Money: Intro
3 January 2008 Jeff Gill
This is the beginning of a series on the financial journey of the Gill family. I like stories about how people rise above difficult circumstances, but normally one hears or reads such stories after the fact when the protagonist is rich, the bad guys are dead or in jail, and all the struggle is condensed into a three-and-a-half minute song. I thought it might be nice and possibly helpful to do this one in real time with conversation along the way. So here I go. Let’s start with a slideshow about the finances of Britons I made for my church in February 2007.
When I put that slideshow together we were carrying just below the average amount of UK household debt and I was doing a very poor job of managing our finances. In my next money post I will tell the story of how we got to where we are. After that I plan to write about what we are doing to get out of our mess. Some time in the future this story should have a happy ending. I guess I’ll keep going till it does.
You are, of course, welcome to add your stories and ideas at any point.
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