May 20 2013
The Great First, the GREAT news: I paid off my FOURTH Student Loan on Friday! Can I just add that this brings down my student loans to $13,788.01?!?!? I started off the year with $18,248.01 in student debt. I’ve paid off $4,460 in student loan debt in five months! Happy dance for me. It feels …
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 …
Dec 18 2012
Here are my goals for 2013! 1. Bring down my student loans to under $10,000 Would LOVE to make this happen. We have A LOT going on this year, so don’t really know if this will be a reality but that’s why it’s a goal right? 2. Pay Down Eric’s Student Loans Eric is in …
Dec 12 2012
By the end of 2011, Eric had just started working again after being a fire academy student for four months. This past year, he worked part-time for the first eight months of the year, and finally landed a full-time EMT job with a local fire department. This is how we did on our goals: 1. …
Oct 11 2012
Juice cleanse, juice fast, whatever you want to call it–For (almost) four days all I ate was juice. The benefits of such an endeavor are that it’s supposed to cut back on your cravings, rid you of your toxins and improve overall health. Let’s cut the B.S. okay? I wanted to lose weight fast. Over …
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 …
