Thinking about... Debt

I’ve been thinking a lot about my debt; specifically, how I have more than I thought.

Now that I’m actually starting to list them out, I’m realizing I had more than I remembered. Granted some of them are relatively small, but they are still debts. I thought about the trip we took in December to Universal Studios and how I owe my friend for the hotel. I thought about our kitchen and that we still have an outstanding bill for the plumber (my brother) that needs to be paid. I, of course, thought about our credit card and car. I remembered we owe our kids a bunch of money that we used to pay off our other credit card.

In other words, the debts just started piling up, and with them, my sadness.

It would be so easy to say some debts “don’t count”, but I would be lying. All our debts count. Even the small ones. Even the ones to friends. Even the ones to family.

All debts count! The small ones might even count more than the big ones because they are easier to pretend they don’t exist.

A lot of stuff is coming up in the next few months, the biggie being that we are seriously looking into selling our house (and therefor increasing our debt for a bigger house). This will definitely make our finances look different over the next few months. We’ll have to see what happens!