Back in January, I shared our financial goals for the year, just as I have done for the past few years. Perhaps some of you detail-oriented readers noticed that after my first quarterly report, I stopped posting progress reports for 2023. There were three main reasons for this. First, our lives were turned upside down …
Welp, the first quarter of 2023 is now in the books, and it’s time for the (first) day of reckoning this year — how did we do on our financial goals during these first three months? I will say this — while we haven’t made the progress we would have hoped for yet this year …
I’ve always considered myself to be pretty decent with handling my money, but I would also admit pretty readily that in the past, I was a bit lazy about it. Sure, I’d made a loose budget of some sort or other most months since my husband and I first got married nearly 12 years ago, …
Last year wasn’t a great year for us financially due to a lot of factors, but I’m harnessing the hope of a fresh start and counting on 2023 being better. I ended up just throwing out my 2022 financial goals halfway through the year when I could see that very few were going to even …
Being the goal-oriented person I am, I always seem to be about a month or two ahead of myself. When I was younger, it used to drive my friends a little crazy because when someone would ask me how old I was, I would more often than not say the next age up (“I’ll be …
We moved into our current home on November 27, 2020 after a whirlwind several months of house hunting during a hot housing market. We were very fortunate to find the house we did at the price we did, which was largely thanks to us stumbling across a For Sale By Owner listing that happened to …
When setting these goals back in early January, I definitely was going with a “go big or go home” kind of a theme. The reasoning behind it was that the financial goals I’d set for my second 101 in 1001 list, which I had considered real “stretch” goals, have now all been completed except for …
Like the rest of the world, we have not been immune to rising food costs, empty grocery shelves, and inflation occurring on everything from our heating and utility bills (which were already on the high side due to our home being older) to the gas we put in our vehicles (which was already more expensive …
