Apr 17 2013
I know I’m crazy. Every day, I’m thankful that I married a man who is extremely patient and puts up with me, because I’m a freakin’ handful and if I weren’t me, I don’t think I’d want to hang out with me either. I woke up two Fridays ago excited for the weekend. That morning, …
Apr 03 2013
Well, my monthly budget updates only lasted one month. So maybe quarterly reports will be a bigger hit? Here is the state of our union on our 2013 goals. Financial Goals Bring down my student loans to under $10,000: On track I paid off my THIRD student loan this week! I started January 2013 with …
Mar 26 2013
My car needs to get new brakes, new tires, and new rotors (whatever those are). And an oil change. My younger brother is a budding mechanic so I asked if he could take care of it, and I would pay him for his time. He started telling me how much everything would cost. “Do you …
Mar 06 2013
There are days that I think Eric and I are doing pretty well financially–I wouldn’t consider ourselves well-off by any means, but we make a respectable income for a young married couple, I think. We both have stable jobs. We have no consumer debt. We pay all our bills on time. We save for retirement …
Mar 04 2013
Back in my ignorant youth (you know, like less than five years ago), I used to be obsessed with brand names. There wasn’t a brand name I didn’t like. I would go through phases where I would buy a lot of brand names for one particular item, like sunglasses, before I moved on to my …
Feb 04 2013
I decided to get back into monthly recaps on our budget and goals to see if we’re staying on track. Here was our proposed 2013 budget And this was our actual budget for January Due to our unexpected drop in income, savings and student loan repayment took a hit. I also added a column for …
