The original post said this:
I had a good start on this, but then the family really needed some help and I was relieved to have a fund I could dip into.
The dipping went on for some months and the fund is gone, but I’m going to start it up again. It will take a long time, but I will be sitting in a coffee shop chit chatting with a far off friend someday.
But then I saw the computer I want on sale at a very good price and I just bought it. Instead of saving up for it (which is smarter), I’ll be paying it off.
Of course, there is a lot less choice to that paying off method—I will have to make the payments and not use the money for less important things,
and I did get the computer I want,
and if I pay it off fairly quickly, the costs of buying it on credit will be minimized.
Did I meet the goal? Not entirely.
But come August, I’ll be chit chatting just as I wanted to.
