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DesireeD

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Goals met this year!
« on: October 12, 2014, 05:42:37 PM »
   I did it! Just started reading MMM this spring, and since then I've bought a bike and started ridding my bike to work. I've maxed my 401k and  roth. I have opened my Vanguard account, and paid off my student loan debt. All that with several $$ emergencies that I could pay in full at the time by just eating out of my pantry a few weeks.
   Before finding this website, I lived paycheck to paycheck, paid my minimum payment on loan and wasn't even aware that there was a max on 401 k. I thought I was frugal.
   Now that my relationship with money has changed, I feel so very happy everyday. I've always been an optimistic person, but now I am aglow in optimism. I am truely a happier person!
   Thank you MMM and thank you forum community!
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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2014, 06:37:32 PM »
That's awesome! Congratulations :) Do you have any next steps planned?
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greenmimama

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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2014, 06:47:28 PM »
Very nice progress!
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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2014, 06:50:50 PM »
Nice work, you badass!
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DesireeD

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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2014, 07:26:41 PM »
   Next year I want to max out my tax advantaged accounts, and then deposit 15,000 in my Vanguard. There are also several hills on my way home from work that I would like to be able to ride up instead of pushing my bike up. I'm not yet in peak physical condition.
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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2014, 06:17:42 AM »
Congrats, that is so awesome!  You've made a HUGE turnaround!  Fantastic!
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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2014, 06:22:36 PM »

Quote from: DesireeD on October 12, 2014, 05:42:37 PM
   I did it! Just started reading MMM this spring, and since then I've bought a bike and started ridding my bike to work. I've maxed my 401k and  roth. I have opened my Vanguard account, and paid off my student loan debt. All that with several $$ emergencies that I could pay in full at the time by just eating out of my pantry a few weeks.
   Before finding this website, I lived paycheck to paycheck, paid my minimum payment on loan and wasn't even aware that there was a max on 401 k. I thought I was frugal.
   Now that my relationship with money has changed, I feel so very happy everyday. I've always been an optimistic person, but now I am aglow in optimism. I am truely a happier person!
   Thank you MMM and thank you forum community!

Congrats! I did most of the same this year also with the help of having read MMM, ERE, jlcollinsnh, Brave New World, and more.

I ride my bike everyday, pack lunch, paid all my debts, and savings rate at 80%. I was a financial trainwreck happening in slow motion for a while but I managed to get myself on track. Feels great to have some direction and a plan.
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Exflyboy

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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2014, 09:39:22 PM »
Absolutely bloody fantastic.. OK you have to imagine me saying that with an English accent for full effect!

Well done..:)

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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2015, 04:22:37 PM »
That's awesome! Congratulations I am sure by next year your going to accomplish so much more then you ever thought.
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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2015, 08:42:57 PM »
How awesome!  Good job
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Re: Goals met this year!
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2015, 03:01:51 AM »
Congrats. I've also noticed a directly proportional relationship between closeness to FI and happiness.
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