I was leaving a friend's house this evening and failed to notice it was freezing rain. I fell down the steps and hit the back of my head pretty hard. Fortunately my head is very hard and I'm ok. Then being a bit rattled and holding on to my car door not to fall down again I ended up locking myself out of my car while it was running. AAA came to my rescue so no serious harm done.
Man I haven't seen it so icy out in ages.
Maybe the blow to my head knocked some sense in to me. LOL. Not likely.
Anyways I decided to finally post my 2009
goals.
1) Pay myself back (into my checking account) the money I spent on some recent car repairs. The total is $344 but I've already paid myself a little of that back.
2) Also pay muself back for a car battery I had to buy. (about $70)
3)Add $400 to what I have in my E-Fund. That will put it over 2000 which is simply the best I can do for now. My eventual goal is still 12,000 for the EFund.
4) Hold off on all my smaller "funds" that I'm saving for just temporarily until I get the other more important things taken care of.
5)Continue saving for a total of $4000 to put in 2009 IRA. I'm not sure right now exactly whats in it but probably only half way there right now.
6) Put $4000 into 2009 IRA. Use money from regular savings to make up anu difference from goal number 5.
7) Start saving $3000 towards 2010 IRA.
8)Try to have my first ever yard sale around May.
9) Go camping and canoeing with my nephew and his son at least once. I will go camping in some way or another at least 3 times.
10)Try to take a real vacation this year that I wasn't able to do last year. Possibly Costa Rica around July or August.
11) Pay at least $100 extra on Mortage principal every month. I'm trying to pay off my house within nthe next 3 years.
12) keep using Quicken. I really didn't do as good with this one last year as I had hoped but I did improve on tracking my accounts and will continue to work on it.
Thats all of my goals for now. I plan on adding or tweaking them as I need to.
I feel I did good on my 2008 goals even though they were not as detailed as most of yours. I tried to be a little bit more specific this year.
I wish us all a great 2009.
2009 goals and a few updates.
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I am also going to make it a goal to post on here when I complete a goal. My first 2 goals wont take long to
accomplish at all. Some of the other goals are ongoing ones that may just never totally be completed.
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Great job on the goals, too.
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Wow thats something homebody. I hope you were not injured too severely and got better soon after all that happened?
I was lucky I fell kinda flat and didn't hit the corner of the step or then I could have been really hurt.
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Thats why I'm lowering (at least right now) for 2010 to 3000 cause even 4000 is a bit steep for me.
Yes I did put $4000 in for 2008 too.
homebody - Glad you got better fairly quicky at least. I didn't realize that it gets so icy in Reno either.
Kopper - Thanks too. I'm feeling good. Just a few achy
muscles from falling but not even a bruise.