Goodbye Puny Savings (For Now)

Last night, I went to take my dog out and discovered that one of the two trees we have in the back yard was split right down the middle! Half of it is in the neighbor's yard, and it is just a mess. I am not sure what happened. The guy we are going to have remove it said that it looked like lightening had gotten it. Blah. This is the same tree we were going to have pruned last fall, but didn't, thankfully. I would be so mad if we have paid $300 to have it pruned, only to have to pay to have it cut down and removed six months later.
Removal is going to cost $500, and that includes the cleanup as well. The guy can thankfully start on it tomorrow. I am pulling $250 from savings and taking $250 from my paycheck tomorrow to pay for it. I am thankful we can pay for it without having to use the cards. Unfortunately, we won't be making as much progress in the next few weeks, but at least it won't be going up either. I am just going to focus on getting things done for our cruise (I can't believe we fly down in 8 days. 8 days!) and resume debt smashing mode when we get back on May 16th.
Here is my final April update

		Start	28-Apr
Sallie Mae		12762	12197
Wells Fargo		11700	10898
Campus Loan		8250	7655
Chase 2		2300	1450
Credit Union Card		700	725
BOA		9300	8834
BOA 2		1833	2195
Car Loan		7875	5567
Chase 3		1710	0
Chase		2353	0
Car Loan 2		2090	0
Target		149	0
DH School		376	0
Capital One		376	0
		61774	49521

Not a whole lot of change from last time. We are now at $12,253 paid off.