A year ago this week, we closed on our new home. It was an absolute whirlwind. We lived in our first home about 15 months, and although we knew it wouldn't be our forever home...we were anticipating spending a good 3 years there.
And then we stumbled across our new home on Zillow...and I loved it. We visited and loved it even more...and thankfully still love it today.
We joke that even though we soon will have been living in our new home longer than our first one...it doesn't feel that way. We went from a project house, to a house that needed absolutely nothing. I chose to paint the bathroom (from a off white to a gray) in the basement, but it certainly didn't need to be done. Other than that, we've had zero projects.
Why do we love this house? We learned sooo much about our loves/hates at our last house that when we saw this we knew it was what we wanted. Location, layout, looks...we just felt like it was "our" house. Living here has been a breeze so far.
But what have we accomplished?
-We've talked about our long term goals on updates for the kitchen/living room...planning for about 4-5 years from now.
-We've learned about gardening, lawn care, sprinkler winterizing and attic leaks.
-We've set up the new nursery for the new baby!
-But our biggest accomplishment of all is we have paid off 25% of our mortgage this year! This well exceed our goals and expectations for what we could accomplish for our first year in our house. With 75% of our mortgage to go...we are still aiming for having the house paid off in 4 years.
We've been working crazy hard on finding ways to save money and make money on the side of what we normally do. We follow the same action plan that we did when we first got married and worked to pay off the $100,000 of student loan debt. Here are a few posts where we've talked about some of the things we did to make this happen for us!
10 Month Update
What to do with your tax refunds etc.
Cut 3 Years off Our Mortgage Before Our First Payment
No Spend Month
Tracking milestones like this is a huge part of what keeps us motivated on our journey to once again become debt free.
And then we stumbled across our new home on Zillow...and I loved it. We visited and loved it even more...and thankfully still love it today.
We joke that even though we soon will have been living in our new home longer than our first one...it doesn't feel that way. We went from a project house, to a house that needed absolutely nothing. I chose to paint the bathroom (from a off white to a gray) in the basement, but it certainly didn't need to be done. Other than that, we've had zero projects.
Why do we love this house? We learned sooo much about our loves/hates at our last house that when we saw this we knew it was what we wanted. Location, layout, looks...we just felt like it was "our" house. Living here has been a breeze so far.
But what have we accomplished?
-We've talked about our long term goals on updates for the kitchen/living room...planning for about 4-5 years from now.
-We've learned about gardening, lawn care, sprinkler winterizing and attic leaks.
-We've set up the new nursery for the new baby!
-But our biggest accomplishment of all is we have paid off 25% of our mortgage this year! This well exceed our goals and expectations for what we could accomplish for our first year in our house. With 75% of our mortgage to go...we are still aiming for having the house paid off in 4 years.
We've been working crazy hard on finding ways to save money and make money on the side of what we normally do. We follow the same action plan that we did when we first got married and worked to pay off the $100,000 of student loan debt. Here are a few posts where we've talked about some of the things we did to make this happen for us!
10 Month Update
What to do with your tax refunds etc.
Cut 3 Years off Our Mortgage Before Our First Payment
No Spend Month
Tracking milestones like this is a huge part of what keeps us motivated on our journey to once again become debt free.
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