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Monday accountability!
1. How was your weekend?
2. Any progress on goals?
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays?
2. Any progress on goals?
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays?
Re: Monday accountability!
2. No progress. I need to call the mortgage company to see when the recast will be finalized. We will keep the payment the same to pay off early, but I feel better now that we have the flexibility.
3. I love the holidays. We will be hosting the in laws for thanksgiving. My parents will be here around Christmas, so we will have Christmas early with them.
1. Expensive!!!
Friday- $70 Dinner out at a nice restaurant (it's been a looong time since we've done this!)-cash
$175 on clothes for myself. All in cash!!
Saturday- $23 Pet meds cash
$32 Gas cash
Sunday $0
2. $111 to house down payment
$1000 to mortg principle
$124 to vacation savings
We also found out that our mortgage company made a payment out of escrow to our home insurance company for the year when we've been paying all along this year in conjunction with our auto insurance!! GRRRRR, I don't what happened but I need to call and straighten this out!! We should get a re-fund for everything that we've paid this year if all goes right.... I'm pissed!!!
3. We don't host any holidays so we will be going to family members houses for dinners.
2. Tomorrow we'll put $100 in savings and start a separate home repair account (will get $100/month).
3. We're in that awful vortex of visiting like three houses each holiday. We don't enjoy it at all, so maybe next year I'll try to host at least TG. I just need a bigger table and I'll be good to go.
1. How was your weekend?
Not so good... Friday went downtown, DH won free tickets to a comedy show. Then spent $50 in parking, drinks, appetizers.
Saturday we took an early Target trip, got the niece and nephew Christmas presents ($35 combined) and some other toiletries ($35). My parents came to visit and while the men worked on fixing DH's falling car window ($112 car budget), mom & I went shopping. I got new fall/winter clothes for $125 (not budgeted for). Parents took us out to dinner Saturday night (their treat) to celebrate DH's birthday early!
Sunday spent $32 in groceries.
2. Any progress on goals? Not till next payday (Friday).
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays? We live out of state from all family. We will be making the trip to my parents for Thanksgiving. Then mine for weekend before Christmas and DH's for week of Christmas. Both are road trips but still tough because our families do not live near us or each other.
2. Any progress on goals? We put $300 in savings, but no extra student loan payments this week.
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays? This year for Thanksgiving we're going to Vegas. (Anyone have any suggestions on things to see and do?!) For Christmas, it'll be making the rounds to all the families, who luckily live within a 100 mile radius of us. No hosting yet - but we likely will when we have kids and a larger house. Ours will most likely be the only grandchild(ren) for both our sets of parents.
2. Any progress on goals?
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays?
1. How was your weekend? No too bad. $18 at 5 Guys (Yumm), $30 at the grocery store, $35 at target for a halloween costume and nice sports bra on clearance (yay!), and $30 gas.
2. Any progress on goals? Continue to have auto payments toward debt and savings. Paid off some charges on my credit card immediately so I don't carry a balance.
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays? I am hosting Thanksgiving with my family (not on Thanksgiving thou) and Christmas Eve for H's. I'll spend Christmas day with my family and he'll spend it with his. We have way too many places to be on Holidays to spend them together, if we did we would spend the majority of the time in the car.
2. Any progress on goals?
We were able to cash flow a lot of very expensive things last month and carry over $500 into this month to hopefully help out the rest of the remodeling. There are a lot of things we're needing to spend money on in the next couple of months, but so far we've been able to cash flow everything and not touch savings. That's a huge plus!
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays?
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Pretty bad. Went to Target to buy duck tape; came out with a new vacuum cleaner ($75) and $60 worth of miscellaneous things. Other than that, just groceries for $80.
2. Any progress on goals?
No. This week would be the week that we usually put something in savings, but that isn't going to happen this month. We spent a lot last month on already planned "mini-vacations" and a new brick patio, so I don't feel too guilty.
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays?
On Thanksgiving I will be running my second half marathon, and then immediately afterwards I will be hosting H's parents and brother, as well as my parents. Yes, I bite off more than I can chew. We don't have plans for Christmas yet, but they will probably be more relaxed/less ambitious.
2. Any progress on goals? $500 into savings this weekend and we also have x-mas shopping for the girls complete (and their outfits for Thanksgiving and X-mas)!
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays? We have Thanksgiving at our house, but my parents bring all of the food and make it here.. all we have to do is clean the place and wash some dishes after (easy!). We go to DH's parents' house for X-mas night and bring a dish or two. We usually have them over in the morning to watch the girls open presents.. I make a big baked french toast. It's nice and relaxing- I love this time of the year!
2. Any progress on goals?
1. How was your weekend?
Not bad at all. Friday we stayed home. Saturday $80 groceries, $5 Starbucks, $8 at Home Goods, and $55 dinner out. Sunday $0.
2. Any progress on goals?
Moved money over to our savings accounts
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays?
I offered to host Thanksgiving this year! It will only be 5 people, including me and DH, but I am starting to get nervous. So if anyone had any advice, tips, etc, please share them.
2. Any progress on goals? We officially have $1300 saved for my next semester. We need $1700 more. Should be done by Dec. 1st.
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays? Heavens no. We are still the babies in our families so we are expected to come to all various houses.
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2. Any progress on goals? Besides automatic transfers, did pay an additional $65 on my credit card so I should be able to pay it off this month. I also added an additional $20 to my car payment since my last payment was returned after the post office messed up the label.
3. Will you be hosting for the holidays this year? Or how do you spend your holidays? We don't host. We go to MW's grandfather's for Thanksgiving with her extended family. Then we sometimes do something with my family if my parents are in town and if my brother and sister in law comes up. Since we are having our second sometime in December, target date is either Dec. 22nd or Christmas day depending on how you count, we are going to most likely take it easy for Christmas.
Check out pinterest! Also Martha Stewart has some really good but easy Thanksgiving recipes. Check her website. The first year I hosted I did a turkey with a Maple syrup glaze via her website. Everyone loved it! Just keep it simple and have fun!
I pinned some recipes on Sunday. Will definitely check out Martha's website. Thanks!