Put It In The Bank

In this post, which may well be a short one because I've been writing so much lately, I'm going to address another of my past mistakes.

Mistake #3: Throwing Away My Resources

Blackbeard: I did have a treasure. I had a big treasure. Lovely, I did. But I spent it all in one week. Among the flesh pots and gambling hells of Port Royal oh what a glorious week!

Steve Walker: Oh you know what you are? You are a total loss you're not even a respectable ghost! You're a phoney! A phoney!

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

So, I had a treasure once. Well, I didn't really, but I should have. I made plenty of money, I just threw it away as fast (or faster) than I got it. How? Well, mainly a dollar at a time. It was a long series of mistakes made over a long period of time. Why? I didn't know any better...

Sadly, I've got a certain amount of unhealthy pride. It's kept me from taking advice (from people that actually knew what they were talking about...) and it's kept me from studying subjects I didn't know anything about. Well, pride has lead me to poverty and I'm sick of it.

And that leads me to my next solution:

Fix #3: Saving What I Have

How do I do that? I have no idea... But I know the name of at least one guy that does: Dave Ramsey. I've decided that as soon as I can get my hands on any money I'm going to get one of his books and work through it. Once I do I'll try to come back here and let you all know how it went.

And that's it... I said it might be short...