I know many of us here practice the concept of capturing what we call snowflakes. Snowflakes are normally considered the amounts of money you may get back from returning items, rebates, coming in under budget, etc... In order to determine what my 2014 snowflake goal will be I'm curious what everyone considers snowflakes to be.
Historically I haven't counted any increases in my military retirement pay or VA payment as snowflakes but now I'm thinking why not count them? It's always said "the more we make, the more we tend to spend". While I was in the military, the one thing I practiced was whenever I got promoted or a raise, I took that increase and saved it because I was use to living without it anyway. That way when I reached higher ranks, I was still living off of what I made earlier in my career.
I say all of this to ask you whether you think pay raises or cost of living adjustments of any sort should be considered as snowflakes?
What Do You Count as Snowflakes?
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I don't think it really matters - savings is the end goal. (It kind of annoys me to over-think these things - kind of defeats the purpose?)
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