2013 Goal Update- Make $13,000

Okay, Last update of the month.  My goal is to make $13,000 this year, plus the $7,000 I want to not spend from the budget, for a total of $20,000 in 2013.  Because all the money goes into the same bank account, it’s sometimes easier to track it against the $20,000 instead of breaking it up into the smaller amounts.

As of tomorrow (wait for some news coming then) I will be at $9,000/$20,000.  Which seems like I have made crazy progress considering only two months out of twelve have gone by, but actually I am just right on track.

For 1/3 of 2013 I will probably not being making any money (and possibly be spending more!), so that is going to slow me down a lot. And since I’m unsure how long I will be working for in the next school year, I need to be making most of this money early in the year.

Now progress will slow.  I have $11,000 left to make, and 10 months left.  I need to get $1,100/month through a combination of money I roll over from my budget and money I make. I believe it’s doable, but a lot depends on what happens over the summer.

I haven’t posted after the last few $1000s that I hit.  Of that $9,000, $6,750 has rolled over to my savings marked for a downpayment.  The rest has been doled out in $250 increments to do what I would like with.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

1. taxes
2. taxes
3. ipod
4. conference
5. travel fund
6. technology fund (to eventually replace my faithful laptop and maybe one day get a smartphone)
7. stuff from the city I’m living in (magnets, photographs, shirts, a school sweater, etc.)
8. travel fund
9. decorate apartment (haven’t spent this money yet, but if you remember in December I said I would do this and then never did)