Homeowners insurance? Ha Ha Ha they want $5200 for my house for just a year. Insurance is one of the biggest rackets in America.
Like Broken Track said, stay out of debt, and owe no man anything, you will sleep better too.
Absolutely...but I have never seen anything like it. 85% of Americans are BROKE. the vast majority not even having $1000 in the bank, and live paycheck to paycheck...and yet 99% of them defend the way they spend money to the death. I mean to the death. It makes NO SENSE.
I mean if you had a tractor, and it was slip-sliding towards a pond, at some point you would just stop, get off, and reassess the situation. Then, if someone who had been in the same situation as you, explained how they got out, the guy with the precarious tractor would listen so they would not lose their tractor. With money, people do not do that, and wonder why they get in over their heads.
The thing is, every day that people make a payment on a loan, they are getting out of debt. Eventually they will be debt free, but only if they do not get more loans when they pay off the ones they got now!
In the end it comes down to contentment; how content are you? I am content, and do not live my life in fear like insurance companies want you too. "Being a racket" is a huge understatement!