When life takes away your home….go camping

I got tagged by BeingFrugal with the MEME about “when life gives you lemons….”

Well, you know the rest.

I’ll share a little about what it was like losing my house, and what I did to try and make the best of living in my office for two months:

My Lemonade Story (oh, I loved that Lemonade Stand game as a kid!)

I’m an optimist. Sometimes that’s a bad thing, like when I was *optimistic* that I could turn $50,000 into $1 million day trading currencies. That was some bad optimism. But sometimes it’s a good thing.

When my house sold (I did a short sale during the foreclosure process), I didn’t have a place to live. I didn’t have any money. What I did still have was a small office where I had been running my business the previous few years.

Choose your own adventure!

I decided the first night there that this was going to be an adventure (it was), and not a pity party. I slept on a camping pad, on the floor, and really tried to pretend I was in summer camp.

It worked.

I wasn’t miserable. I got a little buffer because I had to go to the gym each morning to shower. I tried to think of it as the dorm experience I never had in college. I had a little shower bag and I would walk to the gym before my employees showed up. I really made the situation into a game. I got caught once (an employee came in early), and I almost thought I was getting arrested once (the SPD is everywhere), but overall I tried to make the best of it.

I slept in my car some nights when I was too tired to make up my bed. And yeah, that wasn’t the most fun, but at least I had somewhere, you know? Many people don’t have an office, or even a car to sleep in each night. Plus, the whole living in my office thing is a pretty darn good entrepreneur story. It will just be allot funnier when I’m actually out of this mess!

I’ll tag: No Debt Plan

Debt is a four letter word

My Debt Blog

LIFE GAVE ME SOME LEMONS – IT’S OK, I MADE DELICIOUS LEMONADE – MEME Rules: * Copy and paste these rules to your blog post. * Link back to person who tagged you. * Write about an incident in your life you first thought was really bad, but ended up being a blessing. * Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. * Let each person you tagged know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. (* And if you want to – link back to this original Lemonade Meme post too.)

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