Is now down below $1,000 for the first time in many years. If it’s not gone by next paycheck (two weeks) that’ll be because I prepurchased flights for all summer to lock in low prices and it’ll be gone by the payday after.
w00t, I say, w00t.
Getting a word in edgewise
Is now down below $1,000 for the first time in many years. If it’s not gone by next paycheck (two weeks) that’ll be because I prepurchased flights for all summer to lock in low prices and it’ll be gone by the payday after.
w00t, I say, w00t.
w00t
That’s great news. It’s a good feeling.
Congrats!
congrats!
when I got laid off, I was really glad we’d gotten rid of our credit card debt the year before. It made things a lot less stressful.
Hearty congrats. 🙂
yay. Not paying interest is good 🙂
congrats!
Any idea how common it is to carry a balance? I’m really at a loss, because it’s not exactly a topic for discussion.
“About 60% of active credit card accounts are not paid off monthly.”
From http://www.spendonlife.com/content/CreditCardDebtEliminationAndFactsAboutDebtInAmerica-1-223-3.ashx, no idea how reliable it is.
wow, if I were to trust the article, that’s insane.
“A typical American family today pays about $1,200 annually in credit card interest.”
In general I assume that everyone I encounter has credit card debt, unless I know otherwise. It’s a pretty safe assumption, sadly.
Good for you! It’s a big load off your mind, isn’t it?
I still have debt, but it’s the payoff of the 2nd mortgage and as it’s at 3% interest I’m happy to carry it and pay other things off first. 🙂
And in the spirit of w00t (wonderful loot), this means you can go on a shopping spree! Woo, use that credit! Stimulate the economy with debt! It’s your duty as a patriotic American!
Buy Chinese goods so that China can buy Treasuries so that we can issue debt so that we can reduce taxes so that you can buy more Chinese goods!
Getting out of credit card debt is so unamerican.
Congrats! As someone who carried credit card debt for years, I know how good it feels to finally get that monkey off your back!