While things are on track with our quest to be debt free I sometimes feel like it is all dragging at a snail’s pace.

There are so many things we want to do, things that will ensure our future. And while those plans are all well in good we are also of the mind of wanting to enjoy life and each other’s company before we get too old to do so.

For the last few weeks, my mind keeps playing a song from Jimmy Buffet, “If I Had a Million Dollars”. It keeps popping in at the most random of times and every time it does I think to myself, I’m not greedy, I don’t want to win the lottery, I don’t need countless millions, I enjoy my job and lord knows I’m not looking to be rich so I don’t have to work anymore.

I just want one Million dollars.

It’s enough to accomplish our plans for the future, it would cover the debts we still have to pay off, pay off our current mortgage, and build a modest retirement home in the Blue Ridge mountains. And maybe have just a little to squirrel away for our retirement years.

I know we want to be able to retire at the appropriate age and not find ourselves working well into our dotage. But alas we are nothing more than hard-working middle-class Americans. We are immensely proud of the things we have accomplished in our lives. We count ourselves very lucky and grateful for the things we have.

It all just boils down to this, I can’t make money grow on trees, and I can’t fast-forward time and make these quests completed any sooner. Many of us are on this quest to be debt free, for some it’s impossible, for others it will go slow while a small few may get lucky and hit that jackpot, but in the end, it’s important that we try

I just need to be patient as always, stay the course and all our quests will be achieved.

And of course, if anyone does have a spare 1 mil lying around, I would be more than happy to take it off your hands.