DEBT FREE!!!

[bernie]

I paid all my taxes today. Even the 4 yrs of back taxes/with penalties that I accumulated (long, boring story) plus all the JP stuff.

My accountant did a kick ass job!

This erases all of it. Clean, gleaming slate from here on out.

First time in about 16 years.

Woo Hoo!!!

Hot Damn! What a feeling!!!

b

[Yeknom58]

Must be nice..I wish I owned 100% of my house but currently I'm at like 21% or some stupidly small number.

[plaster8]

That's awesome, bernie. Congrats. Now I just have to get my wife to increase her withholding so we don't owe four figures next year ...

(And yes, I still plan on doing those VH CDs for you -- I had a hard drive crash and have been dealing with that for a while. I discovered that I should probably start backing stuff up more often.)

[bernie]

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I wish I owned 100% of my house but currently I'm at like 21% or some stupidly small number

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Actually, none of my debts had any equity tied to them that would benefit me in the longrun other than paying them off.

They all sucked.

b

[zuluking]

Congrats and welcome to the club.

[Mayhap]

Nice goin'. Congrats.

/M

[Luv2DriveTT]

I'm about to pay off all my back taxes, but then I'm in the out house again for 2004. Good for you, wish me luck!

TT /images/graemlins/club.gif

[Justin A]

Congrats! That's awesome.

[whiskeytown]

I had a credit card debt that was hanging over my head for about 3 yrs...

I knocked out almost a 3rd of it with my tax return, and I'm gonna tighten my belt and knock out the rest of it with my next paycheck..

feels good, don't it /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Still in debt to the mother loving poker though - down $800 for the year so far.

RB

[gvibes]

I plan on being debt-free ... never.

However, I plan on paying off my student loans by 2025.

[Dariel86]

Congratulations!

[bernie]

Good luck.

It's a great feeling, let me tell ya.

b

[bernie]

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Still in debt to the mother loving poker though - down $800 for the year so far

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One good week/month and that'll be a distant memory.

Aces and faces!

b

[Punker]

Glad to hear it...keep this feeling in mind next time you pull out your credit card or any other debt creating instrument.

[Matt Flynn]

hey congratulations bernie. we had a net-worth-zero party a while back when my wife and i, for the first time in 11 years since the second week of our marriage, broke even. zero is sweeeet.

[Blarg]

Grats man! You're one of the rare ones to be that way. Must be a big load off!

[whiskeytown]

great story - I've got 7k in college debt in the late 90's - I got a contracting job that for a yr. paid 6 figures, so I was rolling in dough.

I called Sallie Mae and asked them what the lump sum was to pay it off....they told me, and I sent it -

next month I get a $14 due bill - apparently, they gave me the lump sum but not the 10 days for interest to acculumate -

so I called and bitched up a storm - I INSISTED I was done paying them and I had asked for a final balance and wasn't gonna let them tag it on.

Funny thing - I'm making tons of money hands over fist and I'm bitching insisting I wasn't gonna pay a $14 bill, because as far as I was concerned, I was OUT of DEBT, and they couldn't make me go back in...

and they destroyed my dream of being out of debt by saying I wasn't yet...

eventually, they wrote it off - they understood a guy who writes a check for 7K isn't gonna stiff them for 14 bucks.

funny how good it feels - you immediately get hostile to anyone taking it away from you again...LOL

RB

[bernie]

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funny how good it feels - you immediately get hostile to anyone taking it away from you again...LOL

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You're right. I don't ever want to be in that situation again. I hated being in debt to anyone. It sucked.

b

[27offsuit]

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I paid all my taxes today. Even the 4 yrs of back taxes/with penalties that I accumulated (long, boring story) plus all the JP stuff.

My accountant did a kick ass job!

This erases all of it. Clean, gleaming slate from here on out.

First time in about 16 years.

Woo Hoo!!!

Hot Damn! What a feeling!!!

b

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