Six Figures Under

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 […]

It’s time for another monthly budget update!  Well, maybe past time, but better late than never! It still blows my mind that we’ve been sharing our budget updates here for over seven years.  Our budget has changed a lot from back when we were in six figures of student loan debt. I never expected to […]