Why create a blog? What is the purpose of writing about my personal finance journey?
Unburdening.
It is a huge burden on my shoulders to have this financial mess. Each day, it is the first thing I think about. Each night, I toss and turn, crunching the numbers in my head, trying to figure out how to get through another month. I made the decision a long time ago to change my financial ways. For a long time, I have been penny pinching, scrimping, reusing, and forgoing major purchases. Yet I still feel so burdened. I want so badly to talk about what I'm going through, but finances are still a taboo topic in our society. No one talks about what they make, never mind how much they owe. It helps me enormously to write about it, telling whomever reads this how I got on this path, and what road I am taking to get back to a state of financial health.
I am on a conference call currently, listening to how my profession is going to cope with massive funding cuts. I am trying not to think what will happen to us if I lose my job.
