Elizabeth Brokamp

And then also just for me, I'm a visual person.

So making sure that I have a picture somewhere, whether it's my screensaver or

Having a vision board of something that I'm aiming for is really important for me.

And I agree with you.

Between that B and C, maybe a B minus for myself.

I did the work to set up the Quicken.

I keep up with all our bills, of course, but I really don't do an analysis of what we're spending that often.

And then as we've gotten older and more established, we've gotten more things to track, so it's gotten more complicated.

I recently decided to try and track one big financial area a month and do kind of an audit.

So last month, for example, I did an evaluation of our credit card benefits and I made these little sleeves that we could put our credit cards in that tell things like, you know, which one is going to save you more on groceries or gas, for example.

And then my latest one was tackling new car insurance quotes.

So I think that's the way that I'm going to try to improve my B minus to a higher grade.

I think this one's pretty self-explanatory.

We were really cognizant that a lot of money can go out the door if we're eating out all the time.

I don't even know how to grade myself on this one.

I would give us a better grade if either of us love to cook.

Luckily, we have pretty simple taste beyond delighting in simple things.

We do things like use coupons.

We shop at Aldi with a big shout out to the Aldi I Love Shame community on Facebook, which I love.

And buying in bulk at Costco.