At the end of August I had an interesting comment from my 20 year old. He said mom, if I hadn’t already known about your plans to pay off your credit card I would not have noticed you were in save mode. In other words our lifestyle hasn’t changed much in the last 3 monthsContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – September Update”
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Week 32-36 What We Ate and How Much We Spent on Groceries
Happy September 1st! Time for the August grocery shopping update. I budgeted $400 for groceries this month because there were five weeks in August. Total spent on groceries for August $438.39 that’s $38.39 over budget. I’ll have to do better in September for sure but considering I was $60 under budget last month I stillContinue reading “Week 32-36 What We Ate and How Much We Spent on Groceries”
Not Impressed with our Debt – August Update
Paying off debt is stressful. Why can’t we talk about that stress more? Why is talking about our finances still taboo? Something to be hidden? Is it a shame thing? Are we are afraid we won’t measure up? Lots of questions to answer there. Again for the month of August I did not think anyContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – August Update”
Not Impressed with our Debt – July Update
Going into this new plan for paying off one of our credit cards I knew July and August would be the toughest months. For the month of July I did not think any farther ahead than the week I was in. Putting all of my paycheck into the credit card debt and living off theContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – July Update”
Not Impressed with our Debt – Ok I have Had Enough
Marriages and relationships are funny aren’t they? One wants one thing and the other wants something else. When you can’t agree on how to spend your money and what your goals are then that’s when debt creeps in and then of course debt causes stress, blah, blah, blah. Since January we have barely been ableContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – Ok I have Had Enough”
Not Impressed with our Debt – How Much Did Christmas set us Back?
As a child Christmas was my favorite holiday but as an adult it’s a stressor. I don’t know how my parents did it or how much debt it put them in each year but they were amazing. Reflecting back on Christmas 2021 thankfully the debt numbers aren’t so bad for this year’s holiday. Going intoContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – How Much Did Christmas set us Back?”
Not Impressed with our Debt – Week 17
October was a really tough month that’s why I didn’t post. Do you ever just have months where you have the same income as always but it doesn’t seem to be enough? A few things came up to set us back this month but they were very necessary. One of those things was fixing ourContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – Week 17”
Not Impressed with our Debt – Week 12
Looking back on September it has been a big month. My husband gets paid weekly and I get paid bi-weekly. In September there were 5 paychecks for him and 3 paychecks for me. That means it should have been easy for us to meet our $1200 goal of paying down our debt in September, right?Continue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – Week 12”
Not Impressed with our Debt – Week 11
It was a good week last week! At the end of Week 11 we are at $31,324.15 for debt amount and $650.00 in savings. That’s a decrease of $573.54 in debt and $120 increase in savings! Here’s the breakdown for the month of September so far: Week 8 – $32,343.54 Weeks 9 and 10 –Continue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – Week 11”
Not Impressed with our Debt – Weeks 9 and 10
Last update I reported that we had met our monthly goal for August with some crafty extra sales in my Etsy shop. This month so far has been almost as good for Etsy sales so I think we are still on track to meet our goal of paying off another $1200 in debt and addingContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt – Weeks 9 and 10”
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