Some finance and life updates…

I haven’t really update everyone on everything lately, I should probably do this more so that I can keep track of everything (and because I know everyone is SOO interested!). Life is going good. School is making me tired and all of the Fall shows are making me stay up super late. I wish I wasn’t addicted to Sons of Anarchy, Boardwalk Empire, and sadly multiple other MTV reality shows that I would rather not share the names of.

My Goals

1. Paying down my student loan balance – I haven’t been paying a ton to this, only around $200 a month.

2. Paying off my car loan – I’m still paying my normal payment of $400 a month.

3. Having $15,000 in my emergency fund – I have around $6,500 in this. I should be working on this more.

4. Increasing my mortgage payments – Haven’t really done this either.

5. Invest more – I have been doing this, thankfully. I invested around $1,100 more the other day because my work contributes to a SEP retirement plan.

Christmas shopping has been going ok, I still only have those two items bought that I talked about here. I feel that Christmas this year will be relatively cheap compared to other years, THANKFULLY!

Extra Income Swagbucks so far: $45 for Amazon – I’m hoping to have around $80 by Christmas time

Secret Shopping: $327 in checks – Haven’t done this too much lately. But I only started secret shopping in around the end of July, so I think this is great. I wish I had more time though.

Surveys: $47 in checks – I don’t make too much from this, but it’s still easy money!

Mr. Rebates: $27.13 in checks – I haven’t really bought anything online in FOREVER, besides books, so this hasn’t increased at all in awhile.

Yahoo Contributor: $8.85 PayPal – I haven’t written anything too new on this, besides just copying stuff from my blog on there, so this hasn’t increased, but it’s still something!

I made dinner last night too. I made steak teriyaki and it was delicious, but I forgot to take a picture! The BF has been very on board with us eating in everyday, I’m so happy with that! It’s starting to get hard to make a new meal every night though, as I’m trying to mix it up and try something new every night. Tonight I’m going to make burgers with pasta salad and fries and for desert some kind of apple pie or something.

Any tips to stay motivated? How is everyone else doing?

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