Dave Willis discusses the first decade of his marriage as a period of continual financial struggle: one modest income while raising young children forced creative budgeting and resourcefulness, and they accumulated credit card debt early on. Over time they learned financial principles, eliminated credit card and car payment debt, and now only carry a mortgage.
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Yeah, honestly the first, really over the first decade but specifically the first decade of our marriage it was constant financial struggle because you know, we had young kids, we had one income while we were having those, those, those young kids the one income we had wasn't, wasn't huge. We just had to stretch every dollar, get as creative as we could. We learned to be resourceful, we learned to be scrappy but we also made a lot of mistakes. You know, we got into credit card debt early on. We talked about that last episode and we just, we were just trying to keep our heads above water and you know, little by little we've learned financial principles that have really helped. We're not financial experts by any means but we've gotten out of debt with the, with the exception of our mortgage. We still have a mortgage but we don't have car payments, we don't have credit card debt. We.