One thousand dollars

One thousand dollars, not that much money right? No, not really, but it is alot to have sitting around when you're still six months away from paying off all of your debt. Baby step one, put 1000$ aside as an emergency fund until all debt it payed off. We cheated once and bought a couch with it, but payed it back within a week or two. That did however set us back a bit. Elijah's credit card still isn't paid off, as we had planned to do already. If we had waited to buy new furniture, it would have been payed off. The salesman at the brick had told us that the couch wasn't going to stay at that price past Wednesday, if i remember correctly, he said it would increase by 500$ ...it went up by 50$. What a piss off. Especially now that there's so many things I would LOVE to buy, that we could have with 1000$. For example, Canadian Tire is having a HUGE sale on bikes right now, and neither of us has a bike. For 600$, we could have bought two bikes and a bike trailer, savings of  500-550$. now THAT'S a deal. Another example. We would love to buy a canoe and accessories. At the end of the season they usually have big sales, where we could have bought a canoe, life jackets, paddles and other odds and ends for probably around 700$.  Instead, now we're struggling to pay off debt and buy plane tickets to go home at the end of next month.