{"id":1968,"date":"2014-03-31T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2014-03-31T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:25:04","slug":"march-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"March Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Financial Goals<\/strong>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 Pay off credit card debit by June.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Continue to make steady progress in this area. Goal MET!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Emergency Fund to $2000.\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>I was able to not only make the goal for $100 for March but I caught up $100 for February!\u00a0 GOAL Met!<\/p>\n<p><em>. <\/em> <strong>3.<\/strong><strong> <strong>Groceries: Spend $600 <\/strong>a month-\u00a0<\/strong> The goal for March will be $400 or less. I actually spent $403.\u00a0 I am very happy that I have been able to keep the budget low! I am positive that our spending in April will be close to the $600 mark as we will need to purchase meat in addition to a large Costco trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong> 4. Gas: Spend $400 a month with any remaining to be move to Auto fund for repairs. <\/strong>I have spent $348.00! Goal met! This did not include the $120 we spent on travel for the beach.<\/p>\n<p>I will be adding a goal for the month of April. I need to save $400 to pay for the crown on my tooth. Currently I have $150 of that saved so I must save an additional 250 this month to cover the rest of the expense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blogging:\u00a0 <em>Goal: 15 per month<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 This is number 15! Goal met!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Weight: Goal to exercise 3x a week and to be down to 150 by December<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2014.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Total failure for the month, between the awful weather and our beach trip. I did not make any progress this month!<\/p>\n<p>A great month overall but I need to focus more on my weight and exercise in the next month!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Goals&#8211; 1.\u00a0 Pay off credit card debit by June.\u00a0\u00a0Continue to make steady progress in this area. Goal MET! 2. Emergency Fund to $2000.\u00a0\u00a0I was able to not only make the goal for $100 for March but I caught up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=1968\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ySyX-vK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}