1. Pay off remaining Credit Card Debt. Balance $4500.00 At one point this year, our credit card debt was as high as $13,000. Due to the generosity of my mom, our debt is down to $550.00. This is very exciting for us! So close to getting rid of the credit card debt!
1. Dental work for husband. New crown for one of his back molars. $340.00 Bought and paid for.
2.. New suit for husband. My husband shops in Big and Tall (he is 6'5'). He needed a new suit right away because he was speaking at my dad's memorial. $500.00 Done.
3. The rental house needs new tile in the kitchen. the dishwasher leaked and the laminate floring is buckling. Cost: Unknown at this point.... getting estimates. Tile and supplies are bought and paid for. The job will cost us $150.00. Due to mom's health adventures we have yet to arrange for the tile job.
2. Increase saving to $5000.00. Currently we are at 2600.00 dollars in savings. Last year we had about $1,200.00 in savings, so we are making some progress. We are hovering around $2700.00 now, but definitely are hoping to increase it.
3. Save $1200.00 for Christmas,Weddings, and Birthdays. This year, we took a hit our budget with unplanned weddings and some special birthdays. Going to do better this year. Christmas I will still plan to keep it around $500.00
No, nothing saved yet.
4. Save $2000.00 for a trip to Las Vegas in Spring. We have been planning for a while to take a trip to Las Vegas this Spring. These plans are sorta on hold. It depends on mom's health and if she still want to go to Wisconsin for dad's final resting place. We have no plans to go anywhere to far for vacation. Mom's health will keep us close to home this year.
5. Begin contributing to my Roth again. I have not made any contributions to my retirement accounts since I lost my full time job almost 18 months ago. I have move all of my account to Vanguard and I will begin an automatic withdrawal from my checking to start in January 2013 of $200.00 per month. I do not have automatic withdrawal set up yet, BUT I can contribute via the Vanguard App on my iPhone. So far, I have added $100.00 this year.
6. After all of the above are accomplished, it will be time to apply all extra money (at least $7000.00) to our primary mortgage. The balance on our primary mortgage is $98,800. We want very much to reduce the mortgage to $90,000 by the end of the year.
No additional payments made yer.
Lets recap the above:
The amount of extra or redirected money need to accomplish these goals for 2013 is
credit card debt 500.00
gifts 1200.00
vacation 750.00
mortgage extra 7000.00 (or $580.00 extra per month)
TOTAL 9450.00
Being able to visualize the Financial Goals I have set will help me to reach my goal for 2013!
8 comments:
Looks like you're making some good progress.
You will be credit card free in no time. Good work!
It is going in the right direction!
That was such a great blessing from your mother! :) You're doing so well overall, Lisa! You've had a tough year, give yourself a pat on the back!
You're making GREAT progress Lisa! Well done :)
Thanks Laura! :)
You are so close to paying off your C/C debt - that's amazing and how wonderful of your mom to help you out. I hope her health has improved a bit.
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