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[quote=Anonymous]Hey also (me again, with the shit-fan mantra and the Women's Center recommendation), despite the almost overwhelmingly ubiquitous advice to do otherwise and shaming that goes along with it, especially here on this board, debt ain't so bad.

I racked up RIDICULOUS credit card debt on fun stuff like groceries and utilities. I had cut every damn thing I could cut. Know what? I wasn't struck by lightning. Jacob Marley did not come for me in my dreams wearing a chain made of expired Amex cards. We don't have debtors prisons. Lots of people live relatively normal lives with crappy credit. Mine took FOREVER to pay off, and it sometimes still visits me. Whatever. We're fed, clothed, and housed, and I don't have a dickhead throwing dishes at my head and telling me I'm a crappy human being anymore. I think this was a positive trade off.

Pay housing first. Then food. Then whatever's going to get shut off first. Medical bills come LAST! They are not going to re-install your appendix or repo your inhaler.

Also, build your village.

You are NOT going to sink!!!!
xoxo

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