A New Look on the Domestic Domain

So I picked up a book at the library titled " The Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey. What an absolutely mind opening book. It is a must read for every single person in this world. If you are NOT debt free, read the book!! Simple as that. So after having read the book we have decided that life is going to change in the Jarvis household. We are attacking our debt with gazelle intensity!! ( Read the book, you'll get it) We have cut every luxury and by following the book we can be out of debt in about 1 year and then we can have a down payment for a house in about 2 years and then we figure that we can be out of the mortgage in about 5-6 more years. That means that before Daniel and I are 40 years old we will be completely debt free. With the gazelle intensity that we are working at it tough I think we could be done in as short at 6 years total, not the forcasted 8 years.

Dave's motto in this book is;

" Live like no one else, so you can live like no one else"
and this is exactly what we intend!!

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