A Goal Missed

Sorry for the radio silence the last couple of weeks. We were in Washington D.C. and we didn’t have a lot of spare time. Plus, I became sick as a dog on my second day of vacation and was sick for the remainder of my trip. Most nights, I went to sleep before The Kids and woke up after them, too. Blogging was definitely not my priority.

It was on this trip that I found out I missed my goal of being under $11000 by $794.07. However, that’s not the whole story. I did not factor in the fact that some charges from our D.C. trip would be on this credit card statement. Taking out the D.C. charges of $534.74, I only missed my goal by $259.33, but I still missed it.

I don’t know if that makes sense to anybody but me, but I know what I mean, you know?

I had finance charges of $170. I’m bummed I missed my goal, but I’m not totally surprised. It was a stretch to make that goal in the first place. On the flip side, my overall debt did go down again, so I’m going to try to focus on that. With all the charges for Washington D.C. before we even left: airfare, hotel, attraction tickets, etc, it was going to be difficult to get under $11000 in the first place. Even with all the extra money that I could scrounge up to throw at the credit card, we were unable to make the goal, but at least we tried. I guess it’s better to aim high and miss than have low goals that you are “successful” making every month.

We are going to continue to aim high, but realistic, as we go forward with our debt repayment.

Our D.C. trip was very expensive, but we had a wonderful time!