Good news! We’ve hit another mortgage milestone today on our mortgage amoratisation table.
Our current balance is $105,297. This takes us to the end of Year 19 balance, and we’re almost 5 years into this mortgage.
I’m not sure if we will be able to hit $100,000 before the end of the year as we have the new air/conditioner heating to be paid for and a few other big bills expected, but it feels good to be this close.
We had our 37th wedding anniversary this week – goodness time goes by so fast! So we went our for coffee and cake after work which was lovely. I’m not really one for parties but I do enjoy a coffee date now and again.
I did have a surprise for DH though. I asked him how much he thought we had increased our retirement savings by this year – his guess was $40,000. While he’s aware of what I’m doing with finances, its me who does the day to day money management. I was thrilled to be able to say our retirement saving have increased this year by $100,000! Way over what I had set as a goal for the year – thanks to a good stock market and compound interest started to really build.
So its been a bit of a good news week here financially.
I’m looking forward to having a big clean up around the house and bit more decluttering this weekend.Time to get on top of the housework and get rid of a bit more ‘stuff’.
Wowza! You are rocking it! Congrats!
thanks Lucy 🙂