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 …
Jan 02 2013
I try and keep track of every single penny Eric and I earn and spend. It’s not too time consuming and I enjoy it. I decided to compare how our money was spent last year, as opposed to this year because we’ve had a LOT of changes. For every $100 we earned, we spent on …
Dec 14 2012
This is a guest post from my blog buddy, Budget Blonde. If you’d like to submit your own debt payoff story, email me at newlywedsonabudget at gmail Not long ago, I lived in a nice townhouse in a posh area of Richmond, Virginia. You could walk a few blocks from my house and head to …
Nov 01 2012
I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween yesterday! My company gets really into it, and I was happy that most of my department dressed up. This was my pregnant nun costume: And these were some of the, um, creative, entries in the pumpkin carving contest: I was super excited about this year’s Halloween, because it …
Aug 22 2012
I’ve sort of taken a break from talking about our finances, because frankly, it’s exhausting saying the same thing over and over again. It’s also apparent that we’re not making as much progress this year as we did last year. But we’re also not living in a shack anymore and saving up to live off …
