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Just had a life changing win: Yesterday I sold an NFT for about $6k and about half of my $DEGEN for $3700 and I’m now officially able to pay off all my debt 🥹🙏
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I grew up poor and paid my own way through university (with the help of student loans). Moving cities twice and just overall being bad with money back then, I racked up a lot of credit card debt. Eventually it became insurmountable and when I hit 30 I decided to figure it out. I learned to budget, got a better job…
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…and consolidated all my high interest credit card debt into a personal loan. That loan was still at a pretty high rate, cause I had bad credit, so in the pandemic I refinanced for a much lower (floating) floating rate and also took a bit more to create an emergency fund and to help family. As interest rates rose…
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…I found myself wanting to get this thing paid off as fast as possible. But we were in the bear market still and I was dealing with other hurdles that ate up my money (I wrote about them in the November and December issues of my newsletter). To top it off, I got the TIA airdrop but was so broke I rushed to sell…
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Story of my life. You don't bet on dubious things when you know the real value of those $100, $200, $300, but sometimes you lose on the upside. Good on you! Congrats!
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Exactly! And you know, there’s nothing wrong with it either! I wrote on Twitter after TIA skyrocketed: “you can’t stay in the casino unless you have the money to lose” Selling was right for me then. Same for you each time. It’s all good. We get our moment 😌 Thanks for your kind words 💚
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