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Numbers and a warm fuzzy

We make the progress. Slowly.

CreditorInterest RateOwed
Amazon Store26.49%-556.24
Chase Visa26.49%0.00
JetBlue22.24%-95.92
Chase Amazon Prime18.99%0.00
Barnes and Noble16.24%0.86
Chase Slate13.74%-75.00
Chase Freedom18.99%0.00
CU Signature Visa 211.24%-429.15
Bank A Signature Visa11.15%0.00
HELOC8.50%-86,631.68
CU Signature Visa 18.40%-827.49
Car loan2.90%-42,720.98
Bank A Balance Transfer0.00%-3,746.58
BankAmericard Platinum0.00%0.00
BestBuy0.00%0.00
Citi Diamond Preferred0.00%0.00
CreditFirst (Firestone)0.00%0.00
Lowe's0.00%-526.05
Total CC Debt-6,255.17
All Debt-135,738.20


The Great Job Search is off to an unsteady start... still, it's a start, right?

Had lunch this week with a friend I haven't seen in months. She's been plagued with money problems since I've known her, partly the result of unwise decisions made from ignorance and emotional need. She told me she'd been working with a financial advisor, setting a budget, planning for retirement, looking into incorporating her freelance work to take advantage of tax law changes. She's contributing to an IRA! I was so pleased and happy for her, and frankly relieved as well -- she has little family, and they don't have the resources, emotional or financial, to help her if something should go badly awry.

And then she told me I'd been a big influence in her making these changes, through my encouragement and as an example, and I nearly dissolved in the warm gooey feels. Me, a model for good. Me, a help to someone. Words fail.


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