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what big things ($$ wise) are you doing in 2012
I am thinking of replacing the carpet in my bedroom...i haven't decided if i want to replace with just carpet or wood...feedback appreciated!...
Re: what big things ($$ wise) are you doing in 2012
Great topic!
I got a substantial bonus when my company sold this month and our "big thing" is NOT spending a penny of it!
We're newlyweds and currently renting, so we decided to spend it on a house. Maybe it will become a down-payment by the end of the year.... but I have a feeling that won't happen until 2013.
Replacing our stair railing/balusters with wrought iron and box newels. Maybe getting new carpet in bedrooms, game room and stairs. Maybe total gut redo of our master bathroom. I just haven't decided, yet. Also taking a skiing vacation and maybe a dive trip.
I think wood or carpet is good. We just like carpet in bedrooms.
Selling almost everything we own. Renting out our house. Moving to Asia.
REALLY?!
We will definitely be buying a new to us car this year. One that can fit 7 two and four legged family members without someone having to catch the bus or ride on the roof.
We'll be moving again, but I don't think buying a house is going to be in the cards.
Oh, and meeting our medial deductible in the first half of the year. Again.
We are paying off another credit card(we just paid one off that will save us about $125 per month with DH's bonus)
Paying off my car a few months early.
Buy a few small things for the house including a throw rug for our den and curtains for our kitchen.
Save more per month for my IRA and Tyler's college savings.
This will be the year we pay things off!
like!
twins. that will pause anything else big for a while, due to $$, time and sanity.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
1st pregnancy: BFP- 6/28/09 - Found out we lost our little girl on 10/9/09 at 19w 4d - D&E- 10/14/09
June 2010, corrective surgery for Septate Uterus and large fibroids
2nd pregnancy: BFP- 10/18/10 - Slow rising, non-doubling HCGs, no heart beat. Non-viable pregnancy, D&C- 11/12/10
Started Metformin 6/30/11, Started Clomid 7/20/11 - Unsuccessful
HSG and Laparoscopic surgery revealed blocked tubes and lots of scar tissue...IVF here we come!!!
Surprise BFP naturally!!! IT'S A BOY!!!
buying a new car for me (maybe this year if we can get a good deal)
taking a trip to Singapore/Bali
taking a trip to Paris with Finley
taking a third trip in the fall, possibly Disney or Nevis
F1 race in Austin
So Tasty, So Yummy
Good luck Allison! I really hope 2012 brings you a baby.
As for us, money will probably be a little tight but it will all be worth it. I gave my two weeks last Monday and this Friday is my last day! I will be staying home with my girls and I'm so excited. I will be working on projects though and working on my dreams for a change.
We may take a trip to Amman Jordan and Dubai to visit DH's sisters in the summer.
Yeah, for DH's job.
So, add to that list: quitting my job.
Paying off at least one car and hopefully two.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
Big events for some of you!! Congrats!!
We are having our Baby Boy in April, so all the expenses that go with that. Buying/Selling Real Estate.
Oh let's see...
I'm almost done paying off a cc. I think 1 or 2 more payments and I'm finito!
Definitely start looking at houses in the hopes of buying one this summer. Can't take the apartment living anymore. DH and I are ready!
Go to Vegas (neither one of us has been), skydiving this spring, a cruise.
Praying I find a job that pays more and that I'm actually happy working at.
As for babies... Not anytime soon. Thought about trying in the fall but I think we can wait another year. If it happens, it happens!
Paris/Spain December 2012.
Cancun in June
and Possibly Lake Tahoe in July.
The face of Kitty-Hate
I hope we are getting new kitchen and bathroom countertops and getting the floors retiled.
ETA: I prefer carpeted bedrooms for the sound dampening qualities. My parents replaced the carpet in the upstairs bedrooms with hardwoods when I was in high school and it was much harder to sleep if anyone else in the house wasn't in bed yet.
Ditto, baby in April and hopefully car in August.
Plus, we are talking about turning our formal living into a study which would include putting up a wall and french doors.
Purchase DH a new/ new to us truck
My car and our debt will be paid off (except for student loan)
Various projects around the house