Continue to be more responsible financially

The taxes were done and filed!
I paid off a sizeable debt in full and another smaller one.
I sleep better-things are tight of course, but not having as much scary stuff over our heads feels good.

I should add that we decided 5+ years ago to not use any credit cards and indeed do not have any. So, as we erase debt we are not creating anymore.

As it is with most things, it’s a process but one we keep moving in positive directions with. The plan in the next couple of months is to get the taxes done of course and erase one more debt. Sometimes it’s overwhelming when I look at the big picture, but breaking it down into smaller doable steps help.

Things have been going well with this goal. We’ve switched the craft room and office which involved a lot of purging. Today my daughter and I brought 8 boxes of books to be donated.

While there is still work to be done things function so much more smoothly now that the clutter is mostly gone.

Yet another good goal to keep in ‘08. A lot of good strides were made and for the most part we live within our means, but in the upcoming year we want to try and find ways to make things a little less tight.

This will probably always be a goal. We are not extravagant but between raising children, mortgage, health care (huge!) and the incidentals of life we often feel stressed about this. I’m learning to take a deep breath and just accept the realities and plan for as much as we can.