Cut Debt to Get On With Life
November 27, 2009 by Janet7 · 4 Comments
Our lives aren’t all fun in the sun, is it? After my wife and I spent a good week away from the real world on vacation, it was time for us to face the music. From high interest on our credit cards and our auto loan to home projects left unfinished, she and I had our work cut out for us. And I’m persistent old dog, so I wasn’t giving up on my GPS project, either.
First we addressed the credit cards. Gratefully, even in this time of tough credit, credit card companies and auto loan bureaus seem eager to please people with good credit. My wife did a great job isolating the best deal on the best zero percent balance transfer credit cards.
I’m grateful someone in the house has some responsible sense of our finances… and it sure as heck is not me. But the lower interest and lower monthly bills ought to really furnish us some breathing room.
Then we had to handle a number of home improvements we had been planning for quite some time. Some may suppose we have no business investing in improvements at this time, but what can I say? We prefer to stubbornly press forward.
My wife has been looking over the different available steam showers and we both agree on the bathroom lights and bathroom sinks we want for our bathroom remodel, but after looking over some discount bedsheets, we’re no longer on the same page for the new bedding.
Thankfully, she’s being either supportive or patient of my trivial gadget fixation. I’m not too bad about it, but I have my weakness. Presently I have narrowed it down to a handheld tv, DVD projector or a Garmin Golflogix GPS. Speaking of GPS, we both agree it is time to invest in a gps receiver with bluetooth.
I believe gps tech has evolved enough and grown inexpensive enough that we need to incorporate it into our life.
I’m only allayed my wife and I are on the same page for a majority of this stuff. Life can be so much more problematic when the individuals around you use our troubles as launching points for their pride instead of opportunities to unify and mature.