From the monthly archives:
This post serves no purpose but to share my excitement that it is pay day at Job #2 today. Pay day at my full time job was Monday and with that combination, I can pay rent, buy food for the next few weeks, and most excitingly, I put another $1,000 toward my credit card! April, [...]
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I should say that my financial priorities have shifted a bit since I started this process and it’s changed my plan for getting out of debt and how I think I’ll spend money in the future. The thing is that I have student loan debt. Mountains of it. I actually have a post in my [...]
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Not that this is particularly rare in our present culture, but I am one of those people who thinks a lot about how long I’ve been doing something. I guess because the length of time seems to make it valid somehow. My entire first year of blogging, I was staring at May 29th, because I [...]
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Dream Shopping You should first know that I have the dreams of a crazy person. Lately, they have been extra crazy and I remember so many of them that I wake up feeling like I never got any rest because I was so busy in my dreams. I woke up a couple days ago with [...]
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I think it’s really easy to say that it’s worth the money to be healthy, but as a person working really hard to get out of debt, I’m having a hard time figuring out what that means. I guess it’s that I used to have the mentality that being healthy is worth whatever it costs. [...]
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I’m not one for giving tips, but I have developed a method for getting out of debt, most of it exceedingly obvious and borrowed from other people. Some of it designed to combat the mind tricks I use to sabotage myself. A lot of it unconscious. 1. The Snow Ball Method. This is taken right [...]
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I can’t say how awesome it feels to see the WF Visa (or the WTF! Visa, as Paige put it) in the 3,000 range. Somehow that just seems so much smaller than 4,000. I’m now more than half way done paying it off (the original balance was $7,500). It’s going to be mid-June before I’m [...]
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I spend a lot of time thinking about when I’m finally out of credit card debt. It’s a thrilling idea to me and I just love thinking about what I’ll do and how I’ll feel. I have a clear plan in mind even though I’m at least nine months away from putting it into action. [...]
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I feel like I’ve been waiting for this day forever. When you’re getting out of debt, nothing beats the days you get to put a big lump sum toward your massive credit card balance. It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve last been able to do this, but I guess it’s only [...]
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When I was in college, I was annoyed by anyone who said anything to me like, “get ready for the real world!” When you’re already working hard at a job (or two) and going to school, it’s irritating to have someone imply that you’ve got it easy. I work among students who really do live [...]
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