House and Marriage

So we are actually starting to get pretty close to the end for the debt. The imaginary amount left on the house is now down to 55,824 after yesterday's solitaire and we had the deposit back from the beach house that we rented for our Anniversary, which was a nice surprise in the mail yesterday. I figured it would take them close to 2 months to send it back, and it only took them less than 2 weeks. If any of you want to rent a beach house in the Ft. Morgan / Gulf Shores area, I would highly recommend Reed Realty. They were super nice and answered any questions we had very quickly. To say the least, we had a great time. Hopefully, the next trip will be to Disney, but I'm sure we will have another weekend down at the coast first.

We had planned on going to Disney in April, but with it looking like we can possibly pay off the house in either April or May, I voted to postpone the trip again. I just can't imagine having to save for another trip with us being so close to being done with the house. Not to mention that I really want to be able to enjoy Disney completely debt free. That will be one great day. :-)

The other thing we have started to talk about is what we are going to do with the money after we are done with the house. We are planning to buy another house sometime, maybe in the 150K range so we don't have to write that big of a check. The other thing we are planning on doing is starting to invest. From reading other blogs and a couple of millionare books, it looks like we are going to be doing some mutual funds and maybe look at buying into the different index funds at Vanguard. Susan and I are still in the planning phase for that, but since we normally take a good 6 months to decide on any major purchase anyway, so the time between now and payoff will be used to decide exactly what we want to do with the money.

More to come later....