Money Update

So I haven't blogged about finances in almost a year because, well, it's been rather depressing. Just to spare you all the terrible details (and myself having to remember and rehash it all), here are the high (low?) points:

• Rick's car was slated for payoff by the end of last school year.
• It didn't happen because of car repairs.
• And then we got bats.
• And then we had to rip out the ceiling to get rid of said bats.
• And then we had to redo the ceiling.
• And then, because of the shoddy job the people before us had done on the room in the first place (think compressed sawdust wood, and no insulation), we ended up redoing the entire room. 
• And then my car needed new tires.
• And then Rick's car needed new breaks and a new flusher or something.

And that, as you might guess, has set us back-tracking, and the whole thing has been a long and very discouraging process.

So why did I decide to blog about finances for the first time in a YEAR? Because there is finally something to celebrate and not just more news to shake my head and feel sad about.
HERE IT IS, PEOPLE:

1. Establish an emergency fund of $1000 CHECK
2. Pay off Loan #1 - car.GOAL: Paid off by September 2013. CHECK
3. Pay off Loan #2 - credit card. GOAL: Paid off by Christmas 2013 CHECK
4. Pay off Loan #3 - other car. GOAL: Paid off by end of school year, 2014 by end of summer, 2014 by February 2015 CHECK!

That's right! The car FINALLY got paid off this weekend! WHOO-HOOO! WE NOW OWN BOTH OUR CARS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2007!

That said, we still have work to do. We have the rest of the reno to fund and we we have Rick's undergrad loan. But now we can start chipping away at those and bring ourselves closer and closer to becoming debt-free!