In response to a few comments…

April 16, 2007 in Savings

My good friend, Fey, posed a few questions and ideas in her comment on my previous post about saving for an emergency fund that I wanted to highlight and talk through a little of my decision-making process on this. I’m happy to have suggestions like this and open this blog up to more back and forth. 
 Its good you [...]

Savings — How many different accounts/divisions do you have?

April 4, 2007 in Savings

WordPress’s widgets are getting the best of me today. I was trying to edit my emergency fund savings total to $68, but it’s not getting saved. Gremlins in the system perhaps, but regardless (note: fixed) — I’m up a tiny bit towards the goal of $1000 for my emergency fund.
I set up a new online, [...]

Emergency Funds: Or What Number for My Savings Goal I Want (Right Now)

March 18, 2007 in Savings

Readers, you can see that I have basically no savings. Anything that disrupts the monthly budget (well in theory if I had one…but I’m working on that) basically got put on credit. Hence the downward spiral.
So before I can even start considering my future of savings towards investing…I need to simply start saving towards an emergency fund [...]

And The Verdict Is…March 2007 Debt and Savings Totals

March 14, 2007 in Credit Cards, Paying Down Debt, Savings

Wow.
Calculations are in.
I’m just going to post the numbers and hit the sack. It is what it is.
Credit card debt: $18,375* (this number is current for March 1, before payments I’m making this month)
Savings: $46 (this number is current as of today)
I’ll post a bit tomorrow about how I got into this much (pretty typical, [...]