Hello! This is the first post for my new blog! Exciting! I started this blog because I was inspired by an article by Cait Flanders to finally get my financial shit together. Her article talks about how she paid off 30K in credit card debt in two years and finally started saving money. That's great except she makes 55K a year; neither I nor anyone in my peer group makes 55K a year. We don't even come close! And furthermore, the way these self help stories nearly always focus on a highschool-to-college-to-career type path is not really relevant to our lives. I'm in my thirties. I do have some college, but not a four-year degree. I dropped out of highschool because it wasn't fun and I spent four years traveling around the United States because it was. When I did settle down I wasn't much more stable; I still moved frequently back and forth across the country and I rarely kept a job more than a year. All that being said, I have always been a hardworking and respon...