I come from a relatively privileged background, buy my parents thought that talking about money was gauche. So I never learned to budget. I was fairly directionless in life and managed to get myself in a lot of credit card debt.
Then I found a job I love and started taking control of my life. In 4 months, I've gone from having $3500 of credit card debt to having less than $2000. I'm actually on track to get free of debt in 8 months time.
In addition to that, I've developed some goals. They're big and it's scary, but I'm looking at saving to get the deposit for a house and also building an emegency fund.
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Date: 2009-12-16 03:44 am (UTC)I come from a relatively privileged background, buy my parents thought that talking about money was gauche. So I never learned to budget. I was fairly directionless in life and managed to get myself in a lot of credit card debt.
Then I found a job I love and started taking control of my life. In 4 months, I've gone from having $3500 of credit card debt to having less than $2000. I'm actually on track to get free of debt in 8 months time.
In addition to that, I've developed some goals. They're big and it's scary, but I'm looking at saving to get the deposit for a house and also building an emegency fund.
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