Today I stopped in at a bookstore to pick up a book about personal finances. To be perfectly honest, as a 30 year old woman, I've never once in my life sat down and budgeted my income. Not once... ever! Now, to be even more honest, this has gotten me into a bit of trouble along the way. Being young, single, working two jobs, making a lot of money and having a perfect credit score made me feel invincible. I took advantage of it and...
Back to the reality of today. I'm now married. Am currently un-employed. Am back in school. Am buried under a monster school loan and a pile of other debt. Am trying to get my personal finances and my life under control. To be honest, I have no idea how to do this. So today I scowered the seemingly endless supply of "get rich quick" books, investing schemes and the "do what I did" advice from every jerk whose ever made a buck and finally found one book that I think will help. At least, it seems reputable enough.
So now I'm sitting here with a book of action, a pile of coupons, a grocery list and some sort of plan. Let's see where it goes from here.
