Comments on: Update from Christie & Dean

By: ~K.

~K. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:58:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing Lorna! And way to go!

By: Lorna Lane

Lorna Lane — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:03:03 +0000

Thanks guys!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:11:05 +0000

Lorna: I’m so pleased that everything is working well for you. Yes, that mat leave thing can hit your bank account hard when you don’t have lots of money set aside to take care of it. But you guys really stepped up to the plate (HA!) in coping. Keep up the great work. Happy, happy life. g

By: MCR

MCR — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:19:41 +0000

Lorna – thanks for the update and congrats on turning your finances around!

I also saw Jillian (the “clothing” girl) on Style by Jury as one of the “after” jurors

By: Lorna Lane

Lorna Lane — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:38:08 +0000

Hi Gail…. It’s Lorna & Richard from the “Life in the Fast Lane” episode (you know… marriage, house & baby in a year! Then – another baby!).

Just letting you know things are going well for us. We suffered a financial hit while I was on mat leave as I was unpaid for a portion of it. I tried to be creative and worked 2 jobs from home – one went great, the other I’ve had to take to small claims court to attempt to get my money. Sigh.

However while on leave, I took three courses which have upgraded my salary by $5,000 now that I’m back to work again. It was tough to put the money out for school when things were so tight – but definitely worth it in the long run!

I now have a full-time teaching job in the Falls (no more commuting! full-time work!). Richard got a job much closer to home in Beamsville and this year received a 9% raise – virtually unheard of in the transportation industry.

Now that we have 2 paycheques again we are back on the jars & doing excellent!

We both lost 75 pounds – EACH!!! Yay! The joys of NOT eating out, not living across from a 7-11 and having “snacks”… and a lot less alcohol!

Cooper is 3.5 years old now, fully potty-trained (finally – because diapers are EXPENSIVE!) and has started skating lessons. Piper is now 16 months old, and a total diva… but she is absolutely adorable. Both kids are in daycare & doing great.

Thanks again for everything. You & your crew were fabulous & we had so much FUN with all of you. Take care.

Much love,
Lorna, Richard, Cooper & Piper

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:21:51 +0000

Was that the couple that couldn’t live in a small apartment for a night and wanted a luxury car?? I wonder if she ever realized that you need to pay back what you borrow??

By: Holymotherofgod

Holymotherofgod — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:07:42 +0000

Yno I THINK it was Simone and Frank that I wanted to know what happened to. No offense to Simone but she shocked me especially at the end of the show when they received the $2000 check and were ungrateful for it. Personally if someone gave me 2 grand I would be elated. And apply it to my DEBT lol !! But change takes effort, and effort is duly rewarded, so when you fail at the challenges you pay the piper. Whatever became of these two??

By: Ajana

Ajana — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:09:10 +0000

“If you’ve watched the show and have turned your life around, I’d like you to share it with the community here.”

My “turnaround” is still a work-in-progress. But following Gail’s advice from the programmes and her website, I will be out of debt (highest at US$10k) in a year (reduced from 18 months with lower interest rates) plus I expect to have US$10k in savings/emergency fund by the time I am out of debt. This is from someone who barely made it to the end of month – we don’t call them “magic jars” for nothing!

I would love to hear stories from ‘Gail Graduates’ for inspiration too.

By: dawn

dawn — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:45:44 +0000

I like your show so much, because it speaks to the relationship … which is always affected by the finances. Keep up the terrific work, because obviously with the world economic issues – we need it!!!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:57:32 +0000

awww….our lives are so enriched because of Gail! : )

By: dinah

dinah — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:50:31 +0000

i have always wondered what happened to the couple that moved out of the house and into the apartment and had the garage sale.

i really connected with them and hope they are doing well!

By: Melaniesd

Melaniesd — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:24:44 +0000

Congrats to Christie & Dean on there success! I’m so happy for them. It’s great to hear that they took the skills they learned and rolled with them. Now they have a bright future ahead of them.
*Good luck Dean with your catering business!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:35:23 +0000

My husband and I are big fans of Gail’s – neither one of us was taught correctly about money, and we’ve been trying to retrain our brains to think that talking about money is not scary! We’ve never had giant fights about it, but it’s taken us years to get to be able to talk about money without needing lots of space immediately afterward – my husband would spend hours blowing up things on the Playstation and I would head out for massive walks after we’d talk about money, just to escape from the stress of trying to communicate without a language! But now, thanks to Gail, we’ve finally got a money language – magic jars and all – that seems to somehow take a lot of the stress away! Thanks Gail! Long live Till Debt to Us Part!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:19:48 +0000

Hi Sandra,

Yes it is the same couple, I think their names are Rob and Jillian?
I could be wrong – you know what they were also on another financial help show – Maxed Out and Til Debt Do Us Part and Marriage Under Construction!

Gail you rock!
Keep up the great work you do!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

By: Geeta

Geeta — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:55:45 +0000

Hi Gail
Thank you so much for your response, I know you only answer one question a week and I am glad u picked mine. Updates r very reassuring to someone like us who are just starting to implement changes . V used the jars for the first time last week and guess what? after cutting out spending from about $4000.00 a mnth to $1705.00, v still had approx $ 95.00 left over. V even treated ourselves to dinner and spent $29.00 on takeout for the 5 of us, it was great.
Thank you so much for responding and hopefully in a few mnths I will be able to write with more good news regarding our debt situation.
Happy Thankgiving to you and yr family. God bless