<$Monday, April 14, 2008$>
Another snowflake, and thinking about the future
| We got our state refund check this weekend. It was initially going to be almost exactly enough to reimburse us for our tax preparer fees, but then the state held out some back taxes that Husband owed from 2003. On the upside, at least that won't count against us anymore, and the check will still make a nice snowflake to add to our debt snowball. Those taxes he owed, by the way, were from the year before we met. Let this be a lesson to you young'uns that the financial decisions (and mistakes) you make now not only affect your own future, but also that of your future significant other. I had pretty much decided I would never get married back when I ran up all of my credit card debt. Yet here I am, years later, married and struggling not to let my debt have a negative impact on my marriage, and delaying having children until the credit cards are paid off. It's hard to think about these things when you're young and single, but they do bear some thinking about. [/lecture] Labels: credit cards, debt reduction |
