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Putting Our Dreams On Hold.

September 21, 2022 This week we decided to put our dream on hold. Our goal at the end of Project Money has always been to finally buy a home. Unfortunately, the stars are not aligning for us, and we have decided to suspend our home search for now.We found a few homes in our son’s school district that we really loved, but with the skyrocketing prices of homes and high interest rates, we went into our home search with low expectations so we wouldn’t be disappointed. We toured a home we loved and were very ready to make an offer, but after taking a night to think about it, we decided to walk away from a home we pictured ourselves in. We don’t feel this is the right time to make large financial decisions when we are just getting on the right track with houses.We are so grateful to have an amazing realtor on Team Ricks and she has been so patient and understanding, also one of our biggest cheerleaders!One day we will have our dream home, but not quite yet. We are hoping the aggressive savings plan we have through Project Money, more discipline, and more middle-class family friendly trends in the housing market will help us to get our home sooner rather than later. For now, that dream is on hold, but our plans we have made through this program still stand and we intend to give it 110%.Thank you 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...