Reworking the Budget
That’s what I’ve been doing this week… pouring over my budget and trying to figure out how it’s all going to work. And wishing I’d been able to pull off a debt consolidation last summer when I was trying to make that work. Maybe then I’d feel a little less pinched.
See, I’d worked out my budget for the next couple of months with one goal in mind: Pay off the laptop, and pay down as much as possible on my Chase credit card. Then I won a ticket to a conference this fall that I had wanted to go to, but decided I couldn’t afford. The price of the conference on top of the flight and the hotel just put it out of reach. But then! I won this ticket, and now all I have to cover is the flight and hotel… and figure out where the money is going to come from. And how much I’m willing to sacrifice all of the progress on my credit cards that I’d projected for the next couple months.
I know it will all work out, but man. Working and reworking the numbers sure does stress me out. I’ll be far less stressed as soon as I get a plan on paper.
