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Remember how I said I was suffering from high speed internet withdrawal? Well, it was because I was out of town. It’s so hard sometimes because I want to share with everyone what is going on (and in this case how much money we were spending), but I have to stop myself. It’s probably not the best thing to declare publicly that our home is vacant so I hope you understand why I haven’t said anything until now.

We went on a journey to visit our parents. It’s a good ten or eleven hour drive for us. Needless to say, I am exhausted after the drive back and from being busy visiting with everyone. But it was very nice because I only see family about once a year, sometimes more if someone comes to visit us.

This time, we did things a little bit differently. Since we are on a “no spending to get stuff” kick, we bypassed buying trinkets and ended up spending some money for experiences. By that, I mean things like going on a boat ride and going up to the top of a very high tower where I experienced an almost paralyzing fear (more about that later).

I still haven’t tallied all of the travel damage yet, but I don’t think it will be too bad. We did spend one night in a hotel and of course there is the money for gas and food while traveling. We also took the opportunity to buy my husband some new shoes because we were in a big city for part of our trip. The stores around me don’t like to carry his size and the shoes he was wearing had a dime-sized hole right in the bottom of the sole. I’ve never seen someone do that before with a pair of shoes.

As a plus, I did get a huge garbage bag of hand-me-down clothes for my son from my sister-in-law. They will fit my son in a year or so. That was very kind of her to give those to us because it will save us a bit of money.

To be able to visit with my family, well, the trip was worth every penny we spent. I’m looking forward to being debt-free so perhaps we can visit more often than once a year. That’s something else I can hold onto to help keep us motivated.

A Quote About Luck, Destroying Credit Cards and Living a Life Without Credit or Debt

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I have missed having high speed internet the last few days so much. I’m normally a person with a lot of patience (many people tell me that all the time). But put me in front of a computer with an internet speed that crawls and I go crazy. Now that I am back online at the normal speed, I was able to grab a few posts to highlight this week and I can get back to regular posting.

Debtspiration shares a quote from Phil McGraw about luck.

Becoming & Staying Debt-Free discusses the Top 24 Ways to Destroy Your Credit Cards. Once we pay off our credit card debt, I’ll be cancelling and destroying some cards. I’d like to do the #1, but with a reel mower, it wouldn’t quite work.

Zen Habits has an article on Living a Life Without Credit or Debt. If this is a route you would like to take with your debt reduction plan, you should give this article a read.

Lastly, I would like to say thank you for the very kind words and the Blogger Reflection Award I received from My Domestic Church.