Well, time to update this journal. Yes - I have not updated it in over 10 months. But I really didn't do anything different in the last 10 months compared to last year. In fact I hardly spent anytime on fiscal planning this year. Stuck to the monthly savings as detailed out in my earlier post - thats about it -automatic transfers took care off the rest.
Update on the major events
1. We had got a wonderful gift this April in the form for our baby girl. Enjoying being first time parents (though could do w/o the late nights and diaper changes!!
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2. We have one LAST tuition payment left!!! Woooohooo!! My wife will be finally finishing this semester and that would free up almost $1000 by December!! Feels good to have pulled off the entire thing w/o taking any loans.
3. We will be moving into our own home by the end of this month!!! Fortunately for us, we were able to stick to our saving plan throughout the year and we are putting in 20% down as we hoped for.
Fiscal plan ahead
I have really not thought about it too much - just excited to have accomplished what we set out to do, but will get to it soon. For now, we know the first two targets
1. Paying our downpayment would bring our emergency fund to $7500. So we need to build it back to $15k.
2. Max out the Roth IRA for my wife.
