QOTD 5/20

minionlover · May 2013

Do you have a 5-year plan?

xxjen015 · May 2013

Not specifically. H just got his first big boy job, do that will help. We want to save for a down payment on a house, and for a new car for me. We want to stay TTC after about 3 years of marriage. I'll now try to figure out what i want to do with my life!

goatlady12 · May 2013

Sort of. I've been thinking about going back to school, so that would alter it a bit. We keep pushing back the idea of having kids, we may not have them at all. It all depends on how the next year plays out.

mana8503 · May 2013

ME? Type-A control freak?! Of course I do haha

Not really for work, I'd like to start on a masters. No rush to hammer it out. Maybe class here and there, unless I get into the program at work where I do it online on work hours.

Life:

Working on debt right now. If we stick to it, CC, 2 SLs and Jeep will be paid off this time next year. That leaves H's Car and mortgage. Since H's car is helping his credit we will pay more, but not gun-ho pay it off. Then we will build 6 months in savings and TTC. We'd be living off my income and saving H's so it will only take a few months to get to 6 months. Then I want to pay 1/12 more on mortgage a month (extra month paid every year), set up a savings for stepkids, and our future kids for college etc, and set H's IRA up.

We'd like 2 kids of our own, but would like to be ready to take on custody of stepkids if/when the time comes. (There's been some drama there)

I'd like to decorate a few rooms in the house and get a deck/patio with built-in firepit.

brainybrunette · May 2013

I'm type A as well...so I've had 5 year plans for as long as I can remember LOL!

Finish Ph.D. (should happen in the fall!)

Move to DC area / find job or temporary post doc

Find a job doing what I actually want to do if I have to go the post doc route

Rent for awhile to get used to the area and then eventually buy a house

Start having kids (we'd like to have 2)

Keep chipping away at student loan debt and continue adding to our savings

minionlover · May 2013

My 5 year plan is simple. Buy a house and have 2 kids. Hopefully we will have the first part done by the end of the year.

mpjf1001 · May 2013

I always have a plan....most of it is checked off...

Get my masters...check

H will have his masters in Dec/Jan

Buy a house....check

Get married....check

start having kids....check

pay off cc debt...work in progress but we are really close

pay off 1 car loan, we have 2...this should be done by the end of 2013

We are working on paying our student loans off and putting $ in savings.

I would also like to have a my job back, but some people refuse to retire.

H to get an engineering job

mrshall1027 · May 2013

Our plan is to:

Have a baby

Pay off all of our debt - cc's, student loans, remodel, and furniture accounts (most will be paid off late this year/early next year and completely debt free by 2015)

Get my company in a great place

Buy our dream cars (me - BMW X5, H - 2015 Ford Atlas)

Sell our house and build our dream home

Start flipping homes

sjs1013 · May 2013

Ours is basic and probably not 5 years long.

Get a house and start a family. We want 2 kids. H has some student loans, so finish paying them off. If he continues paying the way he has been, they'll be paid off in about 2 years.

pengy16 · May 2013

I had a plan but a lot has changed.

get married, work on my career (I wanted to be further along in the career but the economy kinda put a kink in that situation), pay down debt (still years away from that), then 3-5 years into marriage start working on a family (now that might change due to H timeline and my medical stuff).

At this point I kinda gave up on the whole plan and just sort of just decided we will let whatever happen.

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