I thought it would help me with accountability if I posted weekly Fire activities. Here’s the details for last week! It will be a short post, but I’m going to try to do SOMETHING every week, so this is a great way to motivate myself (even something small that I do Sunday night at 11pm because I know I need to blog about it!)
Over the past week, I did the following activities to move me closer to FIRE:
- Posted my “DEBT FREE” printable on the fridge to motivate me and Hubs
- Put an extra debt payment of $400 on my loan, which involved actually calling the bank and talking to a human. Surprisingly difficult.
- Checked my credit report as part of the “One Tweak a Week” challenge
- Sold something on Facebook for $15
- Became a Bluehost.com affiliate, and added links to my blog for those of you who want to try Bluehost as your blog site provider
- Put $135 into the emergency fund
- Made cheapo apple cinnamon oats in my instant pot, which were so delicious. They reheated well with a bit of milk or water added. I posted the recipe with review here!
I think that’s it for last week. Keep making small steps in the right direction, we can do this!
For further motivation, here are this week’s goals:
- Sell 1 more thing
- Call bank again to talk to human. Permanently increase automated payment by $400 per month
- Spend NO MORE MONEY on groceries. Even though we’ve spent $777 on groceries in January, it’s the best month we’ve had since we started tracking our spending in YNAB. Hurray! (We used to spend over $1000 per month)
Please leave a comment to let me know what you did to get to better your financial situation over the past week, or what you are planning for this week. Have a great FIRE-Y week, everyone!
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This sounds like a great way to keep yourself on track and with your goals in mind. Great post. And your savings on groceries is substantial!
Thank you! People are doing amazing things to cut their grocery budget. I do find things to be more expensive in our area, however there is still plenty of room for improvement.