I transferred $1000 from the EF into checking to get caught up - hopefully the LAST time I will ever need to do this. The end of the year was pretty bad with Christmas shopping and $600 in real estate dues that had to be paid before 12/31. Therefore, the Discover card that I had previously paid off now has a balance of more than $1000. But, I did write out the final check for DH's car, meaning that we will no longer have any car payments. WOOHOOOOOOOOO!
1. Pay off Discover $1100 balance -> made a $300 payment today, the rest will be paid by 2/1 before any interest is charged.
2. Pay off American Express $4897.28, 0% interest -> made a $97 payment
3. Pay off car loan, $696 balance, 3.75% interest -> PAID IN FULL!
4. Pay off my student loans $6044 balance (about 4.6% interest) -> down to $5887
5. Pay off Dh's student loans $15145 balance (in deferment) -> no change
Looks like I can strike #3 from the list...to be followed soon by #1.
And did I forget to mention the best news of the new year? DH is all ready to sub - and has a two week position lined up starting 1/18! A teacher is going out for surgery and he has already been assigned to cover her classroom. Three more schools have board meetings next week (subs have to be approved by the board), so hopefully by this time next week, he'll be getting more calls to sub than he knows what to do with 
Progress - no car payment!
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