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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Financial Goals 2016: Saving for babby's first SA account
 
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Loan Dusty Road
Feb 27, 2007
 Late to the game but may as well throw some stuff up here. I'm much better at accomplishing things when I write them down, so...

1. Getting married in October - Spend less than $3,000 on wedding.
2. Spend less than $4,000 on 3 week honeymoon
3. Max out 2015, 2016, and have cash on hand Dec.31 for 2017 Roth IRA (mine and hers). Neither of us have had an IRA before. Maxed my 2015 in February, and hers in March.
4. Build emergency fund up to $10k. ($15k stretch goal)
5. Actually start her business and generate $3,000 in revenue ($10k stretch goal)
6. Get my PMP cert. Need to increase my studying rate.

Loan Dusty Road fucked around with this message at 08:06 on May 5, 2016

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Loan Dusty Road
Feb 27, 2007
 Mid year update.

1. Getting married in October - Spend less than $3,000 on wedding. Pretty sure we are going over this. Hopefully we can keep it under $4k though.
2. Spend less than $4,000 on 3 week honeymoon Still TBD
3. Max out 2015, 2016, and have cash on hand Dec.31 for 2017 Roth IRA (mine and hers). Neither of us have had an IRA before. Maxed my 2015 in February, and hers in March. Won't reach this, but will only be short by a few thousand. Will hopefully get around 90% of the way there.
4. Build emergency fund up to $10k. ($15k stretch goal) Won't reach this assuming I dump most money into Roth IRAs.
5. Actually start her business and generate $3,000 in revenue ($10k stretch goal) Made $1,100 so far!
6. Get my PMP cert. Need to increase my studying rate. Half way there


Not exactly hitting my goals, but they were lofty in the first place. This is the first time we've had a joint budget, and we've had to increase a few categories (groceries, discretionary, date night, household) over the last few months as we got a clearer picture of what we can handle. We are still making great progress and saving more than we ever have.

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Loan Dusty Road
Feb 27, 2007
 Forgot to update this.

Dustoph posted:

1. Getting married in October - Spend less than $3,000 on wedding. Spent under $12,000 on wedding and honeymoon combined. Was gifted more than $12,000 though.
2. Spend less than $4,000 on 3 week honeymoon See #1
3. Max out 2015, 2016, and have cash on hand Dec.31 for 2017 Roth IRA (mine and hers). Neither of us have had an IRA before. Maxed my 2015 in February, and hers in March.Maxed 2015 and 2016. Have $5,500 on hand for 2017 so far
4. Build emergency fund up to $10k. ($15k stretch goal) Currently floats around $15,000
5. Actually start her business and generate $3,000 in revenue ($10k stretch goal) $2,265. Put this on hold as we are looking to move states and start a family. Will look into starting up again after getting settled.
6. Get my PMP cert. Need to increase my studying rate. Made very little progress on this. My work will force my hand this year though.

Pretty happy with how we did overall.

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