Paid in Full!

We are one step closer to being completely out of debt! Well, except for the house, but don't most people have a house payment for most of their lives anyway? Today I paid off a credit card with a balance of $7279.17! Tomorrow, because I forgot to call today, I am cancelling this card. It feels so good to get rid of this debt! This card has a very high limit so I'd rather just get rid of it then keep it on our credit reports as open, available credit. We have another card with a zero balance, and a high limit that Dale will have to cancel when he gets home as it's in his name. There is still a balance of just over $9000 on our last card. I will have that paid off before Dale gets home in early August. He threatened to return to Iraq, instead of retiring, if I didn't get the credit cards paid off before he came home. Lots of tears (from me of course) many hurtful things said (also from me), and promises to make sure the cards were paid off (again, from me), he gave in and said he will definately retire from the Army when he comes home. This is the only good thing that has come out of his being deployed to Iraq. Fifteen months of tax free money means 2 years of enormous tax refunds, plus the extra money he is making while being over there = getting out of debt.

 

Now, if we can just win the lottery so I can get that new van, he can get a new truck, we could pay off the house, and Dale could retire permenately!

 

If it seems like I'm braging, well, yeah, I guess I am. We've had credit card debt for nearly 10 years, and it just feels good to be getting rid of it. Not to mention the fact that if Dale doesn't find a job right away we wouldn't even be able to make the minimum payments on these cards!