Tag Archives: family

My Wife and I Made Mistakes. I Can’t See a Way for the Family to Get Out of Debt. – Gary

Gary “Dear Steve, My wife and I do not use our credit cards any more. We did use them at one time just to survive. We also used them to pay for a vacation or two. One more thing in my job I was traveling for about 5 years and would use my personal credit [...]

Should We Just Throw Up Our Hands And Move On? – Jennifer

“Dear Steve, Relocated out of state…house did not sell for 2 years, finally sold in a short sale and we signed a 30k promissory note. ALL other credit is PERFECT, but we are treated like bad seed. CC companies raising interest rates and slashing credit limits. Go to a store to use a card and [...]

I Wonder Where My Sister is and Who She is Today

The last time I talked to my sister was probably in 2002. The irony is that the very thing that I do, help people with money problems, caused a rift between us that seems too big to repair, although I’d like to. Mary and her husband were having money issues and my parents wanted to [...]