20k!!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So how did I get started with this whole tossing 90%-of-my-stuff-getting-out-of-debt-budgeting thing? Honest answer: I was pissed off enough. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So, in honor of hitting 20k, I'd like to take a moment to thank all the stuff that reaaaaally pissed me off. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to the student loan I paid DOUBLE what I borrowed on. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to every purchase I justified at Target because I work hard so I deserve it and it's been a bad day so I deserve it and it was such an awesome day that I deserve it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to the credit cards I paid off and then maxed right back out again. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to the overpriced apartment, new couch, new bed, new dresser, new rugs, new art, new patio furniture I bought to prove to my peers that I was doing GREAT OVER HERE. And thank you to the beautiful weekends I dedicated to cleaning it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to all the days I just avoided the mail. and email. and signing into absolutely every account I had. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to all the hours I wasted sitting on the phone with collections trying to negotiate a payment plan. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to the stress-crying in my car and the always-long to-do lists, and the defensive conversations and the jealousy and all that avoiding avoiding avoiding. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to all THAT stuff that just repeatedly didn't work. So all THIS stuff now can. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And thank you to YOU. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I'm forever grateful for all of it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So... What are you pissed off about? 😊 #thatnostufflife
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