Of sudden windfalls
May. 17th, 2005 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterYesterday, I received a $1900 windfall that was entirely unexpected. It just...up and fell in my lap, pretty much.
This has enabled me to pay off $1400 in credit card bills, as well as my current phone, cable, and utility bills, and still have a good bit left over. Combined with the $900 I'm getting from the medical research lab at the end of the month (which will pay off the last $800 of the 2003 food poisoning hospital bill), I'm going to be totally debt-free by June! (Well, except for my student loans, which I consider not so much a debt as a force of nature.) This will enable me to concentrate all my effort on paying off those pesky student loans, and get away from the bleeding edge of debt that all these bills were slowly driving me into. I'll even be able to put money into savings permanently, instead of putting it in and then taking it out a couple of weeks later because I need it.
It all happened so fast...I went from $2200 in debt to $0. It doesn't feel like anything's changed. But...I suddenly have spending money again. And the irony is, I can't think of anything I really want enough to spend it on.
This has enabled me to pay off $1400 in credit card bills, as well as my current phone, cable, and utility bills, and still have a good bit left over. Combined with the $900 I'm getting from the medical research lab at the end of the month (which will pay off the last $800 of the 2003 food poisoning hospital bill), I'm going to be totally debt-free by June! (Well, except for my student loans, which I consider not so much a debt as a force of nature.) This will enable me to concentrate all my effort on paying off those pesky student loans, and get away from the bleeding edge of debt that all these bills were slowly driving me into. I'll even be able to put money into savings permanently, instead of putting it in and then taking it out a couple of weeks later because I need it.
It all happened so fast...I went from $2200 in debt to $0. It doesn't feel like anything's changed. But...I suddenly have spending money again. And the irony is, I can't think of anything I really want enough to spend it on.
