Happy New Year!!
Welcome to 2009! I hope you had as much fun as we did celebrating the end of 2008 (we received Rockband 2 for our PS3 as a crazy generous gift from my brother for Christmas, and we spent the end of 2008 rocking out 
) and look forward to a prosperous and fiscally sound 2009.
Actually I am told that my spouse spent a good portion of the beginning of 2009 continuing to rock out. I am a wimp and went to bed at 12:15 am.
I am a regular contributor to Frugal Hacks, and I have a post there today about my three actionable goals for 2009. In short – pay off debt, make car situation good, build emergency fund.
I am still on an emotional seesaw of “I do NOT want any new debt” and “I do NOT want to put any further money into the Saturn”. Time will tell in 2009 which wins out, and I am sure I will be musing on this for a while to come. But I do remind myself that the Saturn’s continued demise is trying to create new debt all on its own, without even involving another car. And that’s not a good thing either.
For now I wish my spouse and his parents an uneventful time getting the car back from NY to here.
Have a wonderful New Year!
January 1st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I hope the spouse
has a safe trip getting the car. Happy New Year.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Your goals sound great to me. Have a very happy New Year!
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Good luck getting that beast of a car home
A safe trip for all!