Wow! It has been awhile since I have been able to write on here. I am so glad that I have some time to write now. I have missed writing so much. I have been so busy with my job and trying to start out my new side business.
Our Dave Ramsey plan is going so well. We started the beginning of August at $96,529.48 in debt and we ended with $83,574.49. I know you’re doing the math and that seems unbelievable that we could pay that off in one month. Well, I want to take some time to explain and thank everyone. Due to the generosity of both sets of our parents, as I have probably mentioned, we were given two budgets for our wedding, one from each set of parents. One thing I really envisioned for our wedding was a DIY wedding. If you didn’t know, I absolutely love doing crafts and I love the one of a kind look. So, for our wedding, I wanted to do that exactly. We were able to save a lot of money by having me make a lot of the things for our wedding. Fortunately, that meant we had some money left to put towards our debt. So, I want to thank our parents so much for their help with our wedding, which in turn ended up helping us with our future.
I also want to thank everyone so, so much for their generous wedding gifts to Grant and I. We seriously cannot thank you enough for that! You all helped us get our future started and we REALLY appreciate it. So, thank you! It truly was a blessing that we were able to get such a great head start. Each gift helped dramatically with our future success. We seriously cannot thank you enough. We love each of you so much.
We did really well with our budget for the month of August too. Our expenses ended up being under budget for the month of August. We told each other that if in August we had extra grocery money, that we would have a date night. Luckily we did really well. We ordered in dinner and rented a movie one night and we still had money left over from our grocery money, so we were able to go to this restaurant I have wanted him to try for lunch the next day. It was so nice to have that. That makes me want to save as much money as possible while grocery shopping, so we can have a dinner at the end of every month. But, of course because we had leftover money, we had to change our budget for September, so our grocery money is less, but I’ll still strive for it!
I have to thank this Dave Ramsey plan because it has opened my eyes tremendously. Honestly, if we had not been in this situation, I would have never been looking for a second job. When I started looking for a second job, I decided I wanted to work on my own schedule and to try and start my own side business doing something I love. I have been so blessed. As you all saw in my last post, I made crafts for weddings. Since I wrote last, my sister-in-law was nice enough to give me an opportunity to help with crafts for my nieces 2nd birthday. I had so much fun doing this for them. I was able to make cupcake wraps, labels and a banner for her. It was so much fun and it helped with my product line. It is so much fun coming home and working every night after my first job. That's how I know this is what I want to do with my time.
As time has gone by, I realized this is exactly what I should be doing and its something I really want! So, thanks to the help of a great girlfriend for showing me how, yesterday, I bought my fictitious name. And my company will be official in the next couple weeks. Until then, I will keep you all on your toes of what my company name is. :) But, I could not be happier with where my life is right now. I will be starting my business Facebook page and blog, so, stay tuned. My biggest focus right now is broadening my product line. So, if you know anyone having a wedding, a party of any kind, any special occasions, looking for holiday décor, household décor, anything really, I would love the opportunity.
On Sunday, we officially started the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University through our church. We both are so excited to be going through this course. We started doing it on our own, but it is so nice to be in a class with others that have the same goal we do.
This whole Dave Ramsey experience has really helped me. I have learned so much about myself and its only been a month and a half. It also is amazing how much this experience has helped us learn new things about each other. It is rough but its is amazing what you find out.
I'll be back sooner than later next time!
Thanks for stopping by!
XOXO, Renee
