7 Things

So I’m not certain if the “7 Things” posts started with Wemay be poor, but we are happy or Making Senseof Cents. What I do know is that I stole it via TheHappy Homeowner.
Since in my last post I decided that I needed to come upwith some new goals, I thought this would be a good way to do it, along withreminding myself of the things we have already accomplished.
7 Things We Have Done
1. Had work done on the basement to prevent future flooding,rewired the basement
2. Paid cash out of pocket for the hubby to return to school
3. Paid $0 in credit card interest this year
4. Set my 403(b) contributions to auto increase the samemonth I get my annual raise
5. Prepared for and managed the adjustment to being a trulyone income household
6. Got rid of cable
7. Got my undergraduate student loan paid down to the pointwhere I finally owe less than I borrowed (11.5 years after graduating).
7 Things We Still Have to Do (in 2011)
1. Get through MIL’s total knee replacement surgery & rehabilitation
2. Have a cash only Christmas (and have shopping/shippingdone before Christmas Eve)
3. Clean out the garage so that the diesel vehicle can fitin before the cold weather / Organize the basement so that it’s usable again
4. Sell/Donate/Dump extra “stuff” from the garage andbasement
5. Prepare one unused room for having a roommate move in inNovember
6. Create next year’s budget
7. Create my own domain to host all my writing projects
7 Things We Hope to Do in 2012
1. Pay off basement work
2. Reach 50% paid off on the debt “race” we started Jan 2010
3. Hubby graduates with his BA
4. Take a major trip (paid for in cash) to celebrate(current plan is Ireland,but friends are planning a group Mediterranean cruise, so we might opt forthat)
5. Major kitchen renovation
6. Get MIL full set of dentures
7. Take on NO new debt