Archive for the 'Our Story' Category

Never Find a *Debt* Like This

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In Debt and I go back so far… oh, whatever. Cut the corny lyrics, In Debt and I just realized that we’re in debt. Okay, so we knew it before, but we finally got around to calculating the exact […]

The Past Few Months

Monday, January 14th, 2008

As you might have guessed from my previous post, finding a job in Young’s native region didn’t go quite as quickly as I’d hoped. Over the past few months, I have gotten a little contract work, but nothing permanent.
In part, I realize, this is because I haven’t really been going about things in an efficient […]

My Financial Background - Young

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

As a child my parents explicitly taught me about money, and specifically to avoid debt. They had no mortgage and paid their credit card(s) off each month. They never talked about credit scores because they were irrelevant. The point was to spend less than I earned- a lot less. I took their lessons very seriously […]

My Financial Background - In Debt

Friday, January 4th, 2008

One of the challenging things about trying to manage finances as a couple is the differences in our financial backgrounds, and the consequences that this has on our current attitudes and behavior. This is a summary of my (In Debt’s) background.
When I was growing up, debt never really affected me negatively. I was vaguely aware […]