahead in some of my bills is amazing.

[00:07:20]Okay. So, we're going to set that aside and go into our Monday minis.

[00:07:27]So, my Monday minis, I come in with $40 in ones.

[00:07:32]And I roll my four-sided die. So, let's take the rest of the dice out.

[00:07:39]And we left off on number one.

[00:07:42]So, I roll my four-sided and whatever the dice tells me, that's how many bills goes on each challenge.

[00:07:50]So, what did everybody do this weekend?

[00:07:53]Anything fun?

[00:07:56]I just had a relaxing weekend. Like I said, it is Sunday.

[00:08:00]After um my video, I'm going to go back into the pool. It is supposed to get up to 90 today.

[00:08:10]So, I'm going to enjoy it while I can before we go back to work.

[00:08:16]Work is going to be a little bit busy this week. I still have one of my employees out on vacation, so I am doing her job.

[00:08:25]And I had forgotten Friday when I got to work that we had our company picnic. So, I did not work on Friday. We got to do the picnic and then they left let us go home early. So, I am sure I'm going to go into a lot of work tomorrow.

[00:08:45]Which today you're watching.

[00:08:47]>> [laughter] >> But I'm filming on Sunday.

[00:08:49]All right. So, we have a few dollars left. We have $4 left and three wants to go on this one.

[00:08:57]So, this one wants one. It's getting one. So, we're going to start on number five next week.

[00:09:07]Okay. So, I don't know I don't remember.

[00:09:10]Oh, and my color my savings dashboards are from Brittany at Budgeting with a Ginger.

[00:09:16]I'm not sure if we're going to finish any. I can't remember.

[00:09:19]Number one is [clears throat] from Brooke at Bee's Budgets. This is a freebie under Coffee.

[00:09:26]>> [clears throat] >> And we got today 1 2 3 and 4.

[00:09:30]>> [snorts] >> So, we have a three left. So, let's do a three and a one.

[00:09:38]We one more three left.

[00:09:40]This one I did not calculate how much this will save. We have 20 30 35 36 37 38 39 41 and two.

[00:09:49]Yay. And this one is going to household.

[00:09:55]All right, number two.

[00:09:59]Is from Greta at Agape Book Club. She sent this to me in happy mail. Each um flower is $2. And today we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10.

[00:10:12]Okay, well 2 4 6 8 10 I think we just finished it.

[00:10:16]So, I'm just going to do two four six eight and 10. Wow, okay.

[00:10:26]So, we should have $20.

[00:10:28]We have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 and 20.

[00:10:38]All right, so this one is going to extra groceries.

[00:10:48]Perfect.

[00:10:52]All right, so let's paper clip this one.

[00:10:55]Let me grab my paper clips.

[00:11:01]And we're going to set that back there and we're going to grab our dollar for our bubble challenge.

[00:11:07]And we need oh my hair. I swear my hair falls out.

[00:11:12]We need a new [clears throat] one. Oh, and look at the next tag. It is for month ahead. Yay.

[00:11:18]So, we're going to put this one in the back and grab our next one. We're going to do and we are going to work on this May Lupus Awareness Challenge. This was sent to me from Miss Charla at Charla May Budgets. So, we're going to put that in there.

[00:11:33]And our tag in.

[00:11:36]All right, number three has a rollover dollar from last week.

[00:11:41]This one is from Miss Punky at Punky Pennies. She sent this to me in happy mail and each bow is $2 and today it got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8.

[00:11:53]So, there's two four six and eight.

[00:12:06]All right, I need to condense this one.

[00:12:09]And we have in here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 and 22.

[00:12:22]Oh, and it still has a dollar rollover and number three is going to travel.

[00:12:31]All right, number four is from Miss Maddie at Floating Funds and Piper, her daughter, and each flower is a dollar and today it got 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7.

[00:12:47]So, one two three four five six and seven.

[00:13:03]And then we had a dollar from last week, so we have $8 in here.

[00:13:08]And number four is going to my cat Cali.

[00:13:14]Number five is from Budget with Mrs. P and this came in an order. And today it got 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 and each square is a dollar.

[00:13:27]So, 1 2 3 4 5 and 6. So, only needs a dollar. What's this one going to?

[00:13:43]Home.

[00:13:46]Yeah, I can All right. So, we have 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 and 4.

