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We’ve been doing well lately, plowing money into the bank. We’ve resisted buying anything extraneous, though we both really want to. We’re finally to the point where we’re truly getting ahead. And then my Jeep broke. I was on my way to the airport to fly out of town and it suddenly wouldn’t shift right. I had to call my wife to pick me up and get me to the airport on time. Then she had to deal with getting it fixed.

Luckily we could still drive the thing, just kind of slowly. She wound up getting to a transmission shop where for $733 I now have a functioning vehicle once again. This isn’t a large expense and we have plenty of money to handle. Things like this are part of the reason we’ve been building up a cash position anyway. I had just kind of hoped to not use that money. The timing for this couldn’t be much better actually. Our economic stimulus check should arrive any day and I get an extra paycheck in May. This truly isn’t any kind of financial setback at all and that makes me feel good. We’re being smart with our money and it’s in situations like this that it really pays off.

This just gives me drive to continue what we’re doing. We’ll keep hoarding money in the bank. We’ll build up our savings account to payoff the credit cards in January and we’ll build up the emergency fund to provide a couple months worth of living expenses. We’ll keep plugging along and know that the choices we’ve made over the last year are putting us in a position to be in complete financial control. And that’s a very good feeling.