Every year, I set some money aside in our flexible spending account.  I never put much since it’s use it or lose it.  This year we allocated $300 because I knew I needed some new glasses.  It’s been two years since my last pair of lenses and I knew my prescription had slightly changed since then.

So this Saturday, Mr. Savvy and I headed to LensCrafters.  One hour later, we were $600 poorer.  Ugh!  A new pair of prescription glasses for me (for reading at work) plus ANOTHER pair of prescription glasses for me (for driving at night) and a pair of non-prescription sunglasses for hubby.  I feel like an old lady with all these glasses and of course, insurance only covered the first pair.  It was a semi-unplanned expense but as fortune would have it, I got an expected sum of money recently. 

In other news, $1800 left to max out my 2009 IRA and ~$7000 left on the car loan.  I should meet both of those goals but it will be down to the wire (April 15th and June 30th, respectively) for both.  After that, I will boost my ’slush’ savings a bit.  We have several weddings to attend this year (as well as wedding gifts to buy) and we want to get some new furniture for the basement.   Up next, a few decisions we need to make soon.