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Greetings from a rain soaked Houston, Texas. As most of you may have heard, a hurricane rocked the cities of Rockport, Corpus Christi and Victoria in Texas. While the hurricane barelled down on those cities, the outer bands of the storm have wreaked havoc on the city of Houston and the surrounding areas.
In everything we do with our finances, our goal is always a focus towards financial independence and the freedom that financial independence allows. With that focus, we must make a concerted effort to cut expenses wherever possible.
We are now half way through the year with the arrival of July. This calls for an update on the Summit of Coin family spending. Things for our family have become really interesting and our savings has not been up to our normal Summit of Coin Savings. With the start of our daughter in daycare and other expenses, we did not reach our savings goal over the past three months. Our goal is 35% for the entire year (with an understanding that some months will be better and some will be worse. Let's jump into our April spending report.
It was a Friday, I remember it well. My wife and I were visiting her grandmothers house and it was a pretty relaxing weekend. I got on my phone to check my e-mail and there it was, in my inbox. An e-mail that would end up eventually costing us $300, but possibly saving us at least $599 in the long run.
This past summer, I worked summer school at one of the high schools in my school district. Just like at my school, there was an opportunity to get a free meal from a financial advisor. I normally avoid the teachers lounge on these days, because I like to avoid the awkward conversations. This time, I was interested to hear what they had to say. I took this as an opportunity to listen to the message and report back to my readers. Plus, I was interested to learn more about TRS.