[00:14:00]All right. So, we only need a dollar. I almost stole that extra dollar from Punkey's heat. All right. Last one, number six comes from the Messy Budgeter.

[00:14:13]He, Gerald the giraffe.

[00:14:16]And today it got 1 2 3 4 and 5. So, let's do two of the twos and a one or five.

[00:14:28]And this one now has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10.

[00:14:36]And this one is going to pool.

[00:14:40]All right. So, we got one finished. Yay.

[00:14:45]So exciting. Okay, where am I going to put this? Okay.

[00:14:49]And the last thing we are going Nope, it's not our last stop on.

[00:14:54]Our next thing we're going to do is our monthly's.

[00:14:59]So, I come in with $60 a week for our monthly challenges.

[00:15:04]So, we have 20 25 30 35 40 41 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 51 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 60.

[00:15:20]All right.

[00:15:22]Is someone here?

[00:15:26]I don't know if Okay, number one is from April at April's Fresh Start.

[00:15:34]And this was free from her budget miss in December, last December. We need to scratch two.

[00:15:42]So, let's let's see which one we're going to do. Number one.

[00:15:48]And that is a three. I feel like there's a seven in here somewhere. I can't remember.

[00:15:54]So, that is three and then one, two.

[00:15:59]And that's a one.

[00:16:00]We might be saving the big numbers for our last two. So, $4.

[00:16:10]So, I'm going to put one back and grab a five.

[00:16:14]And so, now in here we have 10, 15, 16, 17, and 18.

[00:16:19]Yeah, cuz this one says 31.

[00:16:24]Okay, our next one is from Miss Lindsey Epic Wish Mama Budgets. This is her honey and hugs your long savings challenge. And um May's been a little spicy. We had 11 and a 10.

[00:16:37]So, I'm scared. Let's see. Let it be a one.

[00:16:40]It's a seven. May is spicy.

[00:16:48]All right, so five, six, and seven. So, right now May has 20, 25, 26, 27, and 28.

[00:17:02]All right, our next one is from Tiffany A Saving with Tiffany.

[00:17:08]She did a 12 months to a chunky wallet and May is a 25 plus. So, the plus is there's just got little flowers and so you can save extra on there. So our next highest number is five. So let's Well, we need to do more than five because we only have one more.

[00:17:30]Right? Yeah, we only have one more Monday. So let's do five.

[00:17:37]No, we're good to do five cuz then next week we can do seven. So let's just do five.

[00:17:43]And now we have 10 15 16 17 18.

[00:17:49]Nope. Let's do three. Then I can get rid of that 20.

[00:17:55]So let's do three more in here.

[00:18:00]All right. So I should have a total of 21, right? 21 22 23 24 Yep.

[00:18:07]So let's put this back, grab a 20 and a one. Okay, we're going to put all that back for 21.

[00:18:16]And then next week we'll have $4 left.

[00:18:21]Okay, our next one comes from Pam at The Mrs. Champion and she did a whole book for the whole year and I am just printing out each month.

[00:18:34]So we need to do Hmm, cuz next week I need to do $10 in here. Ooh, leak.

[00:18:46]Okay.

[00:18:47]So let's do this.

[00:18:54]So let's do Can't tell if someone's here or if he's on the phone. He's kind of loud.

[00:19:03]All right. So we're going to do five for this flower.

[00:19:13]And let's do I feel like we need to do like a yellow.

[00:19:24]Let's do this yellow for five.

[00:19:43]All right, so we're going to do 10 in here. I'm not sure if I've ever seen that color flower.

[00:19:49]So next week we'll have 5 10 and 11.

[00:19:53]Okay, that's not terrible.

[00:19:55]I mean it's a lot but it's not terrible.

[00:19:57]So now in this one we have 10 15 20 21 22 23 and 24.

[00:20:05]All right.

[00:20:08]Our next challenge comes from Miss Anna Banana and Lacy at Blue Kiwi Budgets.

[00:20:15]They did a whole year book as well. This is free on their coffees and I have half a year and Lacy has half a year. So we are working on this game.

[00:20:26]And of course I I think I want to say it was somewhere I think I landed here last time.

[00:20:33]All right. So we don't have a lot of money left. So let's just see where we go. Two.

[00:20:40]One and two. So that's a roll and save.

[00:20:44]So let's roll our D3.

[00:20:47]And we got two.

[00:20:50]All right, let's roll again.

