I was 22, fresh out of my Bachelors program, with a new husband and no idea how to adult. It was January 4, 2016. Instead of contentment and residual holiday joy, I felt panic and shame.
We had $0 in our checking account. $0 in our savings account. $0 to our names.
I decided in that moment, with tears welling up in my eyes, that I was done.
I was done following in the footsteps of the money mismanagement I had grown up with.
I was done having to choose between medication and food.
I was done struggling every single day because I didn’t know what I was doing with finances.
I decided to change.
Time To Pull Myself Together
I created my Instagram page to document my journey, broke out my markers to create a debt payoff chart, and read Dave Ramsey’s book, Total Money Makeover in one night.
For the next year and a half, all I thought about was climbing out of debt.
I stopped spending money, worked my ass off, budgeted every single cent, and surrounded myself with people who were on the same path.
From January 4, 2016 to August 25, 2017, I paid off $60,000.
This may seem like the perfect sequence of events:
*Girl finds out she’s doing it all wrong, manages to turn her life around, parades and celebrations everywhere*
Unfortunately, that’s not how it went.
Life decided to smack me in the face with divorce and job loss.
From 2017-2018, I managed to pay for my divorce in cash, and save up $7,000 by living on ramen noodles.
We just keep it pushin’ like aye aye aye
In 2019 I met my partner, Joe, and moved to Boulder, Colorado. I decided I was done playing the corporate game and opened my own business, Weir Digital Marketing - which has now allowed me to begin Vee Frugal Fox
If I Can, You Can
Here’s the deal:
I’m not a finance expert
I’m not a married, rich, white dude
I’m not someone who thinks it’s ‘my way or the highway’
I’m not going to unveil how to ‘get rich quick’ (If you know how, email me)
I’m here because I believe financial education, resources, and help should be accessible to all people seeking it.
There are 7 billion people on this planet, and every single one of them comes in contact with money. My passion is to help as many of them as I can.
So let me guide you on your trek to financial freedom.
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xo,
- Vee