# Hooray!  I'm BROKE!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 23, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757 "2004-02-23T22:22:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757/1 "2004-02-23T22:22:43Z")

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Today I emptied my savings and sent off my last big check to the ^&%& credit card company. No more $80 a month in finance charges! One less monthly bill to fret about!

I had a pretty substantial credit card debt from a time when I was first unemployed and then severely underemployed for about a year and a half. For the last three years I’ve been making a pretty good wage, and I’ve been paying off my debts as fast as I could; my student loans got handled a while back, and I’ve been making serious headway on the credit cards, and today I’m done.

Hooray! I’m broke!

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757/2 "2004-02-23T22:28:36Z")

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I swear, that is one of the best feelings in the world to get a bill paid off. You are one lucky dawg.

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**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757/3 "2004-02-23T22:51:29Z")

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Good for you, **jackelope**!

I’m flat broke AND swimming in debt. ☹

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**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757/4 "2004-02-23T22:58:43Z")

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Congrats **jackelope**!

:::: throw confetti everywhere ::::

I have zero credit card debt. It is nice.

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**Author:** ![Blue\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Blue\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Dragon)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757/5 "2004-02-23T23:00:31Z")

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> [@bittersweet](#):
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> Good for you, **jackelope**!
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> I’m flat broke AND swimming in debt. ☹

Heh…get back to me when you are drowning in debt (like I am). 😛

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-broke/230757/6 "2004-02-23T23:14:09Z")

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I though **jackelope** might have been playing [The Mad Magazine Game](http://www.dantiques.com/images/24000/24602.jpg), the object of which is to be the first player to go broke.