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The Importance Of Being Earnest

June 29, 2022 Wow, we cannot believe two weeks have flown by already and we are on week 3 of this financial transformation!There is definitely an initial shock of joining this competition and feeling anxious, vulnerable, and even unsure. As the initial shock wore off, we began to feel an overwhelming sense of serious and intense conviction to get this right.We have been struggling to find a sound family schedule as summer begins and that has hindered our ability to plan our finances this week, but we have committed to tracking every single dollar going into the rest of the competition. We are going to be earnest students in this journey to learn how to be financially healthy and free.Dom has been exceptional with keeping his weekly allowances at or under his goal and Megan is still working on it. This week we are dedicated to creating a good family schedule, updating our budget, and looking at where improvements can be made in our spending habits that we have observed in the initial weeks of the competition. We are feeling really confident we can find even more opportunities to save and pay more towards debt.Another exciting new change for our family is Megan was offered a new job with an amazing local non-profit as a director and has received a raise in pay. We cannot wait to look at how we can leverage the extra income to take us even farther than we initially thought we could go.Thank you for following our journey! 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...