1. Pay Down the Mortgage We were able to make 2 additional payments towards the principal for August. 2. Buy Nothing New for 1 Year.  I didn’t have a burning desire to buy anything this week. Yay! 3. Track Spending and Figure Out New Ways to Cut Spending Even More. So this is odd. The Read More >>

1. Pay Down the Mortgage We were able to make 2 additional payments towards the principal for August. 2. Buy Nothing New for 1 Year.  It’s a sad day when you run out of your favorite face lotion. I’m going to miss my 2 pumps of overpriced goodness each morning. Oh well. There’s always next Read More >>

1. Pay Down the Mortgage We were able to make 2 additional payments towards the principal for August which leaves us with exactly 4 years and 10 months of additional principal payments to make if we are going to hit my original goal of getting our original 30 year mortage down to 20 years by the Read More >>

1. Pay Down the Mortgage We were able to squeeze one extra “principal” payment out of our budget towards paying down our mortgage in July. Had we not had all those bills from the HH’s surgery we would have been able to pay down more. 2. Buy Nothing New for 1 Year.  I need a Read More >>

1. Pay Down the Mortgage We were able to squeeze one extra “principal” payment out of our budget towards paying down our mortgage in July. Had we not had all those bills from the HH’s surgery we would have been able to pay down more. But one is better than none. 2. Buy Nothing New Read More >>