| Confession | Date |
I had a good job, a house, an airplane. I vacationed in Europe & South America. CC were maxed out.
Became ill. Lost my job, lost my house, airplane, motorcycle.
Living on SS now. Living on a 25\' boat and can\'t afford to repair it. Afraid it will sink anytime. May as well go down with it. | 09:33 PM Mar 05, 2007 |
| I am 32 years old and about $100, 000 in credit card debt. I recently moved to a new city and am drowning with the new cost of living. I am behind in my credit cards now and I have the cards calling. I don\'t know where to begin and I can\'t tell anyone. I am embarrased beacuse I make a good living and can\'t even afford my rent! | 12:49 AM Sep 07, 2007 |
I am plagued by feelings of no worth. My financial situation is all consuming and blocks any sense of value I have for this world. It impacts everything I think about myself.
I am desperate and ready have no way out.
I feel I will never get out from under this heavy burden and terrible legacy I leave my kids.
I am a terrible role model--careless and foolish.
I need help and I feel such pain, it is a physical pain that I have carried a long time. | 03:57 PM Apr 09, 2007 |
| I just need to save more money | 01:18 AM Nov 11, 2006 |
I have just worked out that I have 27 thousand pounds worth of debt. Currently I have no income at all, but as I am self-employed this can change. I am a terrible optimist. I am always believing something will bail me out. I feel furious with my husband for not being able to help me and yet I keep secrets from him, and spend silly amounts on designer clothes and flights and spa treatments. I seem to want to \'treat\'myself all the time. When I was younger I had an eating disorder and I think this is the same thing. I have had this much debt before and paid it off when I sold a flat so a part of me does not take it seriously and keeps thinking it will be OK. But another part of me feels it is spiralling out of control.
My spending seems to be fuelled by anger. Why shouldn\'t I have that? seems to be the gist of it. But for a while I was quite wealthy and still felt angry and deprived and resentful of other people, so I can\'t say that this \'deprived\' feeling is a true one. Sigh. | 04:49 PM Aug 21, 2007 |
| I just want to START fixing my DEBT problems and SEE results... | 01:31 PM Oct 31, 2006 |
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| My second credit card company is now threatening court action. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 04:06 PM Mar 10, 2007 |
| I have worked hard to re-establish my credit after filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2002. Now, somehow, I am back with more high bills than I can pay with my one monthly disability check.Even this check is not fully guanteed forever. My new career as a travel writer has never taken off; yet, the monies spent of course work, laptop needed, wardrobe needed, andpersonally paid trips to write about, all add to my financial woe. Two car accidents have cost me my car insurance plus $ 500 deductible X 2 plus rental car expense just to stay alive and buy groceries for my family of me, my 2 dearly-loved pups, and my 2 rescued Tabbys that are grown now.I just added up bank charges for NSF/service charges from mid-Oct. until today 1/09/2006 and they total over $ 1060.00 ! I never knew that my bank acct. did not have overdraft protection because it used to. | 11:06 PM Nov 09, 2006 |
| We, my husband and I have managed to have over 100,000 in debt after 7 years of graduate school. We are struggling to make ends meet, especially since a large portion of that debt is on credit cards. We should have spent less -- I kept thinking we would allow ourselves a slightly better lifestyle, even if it meant we would pay more later. Well we\'re paying more now, especially in interest. Our bills got so bad that we have had to use our nest egg just to get by. | 08:46 PM Jan 11, 2008 |