wow that's fast in three months! Great news to find a new house!
That is a great feeling!
On my debt update for the first month of January, I feel like my progress is stagnant. My main bills that cause stress are the ones that are not part of this household budget, I'm helping my DD out who is a single mother and the father of the baby isn't in the picture, but I've been paying school tuition and all the slack like difference in her rent and her car payment she couldn't cover. But, I've had the discussion over and over that come May I can no longer do it. She will be done with school. Her own dad (my ex) hasn't helped with a dime and won't he's pretty much useless, but I can't keep covering the extra expenses outside our household budget.
It's one reason budgeting doesn't work well for us. I have everything down, have a plan, and then suddenly, she has a car breakdown as her car is an old junker, or this month a rental issue because the lease expired on her current place, and needs to move anyway into a place that is much less rent since the last year rental payments were a struggle. So, now she has a new place she found with $200 a month less in rent, the current place the lease expired, but she doesn't have enough to cover a new downpayment. She's on WIC and is temporarily allowed some rental assistance in her state, but it doesn't cover everything and there are always gaps. She needs to be done with school and start working for one, and that will be in May. I wrestle with this because she's a single mother with no help and lives by herself away from relatives, but at the same time I can't keep up paying for things outside our main household as I still have young kids at home.