{"id":36,"date":"2007-11-15T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T06:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-11-15T01:15:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T06:15:25","slug":"stuck-in-the-money-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in the money rut."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am stuck smack in the middle of a money rut. I am starting to get really tired of thinking about my money or personal finance in general. I used to be diligent about keeping track of stuff in Quicken, but I have not updated my file in probably close to a month. I keep an overview by glancing at Yodlee<\/a> or my online banking. I pay my bills and do some little things here or there but big picture stuff is escaping me. <\/p>\n

I think it is a little bit of several factors. Part of it is I have just moved so I had many extra expenses related to that have set me back and money overall on both on a bankroll sense and a monthly outgoing basis is tighter. Another factor is I help my parents who are both older handle their bills and day-to-day financial stuff so I get an extra helping of dealing with the money stuff. It also probably does not help that as a topic I read a lot about personal finance and investing because it can be interesting to me and I probably need to take a little break from some of that reading. Maybe read a novel or do a puzzle, something different!<\/p>\n

I think the biggest factor though is that I am not making the progress towards my financial goals like I want to. My net worth direction is going in the opposite direction that I want it going in. I am not living some high life full of HDTVs and Playstations, overall I am a pretty frugal guy, but past mistakes and family boundary issues have me stuck between that proverbial rock and a hard place that I need to keep working to break out of. I could write a whole slew on how I could blame others particularly on the boundaries issues, but in the end, I am the one<\/strong> who made the decision to say yes when I should not have. <\/p>\n

I will figure my way out of this rut with time, right now I just feel like I’m sitting in the middle of a large financial hole with my little shovel trying to make a little headway and getting nowhere. So I will just have to take a breath, give it some thought and prayer and take another day at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am stuck smack in the middle of a money rut. I am starting to get really tired of thinking about my money or personal finance in general. I used to be diligent about keeping track of stuff in Quicken, but I have not updated my file in probably close to a month. I keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}