I made an Excel spreadsheet today, listing out how much money we had in savings on the first of the month from 9/1/02 through 2/1/0. I added a line graph as well. It's interesting to see what the line has done as the months went by. I can see what a hit our finances took as we paid for our dog's three surgeries. I wouldn't change a thing, though, given we had the money and he would give his life for us if he thought we were in danger.
Anyway, my goal is to get that line to creep upwards month by month, year by year, even if it isn't by huge leaps and bounds.
Which reminds me - our credit union has a promotional 10 month (I think) savings ceritficate with a rate of 3.15%. I'm going to give them a call today and move some savings over into one of those. We have a 15-month certificate coming due in June. It will be nice to roll it over to a higher rate as soon as we can.
Savings
February 14th, 2005 at 07:27 pm