A Long Awaited Announcement

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Have you ever had such great news that you wanted to share it with everyone?
Shout it from the rooftops, hold a sign above your head saying you did it or jump up and down doing your little happy dance?
I know Kaitlyn was feeling this emotion before she shared her baby news!
Well today that time has come for me! To share my LONG awaited announcement!

I received this little note in the mail!

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I paid off my car!!!!

I know, most of my friends and family were rooting for another little one but not this time! In my little corner of the universe this is epic!! How many of you have a car payment right now? How many of you wish you didn’t? That was the feeling I’ve had for ten years! Yes people ten years I have been paying a car payment! I bought my first car, a Ford Focus when I was sixteen and not long after totaled it in a car accident (it was the other person’s fault). I then replaced it with the same car and kept that for two years.

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I then got tired of the car and decided to look into something a little larger. I had moved in with my husband, we spent a lot of time in the car and thought we may or may not be having babies soon. So I traded the Focus in for a Ford Escape. That lasted about two years also. It seems I have this trend going on. Jobs and cars usually lasted about two years before I was off to a new one. (This has obviously changed as I grew older).


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I then traded out the Escape for my new and now paid off Pontiac G6. I was in love with this car.

Leather heated seats, black interior, blue exterior and the best quality it drove smooth and fast! I felt like I was driving a go kart speed racer! I have loved my car every day since and I have no regrets spending all of the money I put into purchasing the car. I feel very proud of myself that I stuck this one out and now I am able to save $450 a month!! With the roll overs and accident my payment skyrocketed! Can’t you tell. I mean seriously half of a house payment for one measly car? Yep I must have been in la la land to have made that deal. But I did and now I can say I am back to the title of Mrs. Money Bags :)

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(I do still have other debt so don’t let me kid you, for the next six months I will be paying off my ovarian surgery bills) I’m just one step closer to becoming debt free! One thing ends and another begins. Such is life.

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