My Frugal Miser - January Income: $7,573

January was a decent month - before we opened the restaurant we had allocated a pre-opening salary, but we deferred paying it until 2011 to avoid issuing W-2s. It doesn't look like I'll be taking much of a salary any time soon so January will be the exception, not the norm.

January Income
$957 Mystery Shopping*
$3,289 Rental Income

$3,000 Salary
$326 Other Sources
$7,573 Total Income for November
*I did virtually no mystery shopping in January; this represents payments made for work done in the past.

Notes:

• Rental income was lower than normal. I paid fire dues on 4 properties and had a couple of other irregular bills.
• The category "Other Sources" includes non-recurring (or semi-recurring) income since I always seem to have a little something that doesn't fall into the other buckets.