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Fall Into Savings

August 31, 2022 We have been busy bees this summer running around to different events, birthday parties, family outings, amongst other things. We are now gearing up for back to school and had to plan for a lot of expenses from school supplies to new clothes for both of our children. As fall approaches, we are hoping that as events are less frequent and as we find plans for inexpensive family fun, we can have a concrete savings plan. We are hoping to have a down payment fund for a house, an emergency fun, investments, and savings all as priorities moving forward.We are grateful we were able to refinance a high-interest personal loan with Summit so we can save greatly on interest and lower our monthly payment. We are hoping to put that savings towards one of our funds. There are so many things to plan for in the future and when you move away from focusing only on surviving and when you learn how to make your money work for you, you can create a savings plan that will help you thrive.We are feeling closer and closer to our goals every day and are thankful for this opportunity and experience. It has taught us SO MUCH in just a few short months. As the summer comes to an end, we can look back on it and feel no regrets, we only feel pride that we have been taking the necessary steps to become financially free. The big concert we sold our tickets to put towards household expenses was last Saturday and even though we feel a little bit of FOMO, we mostly feel proud.Thanks for following along! You might also be interested in The past six months have been so transformative for us, and it is hard not to get emotional as we write this last blog post. We are finally financially... And where the heart is, of course… This week has been so trying. We are all recovering (slowly) from the flu that hit us HARD. Dominique and Megan both... We are finally moved into our new home and fully out of our apartment. It was hard to say goodbye to the apartment we had many good memories in, but we... We finally closed on our home on November 30 and have been slowly working on moving responsibilities over the past few days. We have had to make a lot... This week we are coming off of a long weekend after Thanksgiving where we are feeling immense gratitude for so many things. We are thankful for our financial... We were notified this week that we have been cleared to close for our new home. We are so excited to move in and have been so blessed with amazing friends... This week we have been struggling with juggling multiple schedules, illness, outside priorities and activities, and a tumultuous election season. We have... This week we have been working on several things. Our son was accepted to our first-choice preschool and we have been overjoyed. With that joy, there is... This week we worked on spending less and we think we did a better job than previous weeks. We prepared a lot more meals at home and planned to not spend...