In Debt and Need Help
I’m getting a huge amount of search phrases that basically say the same thing: “I’m in debt and need help!” It’s sobering and sad to read the different variations of search queries that bring some folks to this blog:
- how to become rich? help im in debt
- how to get your life together when you are in so much debt
- the sucking sound of debt
- i owe a lot of money and i want to get debt free
- can i get myself out of secured debt?
- how to get out of debt without wife finding out
- anyone who can help bring out someone from financial debts
- i am in such debt how to get out
- i am 42 and broke how do i get out of debt
- will i ever be able to get out of debt and buy a home again
- i am in debt. want to get out it.
- spouses that dont understand debt
- how to get debt paid and stay happy
These are just for the first 15 days of this month! I’m getting more all the time, so either the search engines are listing me better, or people are searching for these things more than before. I am hoping the search engines are listing me better, but I have this niggly little feeling it may be a combination of the two.
There was one search phrase on the list so far this month that made me smile:
- getting out of debt encouragement
I hope I was listed as number one for that search term!! I hope the people who found this blog from all of the above listed search phrases found some encouragement here! Some of the searches sound desperate, some sound bereft of hope, some sound depressed … but I sincerely wish for everyone who made the search and clicked through to my site to have found a little encouragement for their struggle to get out of debt.
Getting out of debt ain’t easy. I wasn’t blogging back when I started this financial journey, so y’all didn’t get to hear my thoughts, fears, and occasional despair. It happened, but I stuck with the plan and kept my eyes on the goal: ridding myself of the debt that was dragging us down. I had my down days, and I had a few times when I totally spazzed out about where the money would come from. But it **IS** possible.
I originally started this blog to chronicle my trials, tribulations, and victories as I worked towards becoming debt free. Now that I have achieved my goal, I hope this blog can serve as a beacon of hope to others who are thinking about getting rid of their debt and encouragement for the ones who are currently doing battle with the debt monster.
I’m going to keep an eye on the search phrase list in my stats. I have already compiled a list of search phrases that need posts to answer them, and will be adding to that list. Search engines have a strange way of pulling seemingly random words out of a post or page of posts to give a query results, and it truly does make for blogging inspiration for me. People are searching for these things. I’m going to try to offer a few answers, and a lot of encouragement!
