The Beginning
I have always had an interest in money (who hasn't), whether that's spending or saving. In my early 20s, I had maxed out 11, that's right, ELEVEN credit cards. This eventually lead to me dropping out of nursing school to pursue a second job. Fast forward about three years, I was still tired of always being broke. I hadn't learned my lesson with the cards, I would pay them off, just to build them right back up. There was one time we literally collected change to use the Coinstar to buy groceries. We very carefully selected $25 dollars worth of groceries because we were scared of going over. Get to the checkout line and realized I had lost the Coinstar slip. We had to walk away from our groceries; our meals for the next week. Fortunately I worked at a facility at the time where I could order food against my future paycheck so that's what I did. Fast forward a couple years later, I had gone back to nursing school and graduated with my LPN (Licensed Practical Nurs