This is our BS1 to BS7 story previously shared in the old forums. I was forced to recreate it from scratch and have taken this opportunity to provide more detail and move the story forward from where it “ended” in the original version.

The purpose of telling our story is to inspire others.

We started our Total Money Make Over with our first budget on December 1, 2008, but I feel like I should provide a little background so you’ll know where we were coming from.

Until 2006, I was working for the same automotive finance company that I had started with out of college in 1991. In August ...