It’s Official! Less Than $10,000 of Debt Left!
It’s official now! We have less than $10,000 left of debt to pay off! Hubby’s credit union finally processed the two payments I sent out last week towards the truck note and we only owe $9,962.21 on it! We have just passed that psychological milestone and no longer owe “five figures” even though it only represents $635 worth of debt payment.
This feels like a big victory, even though we have paid off more than this at one time. Strange, isn’t it? The way the mind works when it comes to numbers…I don’t understand the mechanism behind it, since I only had general psychology and that was back in ‘02. I can’t really explain it (anyone care to take a stab at it??) but I do like the the feeling it gives me. Let me try to explain:
Back when I was in the army, we would get up once a quarter at “zero-dark-stupid” and put on a rucksack (fancy military word for a backpack) with 25 pounds in it then walk for 12 miles. Usually by the 7th or 8th mile, I was feeling it. Hubby was in the army with me at the time, even though we were just friends back then, but he would walk behind me and lift up on my rucksack, essentially taking the weight off my shoulders for a short while. Having the truck note go down from five figures to only four figures feels about the same way.
Has anyone else felt the same way?
