You all are overwhelming me with your amazing comments of congrats! Thank you SO MUCH!! We still have a way’s to go to be able to call Dave and proclaim we’re completely out of debt, but having this baby step DONE feels amazing!!

Forgive me for the caps, but I do believe this is one thing to CELEBRATE!!!!

I was going to wait to post this later this week, but I can’t stand it. I just paid the final balance on our consumer debt. Our DEBT is GONE!!!! You can watch the vlog to see my excitement (btw, I can’t stand myself on video but I wanted you to see the face behind the screen for this announcement).

As many of you know this is one of our personal goals for this year ^[1]. The goal was to have it gone by March 1. Well, what is today?? You know it, a day early even!

As mentioned in the video, I will share a series of posts about our financial history. There is so much I need to write, but I think looking as far back as possible helps me understand why some of the behaviors I have are the way they are. Look for that over the next couple weeks.

For now, that’s all I have for ya. I’m excited you would NOT believe!!

Oh, and for the record, apparently the Memo section in online banking doesn’t like exclamation points. I tried to enter 5 of ‘em as I put “Paid OFF!!!!!” but it wouldn’t let me! I know I love the exclamation point, but seriously bankers there are times when that form of punctuation is really necessary :)