by Hope
Woot, woot! Our 6 month automobile insurance coverage premium drops proper at $1,500 subsequent month! I attribute this to:
- Improved credit score scores for all of us however particularly me since I’ve been paying off and shutting credit score accounts.
- The first of Gymnast’s three wrecks will drop off on the finish of this yr. When he was looking for his personal insurance coverage, they instructed him that this was an enormous consider his premium.
- Magnificence coming off the household plan this previous month when she received her personal automobile.
Starting in October, our month-to-month premium will go from $1,200-1,300 per thirty days to $930 per thirty days.
We’re undoubtedly getting in the proper course!
Sidenote: Gymnast Automobile
Gymnast took over paying for his automobile on the finish of 2023. And has achieved a tremendous job. We have been in a position to refinance the mortgage this previous week to get his identify on the title and mortgage so he now will get credit score for his funds. And most significantly, we have been in a position to get a a lot decrease rate of interest for him. Rating!
Making Strikes and Making Selections
Issues are going so, so effectively proper now. I’m steam rolling by debt payoff. 100% targeted. And it feels so good.
I’ve begun making different selections as effectively. Future plans. And making these isn’t solely serving to to maintain me motivated, but in addition giving me a cause to maintain targeted on NOT spending. I spent an evening with Princess this previous week. (Extra on the why for that later.) She and I spoke rather a lot about my selections, the supposed and unintended penalties of these selections, and classes that I want I had discovered at her in the past.
I’ll say, that if my unhealthy selections find yourself with my youngsters being a lot extra smart than me with cash. So value it! I’m so amazed at their brains, and focus, and simply all of it. And I really like that we discuss all of it. And so they hear, and I hear.

Hope is a inventive, solutions-focused enterprise supervisor serving to purchasers develop their enterprise and work extra effectively by leveraging experience in undertaking administration, digital advertising, & tech options. She’s lately grow to be an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive youngsters have unfold their wings. She lives together with her 3 canine in a small city in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the seashores any day. She struggles with the journey bug and is doing her greatest to assist every of her youngsters as their end education and grow to be impartial (but it surely’s laborious!) She has run her personal consulting firm for nearly twenty years! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD neighborhood within the Spring of 2015 and looks like she has lastly in a spot to essentially give attention to making smart monetary selections.