It’s Friday already and time for your 52 Week Money Challenge reminder.  For those of you, like me, who began on January 3, 2014, we are 14 weeks in for this year!  Today, I crossed off $25.00 from the SMC bingo style money sheet , which puts me at a grand total of an extra $344.00 saved thus far.  The closer we get to August 1, 2014, my goal date to have a zero balance on my credit card, the more excited I get.  In some ways, the feeling I get every time I see the balance drop is becoming stronger than the high I get from shopping.  I am planning for big things to happen THIS MONTH by paying my set payment of $300.00 per month + the 52 Week Challenge each Friday + the possibility of a somewhat risky financial move, which I will talk about in Monday’s post.  Stay tuned to see how I plan to slash my credit card balance from $1345.00 (current balance) to less than $500.00 by the end of the month by taking of gamble with my finances.  If you want big rewards, sometimes you have to take big risks!