meeting goals

I am bent on getting to my $15,000 My Own Home Fund goal by the end of the month. That means that between yesterday’s paycheck and next week’s paycheck, I’ve got to get it together. It’s taking longer to get this money together than I thought it would, because of IRA contributions I’ve been making and because of stuff I don’t usually have to pay for each month, like car maintenance, car registration, annual parking permit fee… This car keeps coming up. I could count up the full tally, inclu