I'm in my early 40s, married with 3 wonderful children. We live in a small southern town in North Carolina, where we moved back to last year to be closer to family. I've been investing for over 10 years now, a bit haphazardly at first but has morphed into a focused strategy of dividend reinvestment. We have been following a budget/plan for about that long as well. Trying to live the frugal life while not being miserly with our money, because what's the point of saving if all you do is nothing!
We have quite a few competing money priorities that we are working through. Our house is almost paid off - we have probably a little over a year to go. However, my wife's car is going to have to be replaced in the next couple of years. It's 17 years old with over 200,000 miles on it and starting to have a few repairs in the last year. We have some savings set aside should the need to replace it sooner happen, but we'd really like to have the house paid off before. That's the plan, but have kept some option available.
March on!
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