All pumped up.

The saga of the Hot Tub continues. We will not be making a princely sum off of it, as we hoped, but we will be making something. The repairman told us the pump is shot, meaning we would have to drop a good 60% of our asking price for the whole set to get it repaired. Meaning, we won't repair it. The only good to come of this is that we have a sympathetic buyer. A relative of this blog's own Budget Naginata wants to not only buy the tub, but buy the broken motor unit. We've left it up to him whether or not he'll repair the unit or get a new one, but we can get maybe 30% of our asking price on the tub from him for just the tub alone, which is money we previously didn't have. So a bit of cash and a big unused eyesore out of our back yard equals happier Budget Clan. Again, I was hoping to get more and do something more along the lines of a treat for us, but I'll take what I can get and look forward to getting some needed home repairs done.

We are reviewing some ideas, some plans to get keep us on track. At this point we have 358 days left and it's already not easy, but talking about it and being vigilant has keep us motivated and strong.

I'm probably going to post some urls that have given me pause to think about better ways to do and try things. I'm hoping that we can beg, borrow and/or modify some of these to our own challenge in a way that proves beneficial to the whole Clan.