I Came Home From a 12-Hour Shift to a Maxed Card and a Mess—So I Cleaned Everything and Set the Boxes by the Door

said goodbye and went our separate ways in the store.

I made the final payment on the credit card debt eighteen months after the divorce. The last card had a balance of eight hundred dollars. I paid it off in full on a Friday afternoon in June.

I logged into the account and watched the balance change to zero. Then I checked the other cards—all zeros.continue reading …