Oh man, I just looked at my goals that I made last December. Can we say "not even close?"
But, we have had a
lot of fun and made some amazing memories leading up to my husband's year away in Japan. He just left last week.
Our Vegas weekend was THE BEST WEEKEND OF MY LIFE. We just spent three glorious nights at the Grand Californian for a family staycation, and have gone out to eat at all my husband's favorite restaurants in a sort of marathon of dining out. Tomorrow, I head to Great Wolf Lodge with my kids, sister, and nephew for 2 nights and that will be the last "hurrah" of spending for awhile.
Now it's time to buckle down for the rest of the year, and I'm going to update my goals right now, as a sort of mid year reality check.
Pay off remaining CC debt and incur NO MORE. $3500 to go.
Busted. New CC debt of $9270 due to deciding to use a balance transfer to free up a few thousand dollars for expenses related to husband's move to Japan. It's 0% for 18 months, so the payments will be $515/month. A combination of factors led to necessitating this.
Increase my Roth IRA contributions from $100 to $500 per month. I will start this in April.
Haven't started this yet, but will start in September.
Save $35,000 by end of year. I will be opening an Ally Savings account in January to earn my 2% interest.
I opened the Ally account and should be on track to save $12000 by the end of the year, and our new goal is to have $50,000 by September 2020, which is doable.
Pay in full for our
Disneyland AP renewal at the end of August. I plan to use my income from my part time spring scoring job to accomplish this goal. Who knows what the prices will be but I am estimating $4500 for 4 Signature passes.
So, my part time spring job was a bust this year. I only made about $2500, which has already been spent. On the bright side, we only need to renew THREE signature passes this year, at a cost of $3747 with Maxpass added. I don't know yet if I will pay upfront or continue to put a down payment and finance using monthly payments. Probably going to just pay for them upfront, but we will see.
Lose 20-30 pounds. 10-15 is probably more realistic, but I'm aiming high here. Why not?
I lost 5 pounds and have been holding steady there, which is something, but not where I want to be. But again, we've been eating out a TON and traveling and just overdoing it, so now that I'm basically just cooking for me (my kids don't eat my food), I can get serious about weight loss for the rest of the year. My new goal is to get down another 10 pounds by year's end.