[00:20:54]Six. One two three four five and six.

[00:20:58]That's two.

[00:21:02]Um one two three four. Let's go one more time.

[00:21:09]Five. One two three four and five and that's $5.

[00:21:14]Okay, we'll stop there.

[00:21:18]All right, so we're doing 5 6 7 8 and 9 in this week and in total we have 5 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 and 24.

[00:21:38]All right, our next challenge comes from Andrea and Notebooks Given and she did a yearly savings challenge.

[00:21:47]This one is more of her low budget. Um she also has a higher budget. That's the whole calendar.

[00:21:53]So let's do Let's do four.

[00:22:01]So let's do two.

[00:22:07]Four.

[00:22:12]And the Y for five cuz all the the letters I've made a dollar.

[00:22:20]So we're going to do five in here. The next week we'll have two and then two rolling saves.

[00:22:27]All right, so Andrea's has saved 5 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 and 21.

[00:22:37]All right, our next challenge >> [snorts] >> comes from Miss Camila, Budget by Camila, and she did a year-long challenge.

[00:22:49]Ooh, let's see.

[00:22:51]1 2 3 4 5 6. So we'll do the six here.

[00:23:00]And then we'll do our roll and save.

[00:23:04]I feel like maybe I need to I might need to bring more money next week to make sure or maybe have some on the side to make sure we finish. All right, so six and two. One and two. So, we're going to do eight in here. So, we're doing our two.

[00:23:24]And then, next week we'll just have seven.

[00:23:28]And I'm not pressuring myself to finish these. Whatever gets done in the month, I'm pulling, but I'm trying to finish them. So, we have 5 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 and 3. 23.

[00:23:43]Okay, and then we have our Disney 12-month collaboration. This is hosted by Stephs on a Budget, Weekly Budgets and Budgeting with Lisandra. We are working on May. Um there are two creators for each month. May is the $25 creator, which is Amanda at Mom Wife Budget Life. And then, there is also a rolling save and which is Tammy at Our City Budgets. I'm not doing the rolling saves unless we had a lot of extra, which we don't. I am just doing the $25.

[00:24:17]So, let's do We have quite a bit.

[00:24:23]What is today? Yeah, we only have one one more Monday.

[00:24:27]Um how much money do we have? 1 2 3 4 5.

[00:24:32]All right.

[00:24:37]Let's do four and the one for five.

[00:24:46]And then, next week 5 6 7 8.

[00:24:50]Ooh.

[00:24:53]We'll see. We'll see. Hold on.

[00:24:55]So, in this one so far, have 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

[00:25:03]Okay.

[00:25:05]Let's see what card we pick for our next one. Maybe we can put another dollar in here.

[00:25:11]So, our next one I have had in here for a while. I decided to put like a seasonal challenge in here. This is the mini search and save lucky in love. This comes from Paula at the Swag Doublers.

[00:25:24]And we have a five, a four, and a two.

[00:25:26]So, as long as we don't pull the five, let's see.

[00:25:31]Oh.

[00:25:34]We picked the two. We picked the two.

[00:25:37]Yay.

[00:25:39]All right.

[00:25:42]So, we're going to put $2. So, we have $2 extra. Okay, that that helps.

[00:25:48]And I definitely need to condense this.

[00:25:50]This is where I can put the 20. We have 20, 40, 60, 61, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 71, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

[00:26:06]81. Oh, my. Is that right? 40, 60, 61, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 71, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 81 dollars.

[00:26:21]Holy moly, that's awesome.

[00:26:23]And we only have two left. Yay. So, that I got to put that back in.

[00:26:28]So, we might be able to finish that in a couple of weeks. So exciting.

[00:26:33]Okay. So, then our last $2 we're going to put in here.

[00:26:39]So, we're going to do two into our Disney collab. And then, let's see. $12 Disney.

[00:26:48]So, then we'll only have five and six.

[00:26:52]So, we should be good. We should be good next week. Okay.

[00:26:56]Yay.

[00:26:58]So, that is our monthly's.

[00:27:00]Now, let's do our bubble really quick.

[00:27:04]And then we'll do our debt story tiny's.

[00:27:07]So, I save a dollar for every challenge I complete. So, we are going to color in one bubble for our mini.

[00:27:19]And we're very close to being done. I am not going to count this until the end of the year.

[00:27:27]I'm just going to reprint another one and just keep going.

