money goals this year

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Registered: 06-20-2008
money goals this year
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Mon, 01-05-2009 - 5:13pm

Whats everyones money goals this year?


We are in debt for

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Registered: 07-02-2008
Mon, 01-05-2009 - 5:20pm

1. Learn to live with less


2. Not charge anything on c/c. (we haven't charged anything since July 2008 so this shouldn't be too hard.)


3. Pay for next xmas with cash and our trip in April with cash.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 01-05-2009 - 5:51pm
Our goals are to: (1) reduce our eating out budget to something

All my best,
Danni

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Registered: 09-07-2003
Mon, 01-05-2009 - 9:17pm

Pay off my parents! (Down to less than $7K.

Teresa
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Registered: 12-30-2008
Mon, 01-05-2009 - 9:27pm
I'm just started here this weekend. Right now, not counting my car payment, I have about $7,500 in CC debt. My goal is to pay off and get rid of a few cards and pay the others down and not using them. I also hope to do the fall back to school shopping and Christmas shopping this year with cash. I still have 4 kids at home so that gets real expensive. I need to get my cards paid off because I'll graduate college in another 1 1/2 years then the good old student loan repayments will start. Melissa






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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 01-05-2009 - 9:38pm
1. Catch up the stray past due utilities.
2. Save a $1000 emergency fund.
3. Snowflake at least $6000 this year not counting the EF.
4. Knock debt down to below 75k, which is ambitious enough to keep me on my toes but not so much so that I can't pull it off.

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Goal #1:

Sarah
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Registered: 12-04-2006
Mon, 01-05-2009 - 10:23pm
What a great question.
My goals
1. Keep my budget under control
2. Reduce my debt by what I can - ignoring my student loan since I'm returning to study and know that it will grow anyway.
Lyn

Lyn

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Registered: 04-10-2003
Tue, 01-06-2009 - 6:39am

1) Eliminate all CC debt. On track to do this by August 2009 (assuming I pay off $500 a month and get no windfalls, which I should be getting!)


2) Efund to $1000. Almost halfway there. This one is a dollar at a time so its painless


3) Save for Australia!


Bex -


"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift -thats why its called the present."


Bex -

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Registered: 10-01-2008
Tue, 01-06-2009 - 12:16pm

#1 - Live on the money we make and not rely on credit cards when the paycheck comes up short.


#2 - Try to establish a savings account again.

Norma


"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble"- Plautus