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    Default Paid off the visa

    Paid off the visa yesterday, moving on to my truck in January, that will be done in April then it is on to piling up the cash, doing mutual fund and paying off the home.


    WHEEEEEEE

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    Woot!
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    Congratulations!

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    Way to go Lisa!!!!
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    2012 Exercise Challenge - 5,358 min
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    2012 Reading Challenge - 3 /12
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    Way to go!!
    ~*Michelle*~

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    Congratulations Lisa!
    Bank of America is THE godfather of Hell with Wells Fargo running neck and neck. When the world ends the only things that will be left are cockroaches, Walmart, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Not necessarily in that order. The order remains to be seen.

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    What a wonderful holiday gift to yourself! WTG!
    2012: The Year Of The Purge!

    UPDATED: MAY 15/12

    2012 FLING - 673/2012 | COUPON SAVINGS $178.93

    EMERGENCY FUND #2 - $510.78 | VACATION FUND - $513.58 | CHANGE JAR $222.51

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    Congrats!!

    What a roll you are on...............keep up the good work!
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    Good job! WTG.

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    Congratulations!
    No spend challenge: 10/30

    No eat out challenge: 0/31

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    April coups: $10

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    Sounds like you have a great plan in place for being debt free!
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    Thumbs up for you! Looking forward to hear if that truck's driving better this spring, not dragging that payment book around.....


    May:
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    Coupons/drug store rewards: $759.04
    $ spent getting coupons:$92.70
    2011 total savings:$2068.18 2010:$1066.58

    Meatless dinner: 13/52
    Weight loss challenge:1.4/35

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    great job !!
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    “Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more;
    Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
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    Getting Gazelle like 7/1/10
    Paid off 6 CC's totalling $6807 in 2010
    Paid off car 9000
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    Congratulations!
    May Goals:
    Only $300 for groceries this month - $206/$300
    Monthly coupon/valued customer savings = $14.08
    No wasted food!
    Stick to budget!
    Track spending DAILY
    Get checkbook balanced
    Save $200 toward EF: $85/$200

    2012 FV Challenges: Try New Recipes Challenge: 22/52, Menu Planning Challenge: 21/52, Grocery Reduction Budget Challenge, Change Jar Challenge: $27.81 as of 1-14-12, Lose A Pound A Week Challenge: 3/48, No Wasted Food Challenge

    2012 Goals

    1. To pay off CC (only $917.15 left!) and never again charge more than I can pay off each month.
    2. Snowball the CC payment into Sears Credit Card bill (no interest) and get it paid off ASAP.
    3. Snowball the CC and Sears card payments into hospital bill (due w/ Baby #2 via C-section in mid-January). Pay that off ASAP.4. Snowball payments into DH's student loan (as of 12/4/11 there's still $4770.84 remaining). Pay off by 12/31/12.
    5. Keep our grocery budget to $300 each month.
    6. Use Dave Ramsey's budget sheet and get on track with this each pay period.
    7. Get and keep checkbook balanced and keep an eye (weekly if not daily) on our e-statements.
    8. Get savings account up to $8,000 (incl. emergency fund)
    9. Make 2 Christmas gifts per month: 0/24.
    10. Get our home organized: use a receipt book, keep my coupon organizer in check, have a touch-once policy for paper (touch once and then file or toss).
    11. Achieve "give or get" goal of $1500 for the board I serve on by 9/30/12.
    12. Taxes filed by March 17.

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