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Can't catch a break
Jon and I are currently taking the Financial Peace University course by Dave Ramsey. Its several weeks of learning how to get out of debt, how to prepare for your (and your kids) futures and how to spread your wealth wisely. People always say that when you take steps to get yourself out of debt thats when the car breaks down or some other random thing comes up. Well, it happened to us too. After establishing our emergency fund and feeling pretty good about ourselves, we had the trip for two to the ER. Then yesterday I discovered a broken window in the babies room. It looks like Zach (although I don't know for sure) took a toy hammer and decided to check out the window with it. We have a nice little hole in the center and the whole thing is cracked. This is exactly what the emergency fund is for and I'm glad we have some money set aside, but it would have been nice to have it for more than 2 weeks!
2 comments:
that means you're on the right track. live like no one else so you can live like no one else!!!
here, here, aaron! :). don't forget to go back to baby step 1 again before tackling baby step 2. we made the mistake of not rebuilding our emergency fund, but kept making extra payments on our debt...not a good plan. hang in there! you're on the right track!
also, just an FYI, fixing a broken window is actually not that expensive. you know the broken storm window in the dining room that we always had covered up with plastic for the past how many years, because we though it would cost us a bunch of money to fix? well, it only cost us around 25 bucks at lakewood hardware to get it fixed. you can either take the whole window in and they'll take care of it, or you can measure the size of glass you need (you have to remove the window stop and the broken glass first to get an accurate measurement) and put it in yourself.
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