When life takes away your home….go camping

Posted in my crazy life by debt kid on the April 25th, 2008

When life takes away your home....go campingI 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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  1. Carrie said,

    on April 25th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    I just did a post on my blog on the fabulous jungle tent!


  2. on April 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

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