Soooooooo.... last you heard we were considering some land. Expensive land with some geographic challenges but still land in an oil boom area. However, it wasn't sitting right on us. So we did some praying and we did some hairy eyeballing at each other, dancing around without coming out and saying we were having serious doubts. Then we spilled and compared notes.
We passed on the land.
And considering that we pay an extraordinary amount of rent for this house here, things were really looking sad.
Until the very next morning I was driving the kids to tennis camp when I saw it.... alittle "for rent" sign in a window.... in a little stone house, in the awesome neighborhood where I take the kids everyday to play anyway.
So I casually mention it to Dave, then when he's interested I drive him by....... and we call. Then we go see.
Then we had a reality check.
It's a 2 bedroom, it's a house over 100 years old, it's a tiny little stone house about the size of our first apartment. IT'S A FOURTH OF THE PRICE we currently pay for rent a month.
HOLY SMOKES, God is good. If we are willing to take a step down and get there.........
See while we were joking about the "tiny house" and admiring the "tiny rent payment" when it kinda hit home......
(be prepared for some real truth here peeps, my life is getting real)
We are three bills away from being debt free.
Let me say that again.... we are three bills away from being debt free.
One being a house that we plan to sell this coming year or next, one vehicle and one card.
It was three years ago that Dave and I began our Dave Ramsey push towards getting rid of SO MUCH FREAKING DEBT.
I'll discuss the journey at a later date, it's a fun, bumpy ride.....
But here we are thinking of seriously adding 200k worth of debt to our portfolio and we realized how freaking close we truly are to being debt free.
There are very few people who can honestly say they are debt free.
I plan on being one.
So join us.....
We are putting alot of stuff in storage, moving into the tiny little rental house and hitting the following goals:
1. fill the emergency fund (thanks Dave Ramsey for the idea)
2. Pay off card
3. Pay off truck
4. Pay down home mortgage to sell (note, we don't live there, it's in another state with a tenant)
5. fill up savings to bursting
Oh and have fun on the way. I'll honestly document every dramatic issue and fun, horror-filled moment along the way....
Join us........
Griswalding our own way!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Follow the Journey, Laugh with Me (Or at me)
