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Topic: I think y'all will understand...
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inconnu
♀ 24518
Member # 24518 |  Posted: 8:53 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 |     |
I just paid my annual HOA fees.
Before the due date (just barely, they're due tomorrow)
On time, for the first time since the divorce. And I wrote a check. I didn't have to put it on a credit card.
It seems like such a little thing, but damn, it makes me feel like I really am finally heading in the right direction financially. 
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do. ~ Brené Brown
Posts: 12659 | Registered: Jun 2009 | From: DeepInTheHeartof, Texas |
Amazonia
♀ 32810
Member # 32810 |  Posted: 8:57 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
Posts: 14423 | Registered: Jul 2011 |
ajsmom
♀ 17460
Member # 17460 | | Posted: 8:59 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Woo Hoo!!!
Good for you!
AJ's MOM
Fidelity isn't a feeling...it's a choice.
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always." - Albert Schweitzer
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Me: BW - Him: 200+ # tumor removed 7/09
DS - 33 - Yikes!
Posts: 21310 | Registered: Dec 2007 | From: Been Through Hell...On My Way Back |
Williesmom
♀ 22870
Member # 22870 | | Posted: 9:00 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
I totally understand. You are taking names and kicking ass!!
You can stuff your sorries in a sack, mister. -George Costanza
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. - Madeleine Albright
Posts: 8904 | Registered: Feb 2009 | From: Western PA |
fraeuken
♀ 30742
Member # 30742 | | Posted: 9:03 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
I so understand. 17 years of my life I could not do that. Now I do exactly what you do. I have less money available to me be before when I look at it on an income basis but I seem to be able to pay for everything on time and still have a little left over. Congrats! It feels great.
Temporarily independent with the whole world at my feet.
Posts: 1304 | Registered: Jan 2011 | From: California |
nutmegkitty
♀ 33882
Member # 33882 | | Posted: 9:19 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Excellent!!
me (BS)
him (NPD Ex)
2 dds
DDay 10/7/11
OW
OC
Divorced 1/17/2013
"Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend, freedom is."
Posts: 2971 | Registered: Nov 2011 | From: MA |
StillLivin
♀ 40229
Member # 40229 | | Posted: 9:50 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
After bills last month...oh and necessities (unexpectedly had to replace car battery), I had just a $38 before the next paycheck hit.
BUT, I didn't use the credit card for anything, including the unexpected emergency expenses that came up that month!
Woo hooo for all of us!
ETA: Oh, and I was still able to put money in savings and didn't touch it at all when the battery died!!!!! [This message edited by StillLivin at 10:01 AM, January 30th (Thursday)]
"Bitch please a good man can't be stolen." ROFLMAO - SBB
D: 7/2/2014
Posts: 3789 | Registered: Aug 2013 | From: AZ |
PhoenixRisen
35912
Member # 35912 | | Posted: 10:00 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Posts: 543 | Registered: Jun 2012 |
Exit Wounds
♀ 32811
Member # 32811 | | Posted: 10:41 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Whoo Hooo! You are over the hump and now you are enjoying the rewards...I am so happy for you!
Exit Wounds
H of 17 years got gf pregnant, left our kids 9 & 11 and we never saw him again. -His choice.
Posts: 2649 | Registered: Jul 2011 | From: With my my dogs and my dad. |
gahurts
♂ 33699
Member # 33699 | | Posted: 10:45 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
This is great news!! I remember having to make those payments. I don't think I ever got it paid off before swimming season started up.
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indominable will" - Mahatma Gandi
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - Aubrie
Posts: 3960 | Registered: Oct 2011 | From: Georgia |
FaithFool
♀ 20150
Member # 20150 | | Posted: 11:01 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Good for you! 
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
Posts: 19841 | Registered: Jul 2008 | From: Canada |
better4me
♀ 30341
Member # 30341 | | Posted: 11:36 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
DDay 11/17/2010 BW:54
Divorced
Posts: 3880 | Registered: Dec 2010 | From: Iowa |
jemimapd
♀ 37895
Member # 37895 | | Posted: 12:46 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Congratulations! I am in exactly the same position: paying bills on time and building up an emergency fund. No more collection calls or fear of what is going to be in the mail today. No more "loans" to the idiot so he could buy lunch out every single day, buy scratch cards and fund his OW. As someone said, I have less income but I am better off because I am not subsidizing him or his business. I paid his business insurance, advertising and taxes. Crazy.
It is called peace of mind.
Jemima Puddleduck is a trusting soul....
DD 1 Dec 2012; Divorced 11/13; 2 children
Me: BS (47) Him: WH (52) Her: 3 PA's
Ex bought a house, The Money Pit With Mold That Will Never Be Finished. He's living in the basement.
Posts: 726 | Registered: Dec 2012 |
Phoenix1
♀ 38928
Member # 38928 | | Posted: 1:28 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
I SO get it! Congrats!
It is a great feeling to have that kind of control. I have loved being able to pay bills on time and not using credit cards to subsidize anything like the XPOS always did (even gas for cars)! XPOS was ALWAYS robbing Peter to pay Paul because he had champagne taste on a beer budget. Drove me insane, and is the reason why I have a huge financial mess to slowly dig my way out of. But I am getting there, albeit slowly!
Those little milestones are so very significant!
BS - Me
XPOS - too many OW/OCs over 20+yrs
Kids - DDs 25,19 -DS20 Deceased
D 2013
~Hakuna matata!~
I edit often because my tablet is possessed!
Posts: 2707 | Registered: Apr 2013 | From: Rising out of Hell's ashes! |
Charity411
♀ 41033
Member # 41033 | | Posted: 1:42 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Standing and aplauding!!!!!!
Posts: 726 | Registered: Oct 2013 | From: Illinois |
jo2love
♀ 31528
Member # 31528 | | Posted: 1:45 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Awesome!!!!
Posts: 46362 | Registered: Mar 2011 |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 2:14 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Yay!
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
Posts: 37304 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
inconnu
♀ 24518
Member # 24518 | | Posted: 8:29 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
and to continue with finally being on the right financial path, I became eligible this week to sign up for the company 401k so I got that taken care of today, too. Where I work will match the 1st 6% so I'm squeezing the budget to contribute 6%. It's not a ton of money, but it's a lot better than not having any retirement funds.
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do. ~ Brené Brown
Posts: 12659 | Registered: Jun 2009 | From: DeepInTheHeartof, Texas |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 8:38 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Major yay!
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
Posts: 37304 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
Chrysalis123
♀ 27148
Member # 27148 | | Posted: 10:15 PM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Someone I once loved gave me/ a box full of darkness/ It took me years to understand/ That this, too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
Posts: 3898 | Registered: Jan 2010 |
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