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?”
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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 Back at Week 1
I have two main goals with our money going forward. One obviously will be paying off debt and two is increasing our savings at the same time. For us, savings is more of a way to have money for unexpected repairs and expenses but hopefully we can save above and beyond what I have beenContinue reading “Not Impressed with our Debt Back at Week 1”