Comments on: Be Sure to Check Your Windows http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/ Personal Finance Notebook: Ideas, education & motivation for financial success Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:34:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrenia http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2214 Patrenia Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:03:59 +0000 http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/?p=1356#comment-2214 Thank you so much Eva for your encouragement and sharing your Mom's story. It's definitely amazing how we allow little things to be so enormous in our minds. It's the disease of procrastination. Great example of a lesson learned! :-) Thank you so much Eva for your encouragement and sharing your Mom’s story. It’s definitely amazing how we allow little things to be so enormous in our minds. It’s the disease of procrastination. Great example of a lesson learned! :-)

]]> By: Eva Kaczkowski http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2170 Eva Kaczkowski Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:12:46 +0000 http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/?p=1356#comment-2170 Hi Patrenia, Just browsing through your blog, I am really enjoying what I read. You have a beautiful way of explaining things. I too truly believe, that a chip on a windshield always leads to a crack and a need to change, but if the chip was taken care of immediately the crack would have never appeared therefore no need for changing of windshield. Same goes for finances, my mom also loved not opening her mail, and a tax bill of $300 dollars lead to owing $7,000, little credit card bills, that never got paid, and finally led to loosing her home (condo) due to bankruptcy. All just because she was not able to deal with that one little issue at hand because at that time it just seemed so big and overwhelming. Lesson learned, always call your creditors and discuss any issues at hand. They often will help you in resolving them quickly, and your credit will stay in tact. Thanks again for making me remember, Eva Kaczkowski Hi Patrenia,

Just browsing through your blog, I am really enjoying what I read. You have a beautiful way of explaining things.

I too truly believe, that a chip on a windshield always leads to a crack and a need to change, but if the chip was taken care of immediately the crack would have never appeared therefore no need for changing of windshield.

Same goes for finances, my mom also loved not opening her mail, and a tax bill of $300 dollars lead to owing $7,000, little credit card bills, that never got paid, and finally led to loosing her home (condo) due to bankruptcy. All just because she was not able to deal with that one little issue at hand because at that time it just seemed so big and overwhelming.

Lesson learned, always call your creditors and discuss any issues at hand. They often will help you in resolving them quickly, and your credit will stay in tact.

Thanks again for making me remember,

Eva Kaczkowski

]]> By: Patrenia http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2157 Patrenia Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:29:42 +0000 http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/?p=1356#comment-2157 Yes, ignoring seems to be a better result (for the short term). Thank you so much Susan for the encouragement! Yes, ignoring seems to be a better result (for the short term). Thank you so much Susan for the encouragement!

]]> By: Susan Liddy http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2122 Susan Liddy Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:39:11 +0000 http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/?p=1356#comment-2122 All too easy to cast a blind eye on our finances. It can feel so stressful to be in debt or simply not have enough money to pay all of our bills. Yet ignoring it just results in more stress. I like your broken window analogy. One broken window becomes two broken windows... before we know it we're in a mess. Great article Patrenia! Love what you are doing with your blog! -Susan All too easy to cast a blind eye on our finances. It can feel so stressful to be in debt or simply not have enough money to pay all of our bills. Yet ignoring it just results in more stress.

I like your broken window analogy. One broken window becomes two broken windows… before we know it we’re in a mess.

Great article Patrenia! Love what you are doing with your blog!

-Susan

]]> By: Patrenia http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2119 Patrenia Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:46:15 +0000 http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/?p=1356#comment-2119 Whoa!!! Thank you so much for sharing that Khaleef. I know it will be a testimony to someone who has a pressing issue that needs to be dealt with now. Whoa!!! Thank you so much for sharing that Khaleef. I know it will be a testimony to someone who has a pressing issue that needs to be dealt with now.

]]> By: Khaleef @ KNS Financial http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/2010/06/21/be-sure-to-check-your-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 Khaleef @ KNS Financial Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:01:01 +0000 http://www.personalfinancenotebook.com/?p=1356#comment-2102 I love this concept and the way that you explained it! Mail was a broken window for me many years ago and because of it, $25 ended up costing me over $10,000! I love this concept and the way that you explained it! Mail was a broken window for me many years ago and because of it, $25 ended up costing me over $10,000!

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