Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

Andrew has  $12,000 of debt!  And yes, I did mean Andrew and not Matt.  Has he forsaken his Listen Money Matters principles?  Find out the shocking details. It’s not as scandalous as it sounds. Half of this is on a zero APR Home Depot credit card and those were expenses to remodel the kitchen.  The other half is a series of things that all hit at once, conference tickets, a vacation, mortgage tax.  Life got in the way and he did end up with finance charges. This episode is one of the reasons I was a fan of LMM long before I started working here.  Andrew owns up to his mistake and talks about it so he can help other people avoid the same.  Because if it happens to someone like him, it can happen to any of us, no matter how together our shit. This is how Andrew plans to redeem himself, and as penance, he’s going to document it in an article for us all to judge, (getting a little Dave Ramsey up in here.) The first thing he did was to set up an account with our friends at Ready for Zero to make payments to ki