Today's celebration for me is more an accumulation of little willpower victories than any milestones achieved. But I had a kick-ass Mustachian day today!
1. I biked to work (as I do twice a week) and home again. I packed a lunch and cleaned out a bunch of the little bits and bobs left in the fridge. Refrigerator Velcro Salad to the rescue again! (It was delicious).
2. While getting ready to take a munchkin to soccer practice, I realized we were almost out of bread. This makes making lunches at our house difficult. So... I pulled out the food processor and in less than 10 minutes had two batches of bread dough mixed, kneaded and rising. I baked them tonight after dinner (dinner was a baked meal, so the oven only got heated up once) and avoided a trip to the grocery store, which I guarantee would have had me buying more than just a loaf of bread! Plus, this bread is waaay yummier.
3. Today was payday and one of us got a bonus (hint: it's not the one that works in the public sector) ;), plus I got a reimbursement check for some travel expenses, so we got to stick a solid chunk in our taxable Vanguard account as well as one of our 529 accounts. Whoo-hoo!
4. While on my Vanguard account summary page, checked one of my deferred comp accounts and realized that my dividends for that account have doubled as I plow more money in. That's awesome! I don't expect this to continue (I'm pretty sure exponential dividend growth is only something you see when you are investing at the low end of the curve, and I just opened this particular account six months ago), but it's motivating for now!
5. I also signed up for the Vanguard automatic investing. We'd been putting spare money into the taxable account, but we consistently max out our deferred comp / IRAs, so I decided to start funneling money to the taxable account on a regular basis. We've got low-cost index funds in there, of course (Hello, VTMSX! can't wait to start dating the Admiral version of you soon!)
6. I redid my SRA for the 403b, to max it out.
7. Redid my SRA for my other deferred comp plan (a 457) for 2016 and will max that out as well.
8. Set a goal of saving 50% of our take-home pay for the rest of 2015 and for all of 2016. We're at 43% now. I'd like to get us up to 60% within the next five years.
Looking forward to contributing to this page more in the future!