Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 8, 2020
ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). We had worked all year to send extra monthly payments to that final loan and on that early morning I realized the balance was finally at a level that we could pay it off with some of our savings. This is a work in progress and I feel it will always by my goal. Moving on to 2020!
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 20, 2023
Did you make 2023 financial goals ? We decided on one big audacious financial goal for the year, and it’s a doozy! The last time we wrote numbers-driven financial goals was 2019. That was the year that we made the goal of paying off the last of our non-mortgage debts and we achieved it by September of that year.
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Family Balance Sheet
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Hello, 2020. Right before the pandemic started, I opened 529 College Savings Accounts for our daughters. My oldest was in eighth grade and one of my goals for 2020 was to start saving consistently for both daughters’ college education. My Upromise strategy will help with our goal. What is Upromise?
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 2, 2021
After 2019, I had a lot of hope for finding a word for 2020 but struggled to find one that was meaningful to me. After writing some financial goals that had a lot to do with researching topics, such as retirement and college savings strategies, I realized that maybe my word for 2020 was READ. Enter 2021.
Couponing 101
JANUARY 1, 2020
New Year’s resolutions are so common that we’re sure you know at least a few people who are preparing to fulfill their goals for 2020. But while many people set ambitious goals, we don’t think New Year’s resolutions need to be epic in order to improve your life.
Savings Corner
DECEMBER 23, 2023
from the same time last year, nearer to the Fed’s 2% goal and down from 2.9% in its first decline since April 2020. from the same time last year but is nearer to the Fed’s 2% goal and down from 2.9% The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index grew 2.6% in the prior month. The index was up 2.6%
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
This money gets sent automatically to the 529 accounts we set up for our girls in 2020. I started searching and test drove a pre-owned Highlander in January 2020. We had very little saved for a new-to-us car and we would have had to take out a loan to cover most of it, and that made me uneasy about purchasing the car.
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