Progress as of 4/7/19:
Car Loans - $0 + $29152 =
$29,152 -
$12,397 change from the beginning of the year
House Fund =
$18,694 -
$1,044 change from the beginning of the year
Emergency Fund =
$2,906 -
$627 change from the beginning of the year
First car is not officially paid off, but currently that money is set aside and earning interest (~$1800 left). We made some big payments on the other car this past week, and still have another $3000 or so to put towards it this month. I was waiting for a new credit card to come to make the remaining payments. DH is also supposed to get his commission for another job this month, so hopefully we can continue these big leaps.
We were very close on our eating out budget last month, and then right at the end DHs friend wanted to meet for dinner. He lives up in the mountains a bit (we're in the north Denver metro) and also works opposite schedule (nights/weekends and 3-4 12hr days) so we went over a bit for that. And we're floating a little from DHs work travels because he doesn't get his expense check for last month until the 10th (and he also has traveled the first three days of this month now).
I have zero updates on the whole weight/exercise stuff, but we have our upcoming week planned out including dinners and gym time. Also now that it is nice out (and dry, the biggest thing) I'm going to attempt taking the dogs for walks some, as that is the most enjoyable type of exercise to me. The hard things here are we live on dirt roads, so when it's wet it's a muddy mess, there are 3 dogs and one is a good walker, one is passable, and one is horrible so walking all at once alone or even with DH doesn't go well, DHs family has never been big dog walkers so it's weird to him (they swim them in the pool everyday in the summer)... It's nice today so maybe when I get home from work!
In more exciting news, we're taking a trip for Flower and Garden! I'm so excited, I wanted to go 2 years ago when we had APs for a long weekend but couldn't really make it work with saving $$ and PTO for the wedding/honeymoon and paying down student loans aggressively. We were determined to go this year but weren't sure when because of DHs work travels, but we finally narrowed it down (only about three weeks out
). Right now we're at just under $200 cash for flights/hotels after leveraging some credit card points. Now we just need to decide 1. come home Mon night or Tues morning, it's all on cc points so $0 OOP it just uses a few more of them, 2. do I $0 out the current cash cost with some cc cashback or pull it from our travel budget, and 3. do I use the travel budget or my Disney GC stash for food (I've got ~$1k in the GC stash, which is about what I predicted we'd need for extras on our cruise in June, but on the other hand I have 2.5mths to make it up if we use some on this trip... I'll probably do some of both).
2019 starting balances:
Car Loans - $7616 + $33933 = $41,549
House Fund = $17,650
Emergency Fund = $2,279
Progress as of 1/30/19:
Car Loans - $5216 + $33485 = $37,746 - $3,803 change from the beginning of the year
House Fund = $17,650 - $0 change from the beginning of the year
Emergency Fund = $2,323 - $44 change from the beginning of the year
Weight goal - 0%, 20 weeks to go
Progress as of 3/4/19:
Car Loans - $0 + $33024 = $33,024 - $8,525 change from the beginning of the year
House Fund = $18,290 - $640 change from the beginning of the year
Emergency Fund = $2,704 - $425 change from the beginning of the year
Weight goal - ?%, 16 weeks to go (need to weigh myself...)
