View Single Post
Old 02-25-2010, 12:54 PM   #7 (permalink)
Merlocke
 
Merlocke's Avatar
 
Location: Canada
Quote:
Originally Posted by kutulu View Post
I'm not sure what money talks my parents had with me but I probably wasn't paying attention. Regardless of how much I've made, I've always lived from paycheck to paycheck. I just can't seem to save money. If it's in my account, I spend it. This goes for bonuses, tax returns, whatever.

My credit cards are maxed but I don't really care. Sure it sucks that I'm wasting money on interest but the alternative is paying the balances down more quickly and that sucks because it would eat into my available funds.

Historically, I've always had enough money to pay all my bills. In practice I've had random late payments due to forgetting to mail the payments. The result is a credit score that isn't great but I really don't care. I might be deciding to walk away from my house soon so late payments aren't going to make much of a difference on my credit score.

There are so many more important things to worry about than money.

I have plans for how much I need to pay towards my credit cards in order to get them to zero within the next couple of years and I could do it relatively pain free but I just can't get around to executing those plans and then not using that available credit once I get it on the card. Eventually I need to do it because it does frustrate me that I'm basically wasting all my money that goes towards interest.

I don't see the point of paying cash for a house though. Mortgages are usually given at a low interest rate, low enough that it isn't really worth delaying buying a house because you want to pay cash. It isn't like a car where you can delay the expense by driving a POS until you can afford a new one, you need a play to live and the difference in cost from a mortgage to rent isn't that much.

Paying cash for a house, and paying a mortgage are two entirely different things. You do get offered a really "low interest rate" but nobody ever does the math because it's "the norm".

Average mortgage payer ends up paying TWICE the cost of the house value due to front loaded interest on mortgage payments. Paying DOUBLE for something really sucks. But what's worse is when nobody cares to look it up.

Not trying to stand on a soapbox, just pissed off that I used to be in the same position til someone told me. (they did have to beat me up a little for me to listen though).
__________________
-=[ Merlocke ]=-
Merlocke is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360