FPU UPDATE: I QUIT MY JOB!
I finally did it! 3 weeks ago today I told my boss and coworkers I was leaving. 1 week ago today I had my last and final day at XTO Energy. 12 years & 5 months in and I quit […]
I finally did it! 3 weeks ago today I told my boss and coworkers I was leaving. 1 week ago today I had my last and final day at XTO Energy. 12 years & 5 months in and I quit […]
We just paid below the 100K mark on our house! We now owe 99,987! But wait! That’s not the big news! After seeing the new balance on the computer of our house payment I wanted to be excited but I […]
January 2013 Update: I haven’t done an FPU update since September! Whoops!! To recap the past couple of months we refinanced our house, got our emergency fund back up and completed at 20K & started on our ‘baby fund'(for […]
September Update: Hey guys! We are just about to hit 20K in our emergency fund! We have $19,621.50. Unfortunately, it’s about to jump down a bit because we are REFINANCING! This is actually a great thing though. After we […]
Happy Anniversary! Exactly a year ago today I was elated to post a Sept update with a debt free scream! In just 18 months we managed to pay off over $32,000 in debt & over the last year we haven’t […]
We are almost halfway done funding our emergency fund! It’s a pretty good size already, I really can’t complain! And remember you have your emergency fund for emergencies and so you don’t have to use a credit card, you just […]
Our emergency plan has proven to be a success!! Although we aren’t able to put tons of money into our emergency fund right now, we are paid up on bills/necessities through September! If you are self employed and/or have sporadic […]
I seem to be quick to jump on here and announce our totals during the good months, and MIA during the bad months. Shame on me. 🙁 But like I warned in March, we had to use our emergency fund. […]
March! I’m way late in getting our March update posted. These are our official numbers for March although we may have to use some of our emergency fund to help out with our expenses until Jareds work has more ups. […]
February! Our 2nd FPU class was last week. I didn’t get to attend the first class because the little guy was sick. Week 2 is ‘Relating with Money’ Nerd and Free Spirits unite. I made these awesome signs for everyone […]