<prompt> Human: When I made my initial post here, I was just starting my emergency fund, while dealing with life crises which had devastated our family finances.Im pleased to report that in the past four months, Ive developed and kept us on budget for spending, continued paying down our outstanding loans and have even put an extra payment on one of them, and have a 1500 emergency fund working on getting it up to 4000. And for the first time in a LONG time there was extra money left over at the end of the month!Thanks for the help!  <response>: I didnt really help, but Im happy for you as Im starting on my own 1000 emergency fund as well. 