DJ doubled her income but feels frozen by lifelong credit-card debt. The elementary school teacher in New York spent years buying clothes on store cards like Express, and now can't account for where her money goes.
How long have you had the debt?
Probably my whole life. Really? Yeah. I graduated college and I became an elementary school teacher in a really high cost of living area. And I lived off credit cards. I would want a new outfit every weekend to go out, so I would go to the mall and buy a new outfit.
Where'd you go to college? What area?
New York.
Oh. So what'd you get, a Chase card?
No, I had cards at stores like Express. Express? I had Express.
Bb I.
Didn'T have one of those. No, I didn't have one of those. I had Express and Macy's. Express got really bad. Crazy bad. I paid it off eventually.
