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It's Done

January 10th, 2011 at 10:25 pm

Well, I did it. I went down and paid off the Gold Star loan in full at Bank of America. They were kind of impressed. The teller was like, "Wish I could do that," grumble, grumble, sigh. I messed up my numbers the other day and had to go back and correct them.

$182,783.95 total starting debt (minus car)
- 38,323.87 payoff amount
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$144,460.08 total ending debt (minus car)

Take that Evil Empire of Creditors! It feels marvelous to see such a huge drop like that!
That leaves just $29,133.45 of interest bearing unsecured debt left and I really do think we can pay that off this year if we are careful with the budget. 18 months tops if we leave a little more wiggle room. On Friday I get to pay off Master Card #1 in full. Yay! Then the money that has been going to pay that will go to the next credit card we will pay off.

On my quest to not eat out I had leftover potroast/sweet potato hash in a tortilla and for dinner tonight I am making salmon patties from canned salmon in the pantry (just egg, green onions, garlic, salmon and a bit of salt and pepper). Easy peasy. I'll probably open a can of green beans and a can of corn as well.

I found 2 more pennies in the snow in the parking lot at the physical therapist's office. That makes $5.05 this month.

Wrote a check to the physical therapist for $90 as well. That is the only money I will spend today.

Edited to add: I forgot about the fact that I paid the mortgage today as well, so $375.86 was also spent for that.

Posted in Goals, Cutting Expenses, Spending Journal, , Bringing Down the Evil Empire, Medical Issues and Spending | 10 Comments »

10 Responses to “It's Done”

  1. HouseHopeful Says:
    January 10th, 2011 at 10:41 pm 1294699273
    1294699273

    Congrats on the payoff!

  2. NJDebbie Says:
    January 10th, 2011 at 10:47 pm 1294699673
    1294699673

    Woo Hoo!!!!!

  3. creditcardfree Says:
    January 10th, 2011 at 10:57 pm 1294700250
    1294700250

    Congrats! Can I ask where that large chunck of money came from? I looked back at a couple older posts, but I didn't quite get it.

  4. LuckyRobin Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 12:23 am 1294705392
    1294705392

    Oh, I don't think I mentioned where it came from since that was before I was blogging again. My husband was laid off from his job of fifteen years when his original company didn't get a renewal of their contract with the big company in charge. Since he had several months left in his contract, they still had to pay out the rest of the contract. It was a very good contract for him! Fortunately he got the new job right away with the company that did get the big contract so we barely saw a blip on the radar.

  5. Petunia 100 Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 01:34 am 1294709667
    1294709667

    That's awesome! Congrats! (And can you please tell us more about the roast and sweet potato mash? Sounds yummy!)

  6. LuckyRobin Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 01:45 am 1294710336
    1294710336

    Petunia, I just shredded up the leftover roast beef while it was still warm yesterday, and grated the leftover sweet potatoes on a cheese grater (works best when they are cold) and mixed them together, heated them up and plopped them in a tortilla. This works best with roast that has been made in a crockpot or pressure cooker and is already falling apart tender.

  7. creditcardfree Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 02:14 am 1294712045
    1294712045

    Very nice and a great way to use the money! Thanks for sharing. Smile

  8. Shiela Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 04:40 am 1294720812
    1294720812

    Great job Robin.

  9. Thrifty Ray Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 05:30 am 1294723824
    1294723824

    WOW. Impressive missy! Do you remember your early days here when you were working dilligently on your challenge account??? You've come a looooong way baby!

  10. Ima saver Says:
    January 11th, 2011 at 05:03 pm 1294765426
    1294765426

    Congratulations, great job!

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