Tax Time!

I love tax time. I've just gone through and triple checked and then submitted our tax returns.  We use TurboTax - for under $30 at Costco, it makes filing sooo easy. I used to do our taxes by hand first, and then use TurboTax - just in case there were discrepancies...and there never has been....

Salary Review

Well, it's that time of the year again...salary review time. Most of you know that my career in in Human Resources. Specifically right now, I work in the Learning & Development department of my organization. I've been with my organization now for about 7 years, and have about 8-9 years combined experience. Given the state of the economy right now for my industry, there's not a lot of butter...

2015 Budget

Last week I showed you our goals and progress for savings/debt repayment - now I'd like to show you how we're getting there with our 2015 budget. We won't hit each of our goals 100%, but we're going to move the needle significantly on all of them. Jordan has settled in to his new job, and it is...

Savings/Debt Goals

Moving forward on the update train is where we are at with our saving/planned spending goals and our debt-pay off. The goals for the first three planned spending categories come  from our average spending over the last few years in each.  It's how we set up our monthly savings rate as well....

Networth Update

It's mid-March, but just to catch up here's where we are at in terms of Networth. The big dip from January to February was a change in value in my employee-owned shares at work. Since the dip, my Tangerine funds have done better then expected, we've re-started several automatic-savings plans, I...

January/February Spend Report

Catching up from the first few months of the year, here is our January/February spend reports. January was big on groceries because we were stocking up both my and my mom's pantry's, and gas spiked in February because we'll be driving a lot more to visit each other on weekends. We had a big expense...

It's March?

When did that happen? It's been a crazy couple of months.  A lot is on the horizon for Jordan and I, and I'm so excited to share it with you. I have, for...well, for forever, have wanted to move back home.  At the same time, I also thought that it would be impossible, that there is no work for me there, and so it was sort of wishful thinking.  I certainly didn't think that Jordan...