Until this car loan the only debt I had was our house. But my plan will be to have the car paid off by the end of the year. Use the credit cards because I like the cash back but always pay off the balances every month. I dream of the day I can pay off the house...
I like your attitude--perhaps because it is not very different from my own.
As concerning your desire to pay off your mortgage, I would strongly suggest that you procure an amortization schedule. When we refinanced our condo in the early 1990s, a co-worker of my wife offered us this tip. And it worked. Big time!
At the time of our re-fi, we owed about $40,000. By making an extra principal-only payment each month (NOTE: this is a separate transaction; it must NOT be conflated with the regular monthly payment), we saved over $19,000. Not bad, since that is about half of the beginning balance.
In the beginning, we were able to retire an entire monthly payment for around $5. (No, that is not a joke!) Although the amount of principal rises gradually, it does so at the rate of only about a dollar or two per month--a negligible amount.
I truly hope you will try this (assuming, of course, that the terms of your mortgage do not authorize the lien-holder to penalize you for making pre-payments). It saved us a real bundle of money--as well as retiring our final debt.
(NOTE: Even if you itemize when you do your taxes, and take the home-mortgage deduction, that does not come anywhere close to saving you the kind of money that this will.)