How do you keep focused and motivated for your long term financial goals?

[Liviam]

What I have done is print out a photo of my "dream" house and I have it sitting on the fridge to keep reminding myself of what we are doing this for.

DH & I also talk/plan what we want in our new house and look at real estate to keep us motivated too.

[Liviam]

We have just paid off a credit card & car lona so I printed out the zero balances and stuck it to the fridge so we can see them because it's so nice to look at a zero balances and I can't wait to put the next one up there too

[~Raven~]

It's hard. No doubt about it. Feeding the neighbors dog while they go to Fiji or watching our cruddy old box TV after visiting someone with a 50" plasma really burnt sometimes. And then the neighbor on the other side gets a pool and we're like WTF we can't even afford curtains.

I think we got through it my telling ourselves that we can lash out later. We would have the occasional splurge but the more we got paid down, the less we wanted to lash out IYKWIM. When we finally cleared out personal and CC debt and just had the mortgage it felt brilliant