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ceejay74

I'm the CFO of a three-adult, two-child, two-cat household. There's me (CJ, age 49), my husband (NT, age 50), my wife (AS, age 44), and our kids AA (age 13) and SL (age 11). The cats are named Whiskey and Clue and they're about 12 years old.

Until July 2007 we hadn't been serious about financial stability, but then we started focusing on paying down our massive debt, building an emergency fund and saving for retirement. In October 2010, we finished paying off all of our credit card debt--over $70,000! Adding in student loans and mortgages, we've paid off more than $250,000 of debt so far. In June 2015, we used a windfall to pay off all our remaining non-home-related debt!

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Big picture goals:

Buy a rental property in Minneapolis in 2022

8x income by age 65 OR Coast FIRE by 2031 (tracking retirement in two ways at the moment)

Completely debt-free by age 65 (2039)

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Reached August debt goal!

August 29th, 2012 at 04:14 am

Yay! I got home from trivia (where we won first place and a $30 gift card that paid half our bill) and decided to check NT's student loan account. My little snowflake payment hit, with $18 going to principal. That takes us to $2011 paid for the month!

I'll post next month's goals when I'm a bit more focused.

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6 Responses to “Reached August debt goal!”

NJDebbie Says:
August 29th, 2012 at 12:32 pm 1346243575
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Good job!!!
CB in the City Says:
August 29th, 2012 at 01:56 pm 1346248570
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Woo-hoo! On the win and the goal!
creditcardfree Says:
August 29th, 2012 at 02:01 pm 1346248881
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Congratulations!!
miclason Says:
August 31st, 2012 at 03:57 pm 1346428655
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Not related to your post, but I thought of your family immediately when I read this news on CNN regarding a civil union of three in Brazil>
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/31/world/americas/brazil-polyfaithful-union/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
ceejay74 Says:
September 1st, 2012 at 03:56 am 1346471765
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Thanks miclason! I've been following that story too, and California just changed their family law so that three people can be a child's parents! It's an exciting time for me.

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Ceejay74's Personal Finance Blog

A blog to help me document my journey out of debt.

Reached August debt goal!

6 Responses to “Reached August debt goal!”

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