It’s pretty awesome to be down to one card even if I don’t feel like I’ve made much progress since. It’s always been quite depressing to think that even when I make it to the last card, I’ll still have $10,000 to go, but now I’m taking it down. It feels pretty awesome actually. I know I always say I don’t feel like I’m making any progress, becuase that is how I feel most of the time, but when I put up these posts and then look back even just to the previous month, I do see that I’m making progress.
This last month has been quite expensive in terms of fun things to spend money on, like a $13 ticket to Eclipse and $180 at VidCon ($80 ticket I purchased in January; $100 spent on food and parking), and now I’m planning a trip home, which will cost me some money in lost wages at my part-time job. But, it’s all worth it. I think I could easily be spending more money on all of these things by slipping into that mode where I think, “well, I’m already spending money here, so why not just buy whatever I want?”
This has been just like every other goal I’ve pursued where I set the standard at perfection and I am disappointed that I can’t achieve it, but just doing pretty well most of the time makes for progress.
If the picture looks a little different to you, it’s because I canceled the Bank of America Visa and removed it from the list.
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I was worried about VidCon because I didn’t want you to 1. spend more than you have to and 2. lose any progress in paying off your debt. Hence, my insistence of buying you drinks; granted I did actually owe you a 2 or 3 anyways. Though, I wish we would have found a way to get your parking validated so the extra cash could have been sent to paying off your debt.
I never fail to be inspired and impressed by all of your hard work and accomplishments in bringing your debt down. You’re almost there!
You go! Awesome, you should be so, so proud of yourself Ashley!
Way to go! Paying off debt is such daunting task, and I can totally relate to the feeling of not making progress because “Gah! Look at how much I still have LEFT!” and all that. But you’re doing great!!
Oh, and btw: your title says 6/15, but you posted this on 7/15. Just the editor in me sneaking out for a sec.
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