Credit cards = $16,500 with a blown up minimum payment of $650 due by end of this month.
Student loans = $70,000 (2 separate loans—monthly payments total $477)
Back taxes owed = $6,500
Not being able to afford your life = priceless/worthless.
I am seriously stressed these days over money. I’m pretty much living check to check these days between paying all my bills and even back ones (the past winter oil bills are also painful). When some of these bills get bigger, I freak out. The big one right now is paying a $650 blown up payment on a credit transfer. I transferred the balance on two credit cards onto one for a reduced financing fee. I’m still not sure what the regular payments will be after this. Sadly I’m not even worth much more dead than alive as my debts would eat up any insurance claims.
My old professor used to say that once you sell a screenplay, you’re problems are over. Another friend told him “Well are you gonna buy it?” Lately it feels like getting one of my scripts sold is not going to happen. I get close but nothing ever happens. You know I don’t even want to be rich, I just want to be debt free. I want to live without worry. Not sure if that’s going to happen anytime soon.
I’m feeling frustrated at every turn and very little hope ahead. It really sucks.