So... my present from Tony is to decorate our bedroom (affordably). To kick things off, Tony painted three of the five walls (yes, we have an odd-shaped room) in our bedroom on his day off last Thursday. I had narrowed it down to a bright granny apple green, a dark masculine purple, or a rich deep tiffany blue. Tony was appalled at the thought of purple. And he definitely wasn't thrilled about green. So here is the winner:
As you can see, I also darkened my hair! I had been looking at some old pics of when I didn't mess with my hair color and I decided I really do like my natural coloring. So this is a little bit closer to that (just a shade darker). Maybe this will be the last coloring for awhile... an especially good idea from a budget standpoint.
Speaking of budget, Tony and I just made a big $400 payment towards our debt snowball!!!! Complements of a few shifts at Green Mill over the last two weeks. We rearranged the order of our debt pay down a little bit. The system usually works best by working on the smallest debt at at a time until it's paid off, then you go to the next smallest. We have paid off four accounts so far and we are skipping up a few steps to pay off Tony's car next.
My car has pretty high mileage (192,000+) and we have been dreaming of getting a truck for the last year. Since only one of us has to commute to work (mwah), a truck is not a huge gas guzzler concern to us at this point. Once we pay off Tony's Saturn, we will sell my Neon as a small down payment and buy a used truck that we can take a small loan out for (something we can pay off is six-12 months). I realize that it goes against the Dave plan... but we're not perfect!
P.S. My present to Tony is this fabulous ice house!
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