Climbing Out One Family’s Adventure in Becoming Debt-free

What’s going on around here? Where ya been?!

Sorry for the radio silence this past week. The Dad works in the entertainment industry and sometimes things kick into overdrive when a deadline nears.

Last week sported 17-hour days and very little sleep.

Still, that means lots of overtime and more snow to pack on to our debt snowball!

More soon,
the Dad

A bit of ironic history today on Climbing Out. Halloween is huge at our house. Huge. Last year I built a 26′ pier, pneumatic crates and air cannons, and talking skeletons. In fact, I usually take the week before Halloween off to finish setting up. Last year (2008) on the Friday before that week my cell phone rang…

For seven years I have worked two jobs. One is the main gig with health benefits and the like, bringing home around $4,000 each month. The other has enabled much of our current lifestyle, takes only one evening per week and brings in another $1,200 each month. Nonetheless we were living beyond our means after racking up tens of thousands in general stupidity, vacations we couldn’t afford and personal debt for The Wife’s business.

I knew it was bad news when that phone rang and I heard my boss from Job #2 say “hi” …continue reading