On the Road to a Debt Free Education

It is the end of January, can you believe it?!  Time to evaluate our goals and see how we have done this month. 

Daniel and I have made the long term goal of getting through vet school debt free.  The more research we do the more un-reachable this goal seams- but we are going to try our hardest to reach it and hope that we are close.  We made a few goals for 2010 to try and get us closer to our debt free education.  Our main goal for this year is to have enough money saved by August to pay for 1 year of vet school.  Each month we will evaluate our position and see how we are doing and what else we need to do to reach that goal.

We started out the year with 29% saved.  I would love to say that things have gone exactly as planned and we now have nearly 50% saved toward our goal, but when does life go exactly as planned?  Life takes its own course and we learn to run with it!

We began the month hoping that Daniel would be able to find a job within a week or two, but he is still battling the economy trying to find a decent job.  My job provides enough for us to live on, but does not allow us to save as much as we had hoped.  We are happy to say that we have increased our savings this month.  With one month down we have 34% saved toward our goal.

Even though we are not as close as we had hoped, we are still aiming to have 100% saved for our first year of vet school by August.  This next month we will be researching new and different ways to earn a little extra income to help us with this goal- Stay tuned!

There are a few other goals that we have done well on this month.  We have began menu planning & experimenting with freezer cooking.  Read more about my experimenting with freezer rolls and Chicken Noodle Soup.  I am excited to continue experimenting with freezer cooking.  I am sure these time saving tips will come in handy during the busy days in vet school!