Friday Celebration Post -the first!

[jamethiel]

I start early because I am early! It's the end of the week! Let Joy and Celebration be unconfined!

Come and tell me--what progress have you made towards your goals this week? Finances OR frugal living, or even buying something that you've saved up towards!

Comments

[holyschist]

Haha, I could so be done already if I hadn't been stupid. It's kind of stressing me out. But hopefully by next week.

I love cooking, and I prefer eating at home; I've just had an awful couple years and got out of the habit (and I have frustrations about the partner who is good for prep work but rarely for actually producing the meal, too). But I'm just going to have to get back in the habit.

I'm embarrassed to admit to what my credit card debt is (worse than yours was, better than some), but I'll pay it off eventually; it is nothing next to the student or car loans (both of which will end up higher interest), so I'm not that worried, just looking at loan payments for a long time.

[jamethiel]

Trying to work around other people in the kitchen is hard!

Sympathies on the debt. Keep plugging away at it. If you can pay more than the minimum, you'll get there eventually. For me, the hardest thing to do about it was decide to do something about it and then work out a sustainable plan that was a good compromise between quickest repayment and still having a life. Once I'd done it for a while it was just routine. It took a while until it felt like I saw results though.

[holyschist]

I'd feel much more comfortable if I had a FT job; the payments are fairly manageable when I'm employed, but the temporary stuff I have right now is temporary, and the job search is super-stressful. If I end up unemployed for more than a month (if that), I'm not sure what I'll do, since I'm not even remotely eligible for unemployment.

But I'm trying not to dwell on that.

[bewize]

Call the CC companies. A lot of them will work with you to get more manageable payments. They'd rather do that than end up getting nothing if you declare bankruptcy!

[kyrielle]

Hmm. If your partner is good at prep work - what about dishes? I've had fairly good luck getting my husband to play sous chef and dish washer on some of my cooking runs....

[holyschist]

Yeah, he does the dishes half the time or less.

Part of the issue is that he views chopping stuff as contributing equally to the meal (it isn't) and part of the issue is that he works skewed hours, so unless I want to eat at 9:30pm every night (which we often end up doing, and I hate it), I have to do most or all of the prep and cooking before he gets home. And it makes me grumpy.

I haven't really come up with a solution for this all yet, other than lots of pasta (and that's still eating at 8:30 at best, unless I cook it all before he gets home, and then 8:00).

[kyrielle]

:( Yeah. That makes it hard. I cook and freeze on weekends, reheat weekday evenings, but that doesn't solve the distribution of labor issue, just moves mine. (Of course, in my case it DOES help as then my husband is home to clean up the detritus.)