Our Progress: Month 4
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Read Our Progress: A Summary
Read Our Progress: Month 1
Read Our Progress: Month 2
Read Our Progress: Month 3
It’s time I stop putting this off. April. This is the part of the journey we work and press on intentionally in the momentum we started. While there is nothing exciting about working 70 hours a week in and of itself, when you have a purpose behind it, it is exciting enough.
Wegmans is going well. I’ve averaged 20 hours a week so far. My second week I worked six days in a row. Just when I was getting used to working every day, I got almost a week off. When I’m not working, I’m crawling around the floor with the kids or looking for things to sell on craigslist.
Even with gas prices rising, we stayed $20 under budget in that category and it is the same it has been for the past year. We made up for it, though, in our water bill.
We paid exactly $2,000 towards debt in April.
Keep working! You’ll make progress brick by brick by brick. Share your progress.
There are at least 2 BIG updates I’m waiting to post, so be looking out for them.
Have you ever had that nagging feeling that there was something more to do with your life? I don’t remember exactly when it started for me...
yay for paying off debt!!
We are down to 1 car payment and no other consumer debt. We started last August and the first thing we did was sell my car. We used 1/2 the cash for debt and 1/2 for a different car. Now, I’m realizing that car isn’t what we need anymore (things change), so I’m going to sell it and buy something smaller. We aren’t able to sell the truck (owe too much), so we’ll keep plugging away.
It’s a slow & grueling process, but I got myself into the mess. =)
Great job. Keep it up.
@Mandy. it’s hard consistently making the right decisions, especially when they are to reverse bad decisions. but you’re right–i got myself in the mess, and i shouldn’t rely on another person or government program to get me out.
you’re doing a great job too!