Just wanted to check back in out your debt reduction plan. If you have debt, you really need a plan to get out. Seriously. Let me know how you're doing.
Here's today's tip for you - procastinate.
Not really. But sort of. Paul and I read the book by David Platt, Radical, and it had some great ideas about how to live a lifestyle that kicks materialism in the teeth. I urge you to read it. One of our takeaways was to postpone any significant purchases for a year. In our case, significant included no car replacement, house painting, new roof, or vacation that year. We seriously did little else other than food, school books, minimal clothes & gifts for a year.I think we could have done with even less, actually. It was manageable. And on the gifts thing, we requested that, in lieu of gifts for ourselves, that a donation be made to a couple of charities that we esteem highly. It was hard for a few relatives but we loved it. So much that we repeated the request for a couple of years.
Why don't you try it? A year with the fewest purchases possible. What to do with what you don't spend??? Save. Pay off debt. Give.....
Here's today's tip for you - procastinate.
Not really. But sort of. Paul and I read the book by David Platt, Radical, and it had some great ideas about how to live a lifestyle that kicks materialism in the teeth. I urge you to read it. One of our takeaways was to postpone any significant purchases for a year. In our case, significant included no car replacement, house painting, new roof, or vacation that year. We seriously did little else other than food, school books, minimal clothes & gifts for a year.I think we could have done with even less, actually. It was manageable. And on the gifts thing, we requested that, in lieu of gifts for ourselves, that a donation be made to a couple of charities that we esteem highly. It was hard for a few relatives but we loved it. So much that we repeated the request for a couple of years.
Why don't you try it? A year with the fewest purchases possible. What to do with what you don't spend??? Save. Pay off debt. Give.....