I simply printed a submit about my 2025 Monetary Targets. It’s nearing the top of the yr, so it looks like a superb time to replicate again on my 2024 Monetary Targets and see how issues have gone.
Quick-Time period Financial savings
I proceed to make use of CapitalOne360 as a manner to save cash in short-term financial savings with numerous completely different accounts for various issues (e.g., Emergency Fund, Automobile restore fund, Semi-annual charges, and so forth.). My essential objective right here was simply to remain in step with financial savings and I’ve achieved that.
Along with Capital One, at the start of the yr I opened up a brokerage account. I’ve been depositing a bit of bit of cash here-and-there all year long (averaging about $50-$100/month). I wrote not too long ago about how I plan to extend this for 2025 to nearer to $200/month. All year long, I’ve additionally began dabbling with some CDs to earn a bit larger yield on a few of my financial savings. I nonetheless have a lot of the financial savings completely liquid. However I’ve established 4 completely different CDs, one maturing every quarter, so I’ve a rotating pot of liquid money accessible.
I’d say I MET my 2024 short-term financial savings objective.
Investments
I elevated my investments from $10,650 in 2023 as much as $15,490 for 2024. And I’ve projected to extend my investments much more in 2025, as much as slightly below $20,000 for the yr. Notice, this isn’t together with my obligatory retirement account the place I make investments 7% of my wage that’s matched dollar-for-dollar by my employer (for a complete of 14% invested off the highest of my wage).
Once more – I’m going to offer myself a verify mark for investments. 2024 funding objective met (and it continues!)
Debt
I didn’t have an enormous, big debt objective for 2024. My solely debt proper now except for our mortgage is my pupil loans. I proceed to make a month-to-month cost on these loans. Annually I submit paperwork to confirm my employment for my eligibility with Public Service Mortgage Forgiveness. Proper now, I’ve 24 remaining funds earlier than I’m eligible for PSLF. The mortgage forgiveness program requires 10 years of funds whereas working within the public service area.
Why is my eligibility date November 2026 as an alternative of August 2025 (which truly marks 10 years at my present job)??? I don’t know. Navigating the coed mortgage business has been some of the difficult and unnecessarily complicated issues I’ve ever achieved. I swear the paperwork for purchasing a home is less complicated and simpler to grasp! So I’ve resigned myself to the truth that my debt might be forgiven a couple of yr after my preliminary predictions. I’ve nonetheless bought two years to go. Within the meantime, I’ll proceed making my month-to-month funds. My objective (persevering with establishment) is met.
Journey
One among my targets for 2024 was to journey! I went to Peru in February for work (however tacked on a weekend at Machu Picchu for enjoyable). Hubs and I went to Italy in April/Could. And we’ve had a number of brief little weekend journeys of all sorts – the entire household, me alone, me with hubs, me with my mother, and so forth. I actually made essentially the most of my sabbatical this fall. One other merchandise from the 2024 Monetary Targets listing checked off!
Abstract
Woohoo! It appears like I met all of my 2024 Monetary Targets after which some! I elevated my financial savings and investing even larger than I’d initially anticipated and I plan to make additional will increase for subsequent yr. I’m up for a promotion for subsequent yr and, if that goes by as anticipated, I’ll be eligible for a increase at first of the educational yr subsequent August. That can assist me to additional enhance my financial savings and investing and possibly by that time I’ll have employed a wealth supervisor or monetary advisor to assist us with a few of our investing methods.
What are your 2025 monetary targets? How did you do in your 2024 monetary targets?
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