Something to celebrate?

[sistawendy]

As of this week, I have only one year left of alimony payments. I've been paying $4K per month for a little over five years now.

I have two gigantic expenses coming up, and for those the end of alimony can't come soon enough:

1. Buying my mother's house back from the reverse mortgage holders. Mind you, they haven't agreed to any deal yet, but for Mom's potential long term care expenses this is looking like our only option. Good Sister says that trying to get satisfaction from long term care insurance is about to drive her to a therapist for anger management.
2. Buying a place to live instead of pouring money down the rat hole that is rent. Good Sister the CPA is quietly adamant that I need to do this, but she didn't need to tell me.

Yes, I've shopped too much during the pandemic. But either of the above dwarfs the total of what I've spent by at least an order of magnitude.