We put up with a lot to fulfill other people’s dreams, don’t we? Employment gives us a sense of security, a regular paycheck, health and life insurance and other perks. How much do we give up working for someone else dream, though? No more! We’re quitting the beige cubicle to travel the colorful world. One …
Continuing our fun and fabulous travel destinations series, our next amazing vacation was gay Sitges, Spain. I know you expected me to say Ibiza in relation to Spain. While Ibiza was fun and very gay, despite celebrating our straight friends’ marriage in Ibiza, Sitges trumps Ibiza by far. David had been to Sitges before and …
Traveling to Gay Puerto Vallarta Friends of ours had been traveling to gay Puerto Vallarta (PV) for years, but it was never in the cards for us even with as easy and cheap as it is to get to and vacation there. Our first trip to PV was to celebrate David’s 40th birthday. It was …
Ready To Start Fresh? My daughter is in Mrs. T’s Kindergarten class. Mrs. T starts off every morning with a hug for each of her 22 students. Her teaching assistant Mrs. A does the same thing, so every child in class gets two hugs before the day even starts. Not every student in Mrs. T’s …
Enlightenment in a Basement
In 2004, the two of us moved into a friend’s basement apartment. Our friend prefers to call it a “garden level walk-in”, but it does not meet the legal requirements to be called such. Therefore, we call it a basement apartment. Even today we refer to it as “The Basement”. We make fun, but it was a sweet deal for us financially and we fondly look back on our time there.
Though we didn’t know it when we moved into The Basement, we quickly realized that this was the answer to our financial problems. At the time, we had $51,000 in credit card debt. Shortly after moving into The Basement, we acknowledged our financial foolishness and devised a plan to climb out of debt, no 1980s music montage included. In about two and half years we paid off our credit card debt and in about four years we started shopping for our own home.