All posts tagged: finances

Moving Right Along on the Path to Freedom from Debt: Four-Month Check-In

January 14, 2015
by birch & raven
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Financial Fixin's

I last checked in on my debt reduction process at the beginning of November, when after only two months, I’d paid off $5,000. Well, things just keep going well. By the beginning of January, four months into my focused pay-down, I was just shy of having paid off $10,000, meaning that I am THISCLOSE to getting my debt under six figures! Yes, that’s still a terrifyingly high number, but focusing on how far I have […]

Money Worries

September 7, 2012
by birch & raven
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Spirit Talk / Wrestling with Angels

Well, thanks to the state of NH and their crazy-weird “no one has ever heard of this before” policy regarding inter-state foster transfers and health coverage, my “just going to be ok” new call compensation package is now a “holy shit how am I going to pay bills” mess. The fact that I went ahead and got us a dog without crunching the numbers first just adds to my sense of failure/inadequacy. What happened was […]