Where are we now?
At the start of this odyssey we were $17,000 in credit card debt, $50,000 in student loan debt, and $13,000 in an auto loan. From the start of the year we have paid down $12,000 in credit card debt, our balance on the auto loan has been reduced by $1,000 making the [...]
One day down, so many more to go.
My first day back after 10 years of not delivering pizza was interesting. There was nothing new about it, not much has changed aside from a few extra items on the menu. I have to admit there was a certain amount of comfort knowing exactly what needed [...]
My wife and I got to talking last night over dinner about how much better we are doing financially over the past few months than we were before and at the same time doing worse. Life is hard right now. Living within your means when you were accustomed to living well beyond them is difficult. [...]
Yesterday we had dinner with my parents, my dad and step mother. We do not see them much even though they live 15 minutes away, which is completely odd since we see them as much as we did when we lived 1,100 miles away. How does this happen? Time seems to be a rare commodity [...]
Money is tight this week and even though February is a short month it is still just as long as all the others. I was paid last Friday and traditionally I am paid twice a month, the first and the fifteenth. Given that this past Monday, February 16th was a holiday we received our paychecks [...]
