Not sure where to post my thank you...

**frugal.lass** · 01-25-2008, 04:18 PM

I've been a member here for awhile now but I wanted to take a few minutes to thank everyone involved with Frugal Village. I was working in a job I hated even though it paid well. I had credit card debt of about $6000 (not HUGE but definitely a stressor for me) that never went away, despite my constant payments (duh...need to stop using it AND make payments for the balance to drop). For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why I was living paycheque to paycheque. I was very unhappy about my life and frankly, felt lost. Coming by this website, reading other people's posts, absorbing ("stealing"!!) their ideas and generally just seeing how people could choose to do something that made them happy by making changes with their finances really kept me going. It took me a few months but I managed to change things. I work at a job I enjoy despite the lower pay and have managed to almost completely pay off my CC (it will be paid off Feb 2nd, after my paycheque clears and I make the last transfer!!).

Everybody here helped me re-evaluate my priorities and without realizing it, provided the support and inspiration for me to make the necessary changes. My new job has an intense schedule that involves being out of town about two-thirds of the month and makes some aspects of frugality VERY hard to accomplish so I'm haven't earned my black-belt in the frugality department (yet!!) but you have taught me how to look at everything differently and make frugality "work" for me. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.