i can taste it
Last night I put a little chunk of money on my old credit card debt.
I broke a thousand!!!
I now owe a little over $900 on the consolidation loan that I used to wipe my credit cards clean in the fall of 2006. Finally - a three digit balance! Psychologically, this is a milestone.
Do you know how eager I was to break a thousand about two months ago? I was so close, I could taste it. I was within reach of paying off the entire balance before the end of December. I had my facts and figures all ready to go. All I was waiting for was a couple more paychecks to make that final payment, and then… my employer’s parent company eliminated some positions, and one of them just happened to be mine. Suddenly my perspective changed. Suddenly the money I was going to use to pay off debt from my past became more precious to my immediate present and future - and I couldn’t part with it as I had planned. I even received a severance package that could have paid my remaining loan balance with surplus to spare - but again, I needed that money in my pocket, not my creditor’s.
But now that I’ve got an income again, I’m back on my mission. My old credit card debt has been dogging my mind and my cash flow for years. Those credit cards were off limits to me for years because I couldn’t afford to get into any more debt, and I couldn’t afford to pay off the debt I had. Now, I am so happy and so excited! Words can’t describe what a relief is coming right around the corner for me. I get paid weekly. This old debt is on its very last leg.
I’m so close, I can taste it!
