Sometimes You Just Need It

I purchased a couple of less necessary items recently. I bought a weedeater because our yard has different levels and I can't mow right up against the lower level which leaves a line of tall grass between the level. Same thing with the fence on each side of the yard. So I got a $40 electric weedeater. I thought it was a wise investment. Plus our electricity bill is set up so our power only comes from renewable sources (wind, solar, wave energy) then the electric weedeater isn't harming the environment. Then I got Krystal a digital picture frmae for mother's day. It's a gadget that we don't need, but it's not big. It's a fairly portable object that has thousands (or can have thousands) of pictures on it. We haven't had much luck seeling much more stuff. The big ticket items were gone pretty quick. Now that the weather is getting nicer I am going to start cleaning out the garage and taking stuff to the dump or Goodwill. We're turning what used to be the TV rooom into an activity room. The living room has become the office. My friend gave me a drawing table to set up next to our desk so I have something to lay plans out on when I'm bidding jobs. That baby was FREE. Otherwise our house is getting pretty cleared out. Right now if I do purchase something the biggest thing I look for is something portable. Digitizing all our media so we don't have racks of DVD's or CD's. If we ever get a new computer, maybe we'll get a laptop. I want less stuff, but at the same time, the stuff I do need has to be space saving and/or portable. Because the goal is to get out of debt and maybe travel. We'd like to rent an RV and just take an extended road trip in a couple years. So media on a harddrive on a laptop would be great. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The first payment into the credit counseling service has been sent. So as of the 20th I stop paying our credit cards individually and pay $233 once a month. The service splits it up and pays the credit cards which all have between 0% and 2% interest now. I was paying a collective $362 a month in minimum payment so we're saving $129 a month now. And I can pay more a month to pay the cards off faster. My small section of student loan is down to $400, so I will pay that off hopefully in the next month or so and that will be a $55 a month bill gone.

We're getting there.