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Almost there! 20 months ago

This year my husband and I found ourselves in over $14,000 in credit card debt! Yeah that’s a lot! And what do we have to show for it? NOTHING! I look around at all the expensive nice things I have and none of them were purchased on credit…so how did we get into this much debt? Because we are lazy and instead of spending cash on things we want, we would just put it on the credit card to worry about it later, and then we still have cash in our pocket. How stupid were we? Well all of this has changed. In January we sat down and figured out how much we are paying towards our debt, and how much we could be paying and we realized that it was time to get it under control. We have good credit so we were able to get a personal loan to consolidate everything into one bill. We took out the loan for 3 years, but so far we have already paid down 1/3 of the loan and we have nocked off a whole year of payments. I am so proud of ourselves already! I decided to put this on my list of goals so that I don’t lose sight of the end result that we hope to achieve which is get out of credit card debt for good!



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dirgon needs to start updating his 43Things entries more often.

Great work.

I probably would not have done the debt consolidation loan, but that is personal opinion. That’s why they call it personal finance.

You do sound like you are on the right track with paying off a third of it already. Well done!

Keep working hard at it and you will have it paid off in no time.

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ASSIST ME IN GIVING HELP TO THE NEEDY.

Permit me to inform you of my desire to introduce to you into this humanitarians work.
I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.Babara walter of Republic of Benin,widow to Late Mr.Harry Walter (formal Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain. I have been recently diagnose of esophageal cancer. I am writing to you now from my sick bed here in the hospital.

There is $18.5M ((Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)) my husband has in an account with the BANK OF AFRICA (BENIN) of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no child,I decide to contact you so that I will pass the right of next of kin to you. I will send to you the documents that covers the fund with BANK OF AFRICA BENIN which You will apply to the bank and request for the transfering of the fund to your own bank account.

This is on the condition that you will take only 25% of the fund for yourself, 5% for any expenses, while you will use the remaining 70% for the less privileges people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my late husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege people, If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information’s so that i will have the trust to pass the right of next of kin to you. So as soon as i receive your full names with your full address i will proceed to send you all the documents covering the fund which you will send to the bank for the release of the fund to you.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above. Please call my doctor at +229 969 533 17 to speak to me.

Please i look forward to your immediate response through my direct email thus:(mrs.babarawalter99@yahoo.co.nz)

Yours Faithfully,
mrs.Babar Walter

May God Bless You Always Mrs. Babar Walter....

Dearest Mrs. Babar Walter,

Having just read one of your entries, my eyes are filled with tears of abundant love. Your loving gift transfered to a couple working to get out of debt was incredibly thoughtful. An earthly angel you truly are.
My husband and I have a special needs child. She is 12 years old, and was flown out flight for life last January, where she was in isolated pedactric ICU for five days in critical condition. By the grace of God her life was spared, and we were able to bring her home. There arent any guarentees that we wont end up there again, praying again that God will grant her more time, but for now we count our blessings big that she is still with us.
As a result of the incident, our health insurance jumped in price from $600 per month to $900 a month. We have had to make a decision wether to keep our home, with $1,000 per month payment(no utilities included), or keep our life insurance. Life insurance of course was top priorty. THe downfall is right now our home isnt yet in the foreclosure process, but it is safe for our daughter to live in without fear of a repeat health backset. Finding a rental home will be a challenge that is safe for her, and that we are terrified about. One day at a time, one prayer at a time, and God shall see us through.
A few months ago I took out a personal consolidation loan for a little over $9,000. It was set up on a 54 or 56 month payment plan. Sweet Lela(my daughter will be close to graduating when it is paid off). Will be a blessing to have it paid off down the road, but a heart tugging thought that our baby girl will be nearing time to leave the nest. If ever you feel the calling to reach out further to adopt another daughter in heart, and a granddaughter as well.....please please please let me know. With tears in my eyes and a lump in my throatI feel shameful even shameful even mentioning that; however it disipates with the thought of my daughter's livelyhood where fear is concerned finding a different home that would hopefully be safe for her. My email address is poemsandkisses@hotmail.com. Should you decide to email me, please put something in the subject line about being Mrs. Babar Walterthe earthly angel, so I wont just delete it, unaware of who you might be.
May God bless you Always and Abundantly at that!!! Happy holidays to you. Heaven knows you are truly deserving of anything and everything especially blessed.

Angel Blessings Always,
Diane(DiamondDove_130)

debt

we owed 25000 about seven years ago and drew up a “consumer proposal” with a reputable firm of accountants. We paid a set ammount every month and many of the firms we owed money to accepted the accountants’ proposal to be paid off without interest payments. We finally paid it all off and have just one credit card now and no store cards. Good luck.

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Good going! Keep it up.

How inspiring that you saw the problem and you went for it—working out a plan to fix it. Our culture makes debt too easy and saving very hard in terms of rewards!

good, good

well, it’s really good – pay debts and never be into it when it’s not really necessary.

Well Done

Well done for managing to get yourselves out of that pickle and still being a couple! Money has driven so many good couples apart but its refreshing to see you guys saw the problem and together decided to sort it out! Great job guys!!!!!

Thanks for the inspiration!!!

I need to do the same thing – great to see someone else accomplishing it! Keep up the good work!

You go girl!

This is a perfect example of what a couple can do when there’re working as one unit. Great job for you and your husband

good !!!

no debts
being rich !!!

BHM is finding a job

no debt no upset

I hate debt,I fear debt.Everytime I pay the card I feel despaired coz that turn out I am a poor guy then.

Cheers your progress and keep going!

You did it!

It sure feels good to get a handle on it, like a big weight lifted off of your daily thoughts…
same thing here with about 25,000 in debt after a divorce and just struggling to keep the house for myself and my kids to stay in….
I finally did a refi and took care of all of it,,, Didn’t get a credit card for about 4 years, now I have one and am just slowly building the credit back up and it feels good…
If I really need to buy a major purchase I save my money and pay cash, I do have a stash of cash in savings for any type of emergency, because with a family you never know what can happen…
It’s amazing how many things you really don’t need to buy,, who cares what others have, it’s really about being happy with yourself and treating others good for who they are.. It all comes back to you…
Good luck….

Good Comment!

Not only is it GREAT to hear you are appropriately taking care of yourself and your kids (CHEERS!), but your comment that “it’s amazing how many things you really don’t need to buy…” is a HUGE thing to realize. Thank you for your comment, and CONGRATS on your accomplishments!

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NMitchell4882 is nervous about her job interview!

Slag?

Munch, what is a slag?

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shiawase58 paying off some bills

Something tells me you don’t want to know

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Carmiiiiiina counting them stars :p

an inspiration.

i just signed up in here like 5mins ago. You were the first entry i read. ah, it must be a sign for me! i better and must do something about my credit cards. thank you.

NMitchell4882 is nervous about her job interview!

Good luck carm!

do good job

I admire your business

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