We had another unexpected challenge to our get out of debt plan this week. It became time for a new Asus netbook and it's not what I wanted to have happen at all.
My fateful Asus Netbook bit the dust after 2.5 years of heavy use. It survived the wilds of Alaska, the confines of my backback and everywhere else that I have been. It's been dropped, bumped and banged around and survived - until now.
It turns out that my daughter's cute little puppy is the one thing that the Asus Netbook could not survive. He crashed right into the electrial cord when he went bounding across the house. My trusty Asus computer went one direction. Each half of the electrical cord went in other directions. Believe me when I say that the sight wasn't pretty.
Debt isn't fun. I don't need a math tutor to figure out that our get out of debt plan slid backwards some more. Earlier this month we maxed out one credit card when car repair costs exceeded $1,200.
The computer isn't the one of my dreams.At $250.00 from Amazon.com it's the netbook that fits my budget. If we hadn't been pushing so hard to reduce our debt I probably would made a bad decision. It's likely that I would have borrowed the money and gotten the Asus netbook with the bells and whistles that I'd like to have.
Thankfully, extra writing work came my way that may cover my new netbook. I'm still working on the car repair. Something tells me that I'll be at it awhile. We're going to have a yard sale next month that should help too. On the plus side, if we hadn't worked off some of the older debt my car would be forlorn but not forgotten in my driveway.
The new Asus netbook is an expense that I didn't want but it is a tool that I need. Without the extra income getting out of debt wouldn't be a real possibility. Despite the problems I think that the future still looks brighter.
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