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2023 Goals

January 5th, 2023 at 07:47 pm

For 2023, I have decided to make only a couple goals. I will flush them out in a little more detail but essentially, they are decrease debt and increase savings.

Our credit card debt is hovering right around $20,000 and it has been difficult to get it below that level… this is the year! My goal is to decrease our debt (by the end of 2023) by $7000.  After interest, I want our debt to be lower than $13,000. Still high, but it would be progress. We will need to send roughly $900 a month to meet that decrease (including interest).  More importantly, we would need to not charge any more on our credit card. (*I guess that is a side goal of mine… to stop using our credit card unless it is absolutely necessary and to make sure we have the cash to pay for any charges we do make.)

My second goal is to increase our savings. We currently have $7500 in our savings account. By the end of the year, I want that to be at least $10,000. $10,000 is 2 months of (absolute) bare bones expenses. That would cover our mortgage, food, gas, utilities, and not much else. Eventually, once our credit card debt is paid off, I would increase our savings even more. Meeting our goal of $10,000 should be doable. Currently we are adding $500 a month to our savings and The Husband will have 2 months during the year that are 3 paycheck months. From each of those, I will add an additional $500. Should everything go according to plan, we should actually be able to reach this goal by the end of April. (That is of course assuming we don’t need to take any money out of our savings and are able to contribute the same amount each week.) But, realistically, I’m giving myself until the end of the year to meet the goal, because no matter the best laid plans… things happen!

Once we reach our savings goal, we will have to rejig our budget. But that’s another conversation for another time.

That's it... 2 main goals: decreasing debt and increasing savings. It sounds so easy on paper, but real life is hard! I know these are the goals everybody has, but I feel like this year I don't have much mental bandwidth to make more, or more specific, goals. 

Wish us luck for our goals this year! I want to experience the kind of freedom that you can only get from being debt free! Hopefully we can be credit card debt free in 2 years! If we make a good dent this year, 2 years is a real possibility! 

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5 Responses to “2023 Goals”

  1. Petunia 100 Says:
    January 5th, 2023 at 10:49 pm 1672958991
    1672958991

    Best of luck to you with your 2023 goals. Smile
    Have you looked into the possibility of a 0% credit card balance transfer, or a personal loan with a lower interest rate? Maybe you have, just thought I would mention it.

  2. rob62521 Says:
    January 7th, 2023 at 12:39 am 1673051981
    1673051981

    Worthy goals. As for the credit cards...perhaps trying to use cash instead of plastic would help. Although more and more places are not accepting cash. Have you figured out if you could cut back on stuff to help reach your goals, or are you depending on saving what you need? It always seemed like the month there would be a third paycheck, something came up. Hope that doesn't happen to you.

  3. mumof2 Says:
    January 7th, 2023 at 01:09 am 1673053761
    1673053761

    good luck with your 2023 goals...could you use a debit card instead of credit card..so you only use what you have allocated to it...is there any other ways you can cut back to pay off the CC sooner??

  4. VS_ozgirl Says:
    January 8th, 2023 at 07:30 am 1673163022
    1673163022

    It sounds like you have the credit card repayments for the year all planned out but to get off the credit card repayment revolving wheel it would be a good idea to also plan out how you are going to pay for any future purchases. For example, I now have no credit cards to my name anymore as I had to close them down to get finance. This made life super hard initially until I started using an old debit card account for small miscellaneous purchases (like fuel if needed or medicine if suddenly required or whatever else). Maybe you could set up a small debit account and use that as a credit card like account. And because you’ve got your back up, you could even leave your credit card locked away in a drawer so it’s hard to use and you only truly use it when absolutely necessary. Good luck!

  5. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
    January 9th, 2023 at 12:02 am 1673222537
    1673222537

    good luck on your goals. They are worthy.

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