It’s finally summer around here and I’m thrilled. The months of cold blustery weather seemed to go on forever and I can easily recall longing for the days of warmth. While the weather hasn’t exactly been “epic†heat or anything so far (in fact it’s been uncharacteristically cooler in May and June in the Pacific Northwest), the weather is still much better than the typical 35-40 degree rainy weather that we suffer through during the winter.
A few months ago my wife and I talked it over and decided that we’d try to avoid any major expenditures in 2010. For the last couple years we’ve had to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on a new roof, construction at the lake, buying a new car for my wife, and the list goes on and on. The last thing we really need to do is replace the windows in our house. I’ve been contemplating doing that to take advantage of the 30% energy tax credit, but so far I’ve decided to forgo the tax credit and just build our savings account. Had we not spent so much money on our house over the last couple years, I’d be much more inclined to take advantage of it.
So, for the rest of the summer we’ll be spending time at the local amusement/water park that my aunt bought us season tickets to, visiting our lake house that we built a couple years ago and just taking short day trips around the area. Hopefully we’ll be able to enjoy ourselves thoroughly AND see our savings account increase.
Good luck in your attempt, keep us all posted, I am in awe of anyone who makes these kind of announcements on line and then has the guts to put out updates!
Bonne Chance!