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Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 7, 2011
May Update: Year to date progress towards 2018 goals:
Car Loan: $8,100 towards a $14,000 goal
Savings: $2,200 towards a $5,000 goal (major backtracking here – had to take money out of savings to cover some of our expenses for the month – but it will still be ok by the end of the year)
Mortgage Overpay: $2,000 towards a $7,000 goal (updated goal)
DS13 College Fund: $2,500 towards a $3,000 goal (updated goal)
Personal goal: 28 pounds lost. A big part of my May overspending was on clothes. I just couldn’t make a lot of the stuff in my closet work any longer.
DS13 hit his growth spurt this past year and I had to buy some new summer clothes for him as well (and shoes – he went up 2.5 sizes from his previous pair! Parenting fail!).
I’ve changed some of my goals around – upped what I want to overpay on the mortgage, and reduced college fund savings – which is ok. We have a very nice college fund already for DS13 and after some calculations I realized I could slow down my investments there and we will still have enough to cover his needs when the time comes.
I’ve been struggling a bit with the reduced income from my new job. We are still perfectly fine, but I had gotten into the habit of being able to buy the spontaneous, non-necessities pretty much whenever I wanted, and having to watch my spending in those areas has been difficult, but June shouldn’t be a bad month so I’m hoping to get things back on track. My birthday is coming up next week and I did splurge and scheduled a massage for myself, but pretty sure my husband will happily cover that as my gift.
Car Loan: $8,100 towards a $14,000 goal
Savings: $2,200 towards a $5,000 goal (major backtracking here – had to take money out of savings to cover some of our expenses for the month – but it will still be ok by the end of the year)
Mortgage Overpay: $2,000 towards a $7,000 goal (updated goal)
DS13 College Fund: $2,500 towards a $3,000 goal (updated goal)
Personal goal: 28 pounds lost. A big part of my May overspending was on clothes. I just couldn’t make a lot of the stuff in my closet work any longer.
DS13 hit his growth spurt this past year and I had to buy some new summer clothes for him as well (and shoes – he went up 2.5 sizes from his previous pair! Parenting fail!).
I’ve changed some of my goals around – upped what I want to overpay on the mortgage, and reduced college fund savings – which is ok. We have a very nice college fund already for DS13 and after some calculations I realized I could slow down my investments there and we will still have enough to cover his needs when the time comes.
I’ve been struggling a bit with the reduced income from my new job. We are still perfectly fine, but I had gotten into the habit of being able to buy the spontaneous, non-necessities pretty much whenever I wanted, and having to watch my spending in those areas has been difficult, but June shouldn’t be a bad month so I’m hoping to get things back on track. My birthday is coming up next week and I did splurge and scheduled a massage for myself, but pretty sure my husband will happily cover that as my gift.