[00:27:31]All right. So, that's our bubbles. And the last thing we're going to do is our debt story tiny's.

[00:27:40]So, the debt story dashboards, the prop coins, um, and the bank envelope all come from Steph at Steph's on a budget. So, I am coming in with $5 every other day.

[00:27:54]And we are putting the $5 in our bank envelope.

[00:28:02]And we are exchanging it for the $5 in prop coins.

[00:28:06]Um, some of these in here are the Disney sidekick collab tiny's. I am trying to finish that because it is saving so much money. And I'm getting very, very close.

[00:28:17]So, some of them are the sidekick. And then when that finishes, um, I'm replacing it with a Halloween collab.

[00:28:26]Okay. And we're rolling our three-sided die.

[00:28:30]I am loving that I decided to use this for the sidekicks cuz we are getting so, so close.

[00:28:42]I can just feel it.

[00:28:45]Okay.

[00:28:49]I ran out of things to talk about.

[00:28:54]Oh, don't miss this Don't miss an envelope, Don.

[00:28:57]Yeah.

[00:28:59]Two left. Are we going to make it around?

[00:29:04]Two there. Did we miss number No. All right, yay. So, we're going to start on number seven again.

[00:29:12]And let's see how we did. A mess over here.

[00:29:18]Okay, number one got 50 cents. And number one comes from the Cafecito budget. This is a part of the sidekicks, and each die is 25, so we're just going to do two.

[00:29:34]Number two got 75 cents.

[00:29:37]Number two comes from Safe With Glow.

[00:29:40]All it needed was 50 cents to finish.

[00:29:43]So, there is 25 and 50. This one saved $2. So, we're going to put that there.

[00:29:49]We're going to take our 50.

[00:29:50]Then we're going to come back in our extras. And my extras going forward will um be from the Always Halloween In My Head. This is the Mystic Halloween collab.

[00:30:02]And everybody created four tinies for the month of May. I know I'm not going to get these done in the month of May, but we're going to start working on them.

[00:30:12]And our first one comes from the host, Veronica at Weekly Budgets, and I've made each pumpkin 25 cents, so we can do one pumpkin.

[00:30:26]All right, number three got 25.

[00:30:29]Number three is from the sidekicks, and this is from Stephanie at Overthinking and Budgeting, and each one is 50, so we can do the other half of this one.

[00:30:40]Number four got 75. Number four comes from Misfit & Money Mishaps. This was an extra one I put in before Halloween. And each one is 25 cents. So, 25 50 and 75.

[00:31:03]All right. Our next one got 75.

[00:31:06]And number five comes from me. And this um Bambi already got 25 and so we got the 75 to finish it cuz each Bambi is a dollar.

[00:31:17]So, we only have a dollar left on this one.

[00:31:21]Our next one got 75.

[00:31:24]And this one comes from Safe With Glow.

[00:31:27]And each peanut is 50. So, this we can finish that one with the 25.

[00:31:33]And we can do half a line here for the 50 because this last peanut is a dollar.

[00:31:41]Okay. Next one got 75.

[00:31:45]And this one comes from Vicky Pink Plum Budgeting. And I still owe this one 25.

[00:31:52]I had colored it in.

[00:31:54]Um and I did not have the money. So, really each one is 50 cents. So, we're going to do just one for 50.

[00:32:05]I called it on a video. I was like, "Uh-oh."

[00:32:08]And our last one got 50. And this one comes from Lindsey at Bookish Mama Budget. And each dipping sauce is 50.

[00:32:15]So, we can do the other half of this one and a half of that one.

[00:32:20]I feel like I need to do that in Sharpie.

[00:32:24]Okay. It looked like it was starting to fade.

[00:32:27]Okay.

[00:32:29]So, we finished one from the Disney Sidekicks for $2. So, we need to pull out our two.

[00:32:37]And what I do is I put this back here and on Sundays when I do my debt, I will pull out what we save and mark this one on the tracker and put the money in my envelope.

[00:32:53]Yay! All right, guys. That is all I have today.

[00:32:58]I hope you all have an amazing start to your week, amazing Monday.

[00:33:02]Um like I said, I'm pretty sure mine's going to be pretty busy. I will be back tomorrow for our long-term savings and Christmas and our shake, rattle, and roll tinies.

[00:33:14]Um I think that's it. I love y'all so much. Have a great day. Bye.