Comments on: Paying Off the Debt

By: hopefulloser

hopefulloser — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:52:27 +0000

YAY new progress pics coming soon!

And congrats on clearing the debt, I love that analogy.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:39:16 +0000

Nikki – Thanks for stopping by! I’m going to update with a new twirly pic as soon as my brother returns my digital camera. So be on the look out!

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:38:00 +0000

Kirsten – A credit card can be a dangerous weapon. I need at least one so I can buy things online, but I think it’s good of you to stay away from them if you think you’d miss a payment. The interest just compounds upon itself, costing you a lot.

I’ll go check out Diet Girl. I’ve been reading a lot of diet blogs the last two weeks and seriously need to update the blog roll. There’s so much good stuff out there!

I should probably shut up about “200-pound whiners” myself. I think I have a distorted perspective being 5’9″. If I were 200 pounds, I’d only be about 40 pounds overweight. However, if I were 5’2″ that would be closer to 80 or 70 pounds overweight – huge difference.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:37:26 +0000

Totally true. Trimming debt is as painstaking as trimming my waistline and I have a bit of both. I have to say the the debt milestones are more predictable, which make is better.

PS. I found you from Hopeful Loser and I really like your twirly pics.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:09:10 +0000

I really like your debt analogy – and am impressed that you’ve managed to overcome all that financial bad luck. (I am scared of credit cards and have never had one for fear I would forget to make a payment and rack up a huge debt without noticing. If only I’d had the same attitude to exercise etc. I’d be… dunno. Thinner than I am now.)

I’m new here and have just read all your archives. You write really well and I wish my nasty off-the-peg site looked as good as this (your progress pics are so funky).

Given what you’ve said about being tired of 200-pound whiners – do you know http://www.dietgirl.org? Definitely not a whiner, and a brilliant, funny writer. And although she’ll kill me for saying this, her story is really inspiring.

And OK, yes, I am under 200 pounds, but I try not to whine…