What are you saving for?

[rob62521]

Re: What are you saving for?

I am saving for these things:

1. Retirement
2. Vacation next summer
3. An island for my kitchen. We have new cabinets and a new stove. Now I would like to have a matching island to the cabinets.

[Kirbycruiser]

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I am w/ Broken Arrow on this one. Peace of Mind!

[disneysteve]

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The big three are:

--Retirement
--Replacement cars
--Vacations

Those 3 plus my daughter's Bat Mitzvah celebration in 9/08 and braces.

[Ima saver]

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I am really saving hard to pay off a piece of property that we own. I thought we might build a new house on it, but now we are thinking of moving someplace new and building a brand new house.

[Jewelfine]

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Jewelfine, did you say your house will be paid off next week?? That is great!! You need to have a mortgage burning party. They use to do that back in the "old days" [Automated by GetSmile]

Yep! and we are only in our late 30's - some hard work and a little as an early inheritance! We don't have any cc debt so it makes is sooooo much easier to save! Next we will work at paying off my husbands car (at 4.8% interest)
Financial Freedom here we come!!!!!

[Ima saver]

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That is great!! When I paid off our house, i got my husband a t shirt with a picture of the house on it. It said, "my house and it's paid for" (of course he won't wear it)
I have one car payment and one land payment, then I will be debt free too!

[sakigt]

Re: What are you saving for?

1) Paying off bills
2) Small vacations throughout the year
3) Pharmacy school

Long Term:
1) Retirement

[PauletteGoddard]

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Short term: saving to pay off my vehicle.

Medium term: making energy efficient home improvements
paying off the mortgage

Long term: retirement

[abowers]

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My goals are mostly short term.

I'm not making tons of money as a grad assistant, so I need to make sure I'm saving enough to pay all the bills! My goal is to only have SUBSIDIZED loans for grad school. My classes this fall and next spring will eat up my yearly subsidized stafford loan allowance, but I have a summer class I'll have to take next summer. My goal is to have enough saved up so that I don't have to tap into unsubidized loans to pay for the summer course (at 6.8%).

Any money I make above bills and saving for my Summer '07 course will go toward a vacation fund (i.e. from babysitting and from selling bags).

[PrincessPerky]

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right now it is all going torward a bigger EF, when that is piled up I will move on..

[tgavin71]

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I was saving for a holiday to Western Australia next year. Even the cheapest airfares will cost us $2500 return for the four of us. The problem is that it is to visit my sister who wants us to come over but whenever we are together she takes great delight in putting me and my family down. When I say we are not going to go over for a visit if she is going to act that way she starts to whinge and carry on. So now we are not going and am putting more money aside for our trip to China in 2014. I lvoe my sister its just that I can't stand to be around her.

[LuxLiving]

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1) Retirement - husband in 2011/2012ish?
2) Me - Never have to work again fund - he's considerably older and although he'll soon be able to collect SS - if he were to pass away before I turn 60 then it'd be back to the grindstone for me! MUST SAVE $$'S - Make WISE investment decisions!!!
3) Mortgage payoff - no CC - no car payments. We have money set aside in a CD that will provide us enough to replace the two relatively new 2005/2001 vehichles we have now.

~~LuxLivingFrugalis

[Jewelfine]

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Wow thats great! It seems to be retirement/financial freedom and then schooling for kids and travel.

Anyone saving for something that may be considered to be "unconventional" - no judgement of course!
MElanie

[Ima saver]

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Well, I would like to save and throw a big party!! Would you all come??

[Bookie]

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Careful, I'm close enough to just show up at your shindig.