Six Figures Under

Publishing our family’s budget update for September is kind of a milestone for me. The very first time I shared our real numbers budget here was September 2013. That makes EIGHT years our making our family’s personal finances public. For most people that’s a crazy idea. And it was for us at first too.  When […]

“Better late than never” is pretty much my motto over here lately. We went thought August’s budget and set September’s budget right at the end of August as usual. It just took a little while for me to make time to sit down and type up the post about it! This homeschooling four kids while […]

It’s time for our monthly budget update. I typed this up at the beginning of the month, but I was waiting to post it until we filmed the accompanying video where Mike and I walk you through our actual budget in YNAB. But a lot has happened this month and that video pretty was low […]

It’s monthly budget update time!  As usual, we’re sharing what we did with our money last month.  If you’re new here, let me make a quick introduction. We are a family of 8 in Northern California.  Mike is an attorney for the State of California and I stay home (and now homeschool) our six kiddos.  […]

It’s time for another budget update!  I was a little late in getting April’s budget update put together, so if you missed it, you can find it here. The most exciting part of May’s budget was putting a big chunk of money toward our mortgage.  For several months we’ve been contemplating putting in solar, which […]

Phew! We are essentially done with our first year of homeschooling. I don’t know how those one room schoolhouse teachers handled things, because four kids in four grades with two littles, was no small feat!  It was great for lots of reasons and we don’t regret it at all, but the blog has definitely been […]

Regular life has been so full lately that I’m a little late reporting our budget update for March. Between working on our garden and orchard, homeschooling the four older kids while taking care of the two littles, and helping the kids with a major entrepreneurial endeavor, I haven’t spent much time around the blog. But […]

It’s time to share our February budget update. We hit a milestone this month with our mortgage payoff goal. We have now paid off over $100,000 of our mortgage since we set the goal 28 months ago.  We are not on track to get it paid off in the five years that we had originally […]