So we did it. Back in October we went to a Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover live event. We already own the book, had read it, thought about it, put it on the shelf, forgot about it and continued to spend as usual despite a pay-cut and some emergencies that sucked away our savings, ran up our credit card and tapped out our home equity — all the while feeling that, while we had money problem, it would soon right itself. But sitting in this freezing auditorium something clicked. For the first time we could really see that those shapes moving in the weeds just out of sight were in fact cheetahs, they are after us – the debt that we have that is a bit painful at the moment is going to really hurt us if we make the slightest mistake. We absolutely have to pull back from the edge. But there was something else we got out of those five hours on a Saturday afternoon – hope. We have hope that we can actually get out of this as long as we keep the gazelle thing in mind. thus this blog, the name, the “gazelle thing” that has been our touch point and humor for the past month. Every day we need to keep in mind the big question “is this a gazelle thing?”
